Wider Windows 7's Start Menu?

[Ant]

Hello.

Some of my Start Menu shortcuts' texts are long (wide) that get cropped
off. Windows XP and earlier autoresized their width. Is there a way to
do this for W7 (Vista has the same problem)?

Thank you in advance.
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[Ant]

Example: http://i.imgur.com/o5R64YR.png

Hello.

Some of my Start Menu shortcuts' texts are long (wide) that get cropped
off. Windows XP and earlier autoresized their width. Is there a way to
do this for W7 (Vista has the same problem)?

Thank you in advance.

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[Gene E. Bloch]

Do you really care?

If so shorten the long ones, or even rearrange their text so the part
you want to see is on the left.

 

[JJ]

Example: http://i.imgur.com/o5R64YR.png

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Start Menu items are not contained in a popup
menu, they are in a tree view control. You can scroll the content
horizontally like in standard tree view controls by pressing CTRL-LEFT or
CTRL+RIGHT. The trick is that, you can only do it if the tree view control
is focused. You can focus it by pressing SHIFT-TAB when the current focus is
at the search edit box.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Start Menu items are not contained in a popup
menu, they are in a tree view control. You can scroll the content
horizontally like in standard tree view controls by pressing CTRL-LEFT or
CTRL+RIGHT. The trick is that, you can only do it if the tree view control
is focused. You can focus it by pressing SHIFT-TAB when the current focus is
at the search edit box.

Thanks - I never knew that.

But I still don't need to see the whole item, which seems to be an area
where Ant and I differ

In truth, I rarely look at the tree view anyway. I just type a few
letters in the search box - but only when I remember the name of what
I'm looking for.