The Old New Thing

"Super" watch, episode 2

June 15, 2007 Jun 15, 2007 06/15/07

Raymond Chen

Not just "super exciting" but "super-super-exciting". (But at least he's not super super super excited.) I don't consider this super encouraging. Episode 1...

What other programs are filtered from the Start menu's list of frequently-used programs?

June 15, 2007 Jun 15, 2007 06/15/07

Raymond Chen

We already saw that programs in the pin list are pruned from the most-frequently-used programs list because they would be redundant. Another fine-tuning rule was introduced after the initial explorations with the new Windows XP Start menu: Programs with specific "noise" names are removed from consideration. Many "noise" programs were ...