Customizing Your Windows 7 Start Menu

July 26, 2010

Customizing Your Windows 7 Start Menu

By Dave Taylor

When I click "Start" to open the menu window in Microsoft Windows 7, the "Search" choice (above recent items) is missing. How can I add it to my start menu?

Dave's Answer:

As Microsoft Windows has evolved over the years, the Start menu has become quite the jack-of-all-trades, able to leap tall buildings in a single bou- oh, uhm, well, maybe it can't quite do that, but the Win7 Start menu sure has a lot of power and capabilities. And a lot more customization options that the majority of users realize.

Your question opens up this Pandora's box and once we look at the settings and configuration options for the Start menu, you'll see there are lots of ways to tweak and customize it.

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