Please make the Start menu resizable
Although I do NOT want a return to the classic Start menu, I would very much like to be able to resize the W7 Start menu, simply to reduce the amount of scrolling required in the All Programs section. Vertical resizing would be wonderful and much appreciated. Horizontal resizing would be handy to reduce horizontal scrolling in deeply nested folders. I suggest resizing would be done by dragging the upper and lower borders, much like any other window, and that the size and position would then be remembered. I know that the Start menu CAN resize, because it does so automatically if enough programs are "pinned" in the upper left section. My suggestion is simply to put this under user control.
February 4th, 2009 5:46pm

If you customize the start menu and increase the "number of recent programs to display", the start menu resizes accordingly.However, the setting maxes out at 30, which is insufficient. (There's probably a registry setting that can be tweaked to increase the limit.)
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February 4th, 2009 7:53pm

Gary02139 said: If you customize the start menu and increase the "number of recent programs to display", the start menu resizes accordingly. Actually, I really hate having recent programs displayed, and always set it to zero.But yes, that would be another way of forcing the Start menu to be bigger. Personally I just want to resize it myself.
February 4th, 2009 9:25pm

You're right. The two settings should be independent.
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February 5th, 2009 11:12pm

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