The Old New Thing

What determines which programs show up on the front page of the Windows XP Start menu?

June 11, 2007 Jun 11, 2007 06/11/07

Raymond Chen

The principle is that programs you've run most often recently are the ones that show up on the front page of the Start menu. At least, that's what we started with, but it turns out that some fine-tuning was needed in order to get the experience to be more "natural". The basic rule is that each time you launch a program, it "earns a point", ...