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So MS has done something to the programs folders at last huh?
You know, Games is totally out of place in the Vista Start Menu:
Documents (files) Pictures and Videos (files) Games (programs)
Hey MS! Why didn't you go on!!!!???? You should've made:
Games (programs) Office Productivity (programs) Educational Reference (programs) Creativity (programs) etc...
So that we can finally ditch the 20 year-old folder system for grouping program shortcuts!
You see the benefits of the Games folder... ALL GAMES IN ONE PLACE, isn't that neat and simple? I'm sure you didn't miss the days going through Start > All Programs > EA Games > Command & Conquer > Command & Conquer Generals...
Now MS do us a favor, in Windows Vienna or whatever, next time, force all software publishers ISVs to adhere to CATEGORIES, plain and simple... 180 million Windows users in the universe will thank you for that, I guarantee...

Nicholas, could you please correct your system clock, you appear to be in last week.
-- </Slugsie> <Nicholas> wrote in message

You do realize that for the last "20 years" you could have been specifying your own folder to place the games into like "c:\Games" or something when you install the games? :)
<Nicholas> wrote in message

So MS has done something to the programs folders at last huh?
You know, Games is totally out of place in the Vista Start Menu:
Documents (files) Pictures and Videos (files) Games (programs)
Hey MS! Why didn't you go on!!!!???? You should've made:
Games (programs) Office Productivity (programs) Educational Reference (programs) Creativity (programs) etc...
So that we can finally ditch the 20 year-old folder system for grouping program shortcuts!
You see the benefits of the Games folder... ALL GAMES IN ONE PLACE, isn't that neat and simple? I'm sure you didn't miss the days going through Start > All Programs > EA Games > Command & Conquer > Command & Conquer Generals...
Now MS do us a favor, in Windows Vienna or whatever, next time, force all software publishers ISVs to adhere to CATEGORIES, plain and simple... 180 million Windows users in the universe will thank you for that, I guarantee...

"You do realize that for the last "20 years" you could have been specifying your own folder to place the games into like "c:\Games" or something when you install the games? :)"
Yes, but that'll be manual and tedious after every install/uninstall/repair, etc. I prefer automatic.
-- Nicholas...
"Overclock Your Life, Then The World"

I have always had both the Start Menu and the actual locations categorized like that, and kept copying the Start Menu over across Windows installations.
In my case, the categories are;
Accessories (everyday tools & applets, further subcategorized into Communications, System Tools, Multimedia etc.) Emulation (my hefty collection of emulators and related stuff) Games Lab (development tools) Workshop ("productivity" apps, like Office, CorelDraw etc.)
anything transcendental, like Encarta, the Command Prompt, and so on gets to stay on the root :)
<Nicholas> wrote in message

So MS has done something to the programs folders at last huh?
You know, Games is totally out of place in the Vista Start Menu:
Documents (files) Pictures and Videos (files) Games (programs)
Hey MS! Why didn't you go on!!!!???? You should've made:
Games (programs) Office Productivity (programs) Educational Reference (programs) Creativity (programs) etc...
So that we can finally ditch the 20 year-old folder system for grouping program shortcuts!
You see the benefits of the Games folder... ALL GAMES IN ONE PLACE, isn't that neat and simple? I'm sure you didn't miss the days going through Start > All Programs > EA Games > Command & Conquer > Command & Conquer Generals...
Now MS do us a favor, in Windows Vienna or whatever, next time, force all software publishers ISVs to adhere to CATEGORIES, plain and simple... 180 million Windows users in the universe will thank you for that, I guarantee...

I have always had both the Start Menu and the actual locations categorized like that, and kept copying the Start Menu over across Windows installations.
In my case, the categories are;
Accessories (everyday tools & applets, further subcategorized into Communications, System Tools, Multimedia etc.) Emulation (my hefty collection of emulators and related stuff) Games Lab (development tools) Workshop ("productivity" apps, like Office, CorelDraw etc.)
anything transcendental, like Encarta, the Command Prompt, and so on gets to stay on the root :)
<Nicholas> wrote in message

So MS has done something to the programs folders at last huh?
You know, Games is totally out of place in the Vista Start Menu:
Documents (files) Pictures and Videos (files) Games (programs)
Hey MS! Why didn't you go on!!!!???? You should've made:
Games (programs) Office Productivity (programs) Educational Reference (programs) Creativity (programs) etc...
So that we can finally ditch the 20 year-old folder system for grouping program shortcuts!
You see the benefits of the Games folder... ALL GAMES IN ONE PLACE, isn't that neat and simple? I'm sure you didn't miss the days going through Start > All Programs > EA Games > Command & Conquer > Command & Conquer Generals...
Now MS do us a favor, in Windows Vienna or whatever, next time, force all software publishers ISVs to adhere to CATEGORIES, plain and simple... 180 million Windows users in the universe will thank you for that, I guarantee...

"I have always had both the Start Menu and the actual locations categorized like that, and kept copying the Start Menu over across Windows installations.
In my case, the categories are;
Accessories (everyday tools & applets, further subcategorized into Communications, System Tools, Multimedia etc.) Emulation (my hefty collection of emulators and related stuff) Games Lab (development tools) Workshop ("productivity" apps, like Office, CorelDraw etc.)
anything transcendental, like Encarta, the Command Prompt, and so on gets to stay on the root :)"
Yes, that's great! But it would be even better if MS forces all ISV to adhere to some common "UI management" sense.
Regards
-- Nicholas...
"Overclock Your Life, Then The World"

One of the main resons "games" has now been separated in the start menu is due to the new focus on parental controls within vista. When a game is installed its ELSPA rating is retrieved and logged with the game, a shortcut is placed in the game folder along with the rating, a proper boxshot, and links to support info for that game.
Parents can now use parental controls built into vista to limit children to playing games on or below a certain ELSPA rating giving them more control on what their kids are subjected to. There is also a set of benchmarking tools that have shortcuts in that folder to allow people to ensure they can run the game before buying (even more important in the UK now all game retailers have stopped takign returns from ppl who didnt check their spec before buying!)
Of course this sort of functionality is not required for other types of applications such as ur word processing and ultities etc. It is part of MS's focus to make the PC a 'one stop shop' this part allows the pc to run almost as simply as a games console.
HTH
Ben "Adahn" wrote in message

I have always had both the Start Menu and the actual locations categorized like that, and kept copying the Start Menu over across Windows installations.
In my case, the categories are;
Accessories (everyday tools & applets, further subcategorized into Communications, System Tools, Multimedia etc.) Emulation (my hefty collection of emulators and related stuff) Games Lab (development tools) Workshop ("productivity" apps, like Office, CorelDraw etc.)
anything transcendental, like Encarta, the Command Prompt, and so on gets to stay on the root :)
Nicholas> wrote in message So MS has done something to the programs folders at last huh?
You know, Games is totally out of place in the Vista Start Menu:
Documents (files) Pictures and Videos (files) Games (programs)
Hey MS! Why didn't you go on!!!!???? You should've made:
Games (programs) Office Productivity (programs) Educational Reference (programs) Creativity (programs) etc...
So that we can finally ditch the 20 year-old folder system for grouping program shortcuts!
You see the benefits of the Games folder... ALL GAMES IN ONE PLACE, isn't that neat and simple? I'm sure you didn't miss the days going through Start > All Programs > EA Games > Command & Conquer > Command & Conquer Generals...
Now MS do us a favor, in Windows Vienna or whatever, next time, force all software publishers ISVs to adhere to CATEGORIES, plain and simple... 180 million Windows users in the universe will thank you for that, I guarantee...