Hi,

Right click the taskbar, choose properties. On the Start Menu tab, click
"customize". Enable the personalized menus option to get the condensed menus
you are seeking.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Needy Ned" <Needy Ned@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My start up menus no longer condense to a short list of only the most
> recently used (I use the Classic Windows Startup format). How can I get
> them
> to ndo that again?
>
> Also, whenI go "Start" - "Documents" the list has My Documents and My
> Pictiures at the top. How do I make it so these 2 items no longer appear?