If you have WinXP, then chances are you have a list of your top 10 (depending on your settings) programs when you click on your start menu...

Mine are:

WinRAR
Calculator
BitComet
Excel
3DS Max 7
iMesh 5
Nero StartSmart
Word
Minesweeper
Disk Cleanup

and the programs I have as "stickies" at the top of the start menu are:

CuteFTP
Firefox
Notepad
Photoshop CS2

What are everyone else's?

I don't have that.....howd'ya do it? :D

Notepad
Calculator
Word
LimeWire
Minesweeper (my roommate got me addicted recently...)
Excel
Paint
PowerPoint
TagScanner
West Point Bridge Designer (sort of geeky program I was messing around with...)

but those aren't representative of what I use most often. I open Firefox and AIM once whenever I turn the computer on and leave them open while my computer is on (which is usually for a week or more, then I'll shut it down overnight to let it cool off and turn it back on and keep it on again)

The things i first install on a clean OS install are:

SmartFTP
Putty
Firefox
Winamp
Syn Text Editor
Flash Mx/MX 2004
Photoshop
Irfanview
mIRC
Office

i don't have winXP (haha yugh!) but here are my 10 most used programs:

BitTorrent
MSN
Photoshop CS
Illustrator CS
ImageReady CS
Texteditor
iTunes
Safari
VLC
Fetch 4.0.3

VLC


I forgot that one :)
I love VLC, it just plays everything :P

I don't have WinXP, but here's what I have in my dock :P

Safari
Entourage
iTunes
Word
Adium
TextEdit
Photoshop
LiveJournal
Limewire
Fetch

My top 10:
Firefox
Winamp
CCleaner
7-Zip
Neoshooter
Notepad
WordPad
Rainlender
Paint Shop Pro 8
BitComet

I only have 5 ;)

PSP8
Microsoft Works Word Processor
Editpad
Euchre
Minewseeper (kind of addicted)

and then Internet Explorer and Outlook Express are "stuck" at the top!

How do i find these out?

For those of you who don't have WinXP, I'm not sure if you have the option to show your most used programs in your start menu... If you do have WinXP, but you don't have that, this is how you turn it on:

-Right click on the taskbar or the start button.
-Go to Properties and choose the Start Menu tab.
-Make sure you have Start Menu selected and not Classic Start Menu.
-If you click on the Customize button next to the Start Menu option, you can set how many items to show.

i have these:

Notepad
SmartFTP
Incredimail
Yahoo! Messenger
Launch Ad Muncher
GIMP2
Minesweeper

and in sticky:

Internet Explorer
E-mail Hotmail
Internet Call Manager
My Computer
MSN Messenger 7.0

i have a shared computer blah i hate it ;)

iTunes
PSP 8
PS 7
Notepad
Limewire
WS FTP
Calculater
MS Word
Solitaire

In sticky I currently just have Mozilla Firefox, but if I've been playing games (Myst, FF, etc..) then they're usually up there too.

Stickies:

-FireFox
-Thunderbird
-Aim BETA
-Media Center

Programs:

-Windows Media Player
-Photoshop
-Illustrator
-Notepad
-Microsoft Word
-Microsoft PowerPoint
-Microsoft Exel
-SmartFTP
-SpyBot
-Adaware

I only have 6:

Microsoft Word
Paint Shop Pro7
WS_FTP95
Notepad
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 (my dad's :))
Macromedia Flash MX 2004

My stickies:
Internet Explorer
Microsoft Outlook (again, this is my dad's...)

<edit> I just noticed I've broken 600 posts :D :lol: </edit>

Firefox
Winamp
AOL Instant Messenger
Ares
Microsoft Word
Notepad
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop Pro
Itunes
McAfee

i made it so that all of mine are stuck at the top.. i dont like having that little line, it throws me off :P

top ten:

Notepad
Itunes
Paint
Netstorm
Firefox
Photoshop
limewire
hypercam
nero smart
wintaks

Stickies:


Firefox
Thunderbird
Microsoft Office Word
Software Repair Wizard
RegCleaner
Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9
Spybot- Search and Destroy


Programs:


