The Old New Thing

What causes a program to be marked as “new” on the Start menu?

November 24, 2005 Nov 24, 2005 11/24/05

Raymond Chen

One of the features new in the Windows XP Start menu is that "newly-installed" programs are highlighted. Before discussing the rules, a quick backgrounder on why the feature exists at all. Research revealed that one of the tasks people had trouble with was installing a new program and running it. The step that the "new programs" feature...