This means that application installers can??™t litter your pinned items list
with unwanted icons, but it also introduces some annoying limitations
for day-to-day use.
For example, if you rename a pinned item, Windows renames the target
file! This means that if you pin Photoshop.exe or diskmgmt.msc??”the
executables for Adobe Photoshop and the Disk Management console
file discussed in Chapter 5, respectively??”and then remove the filename
extensions to pretty up the pinned entries, you??™ll render the programs
inaccessible. To work around this, create shortcuts to these items
somewhere out of the way??”perhaps a subfolder of All Programs, discussed
shortly??”and then pin the shortcuts instead.
Recently used applications
Below the pinned items on the left side is a dynamic list of recently
used programs. The problem with this list is that it is always changing,
making it a poor choice to store shortcuts to programs you need to use
frequently.
To remove the list entirely, right-click an empty area of the Start menu,
select Properties, and turn off the Store and display a list of recently
opened programs option. Or, to change the size of the list, click the
Customize button here, and in the Start menu size box toward the bottom,
adjust the Number of recent programs to display value. (If the section
is grayed out, it??™s because the aforementioned Store and display
option is turned off.)
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All Programs
At the very bottom of the left column is a single entry, All Programs,
which contains the icons for the applications you??™ve installed on your
PC, and is the most customizable area of the Start menu.
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