Notepad
Internet Explorer
Ad-Aware SE Plus
HTML-kit
SBC Yahoo! Online Protection
iTunes
dtNotes

mine are:
Stickies
Dreamweaver 8
Fireworks 8
Flash 8
Director 8
iTunes
Bearshare
Internet explorer
Notepad
Programs
Fireworks 8
Flash 8
PHP expert editor
Internet Explorer
and im not sure what else

^gosh, you were only supposed to put 10!!!!!111 :grouch:



jk, iSs k0o' :P

Mine are

Microsoft Excel
Adobe Photoshop 7.0
FTP Surfer
Microsoft Word
WinRAR
Notepad

The ones at the top for me are

Profile Manager (for thunderbird)
Mozilla Firefox
Microsoft FrontPage
Windows Media Player

I have(in order from top to bottom)
~MGI PhotoSuite8.1
~HipHop eJay-DJ3
~WMA
~Wordpad
~Tour WindowsXP**
~Command Prompt**

**i was bored so i was messing about with my comp

and my stickies are:
~Outlook Express
~Paint
~NotePad
~I.E 6.0

There aren't all my programmes but I like having them nice and small-er so I delete whenever my sister makes Minesweeper sticky :stickout:

Stickies
Internet Explorer
Email, Netscape - for some weird reason, we never use Netscape but for some reason it's set to default!

Top 10
Outlook Express
MSN Messenger 7.0
Windows Messenger
Notepad
Minesweeper
Microsoft Photo Editor

Stickies (obviously i've never changed these lol)

Internet explorer
Hotmail
Launch Internet explorer

Programs (set to display 8)
notepad
psp9
winrar
azureus
conquercam
insane iqarium
big kahuna reef
real player

Stickies (obviously i've never changed these lol)

Neither have I :stickout:
except I have two.. :confusion

How do I add the stickies? Me canna work it out...

Stickies:
Outlook Express
IE

Programs:
Word
Paint
Photo Impression
Homeschool tracker
World Book
Notepad

(Starlet, I think you can change the stickies by dragging the programs there, and delete them by right clicking)

When I first saw this, I thought it was the top ten programs of all time. lol, I was really far off. Well, now that I understand....

Me:

Internet (Mozilla Firefox)
E-mail
Microsoft Word
Active Desktop Calander
Paint Shop Pro 7
The Sims 2
OpenOffice.org Writer
RealPlayer

How do you guys get more than eight? Do you use a different style for the task bar or something? :confused:

How do you guys get more than eight? Do you use a different style for the task bar or something? :confused:
Go to Start->Control Panel->Appearance and Themes->Taskbar and Start Menu-> then a window should come up with two tabs, Taskbar and Start Menu, select Start Menu, then with Start Menu (not Classic Start Menu) checked, click on Customize, then a window should come up with two tabs, General and Advanced. In General is an option called Programs, and it should let you choose the number of programs (not stickies, though) you want to display in the Start Menu.

How do I add the stickies? Me canna work it out...

Or you can just right-click on the programs you want stickied and select "Pin to Start Menu".

Sticky:
Internet (IE)
Email (hotmail)
Paint
Windows Media Player.

Programs:
Notepad
MSN Messenger 7.5
Internet (FF)
The Sims Superstar
Microsoft Word
Calculator

Go to Start->Control Panel->Appearance and Themes->Taskbar and Start Menu->

Or you can just right click the start button and go to properties.

I don't think my list is really accurate, but oh well.

iTunes
Internet Explorer
LimeWire pro
Microsoft Powerpoint
Open Document
Notepad
Paint
Spybot - Search and Destroy
Acrobat Reader 5.0
FileZilla Server Interface

I usually only have 6 showing at once though. Are you sure these aren't most recently used programs? I've only used a lot of these programs a few times.

Stickies:
Mozilla firefox
MSN Messenger

I have pinned:

Cool Edit 2000
Gimp
Inkscape (since the time I made my last layout which was in spring..)
MSN Messenger
Nero StartSmart
Notepad
SmartFTP
MS Word
My folder for my homepage files
Another folder for music I recorded from old tapes to make it digital

I also tend to use quick launch which has:

Show desktop
Opera
IE
Firefox
MSN Messenger (again? should take it off of either place)
Winamp
Windows Media Player
Thunderbird

Yes I know I have more than ten and not all aren't even programs, but I just never liked Start Menu with top ten.

I now know how to add/change the stickies, thanks :)