How do I expand my drives in the 'Start' menu?

[JennEmile]

The picture asks it best. I want to know if there is a setting in XP that I am not locating, OR, a registry tweak for expanding the drives when I go to Start>My Computer. :mellow

[ATLien]

Originally posted by JennEmile
The picture asks it best. I want to know if there is a setting in XP that I am not locating, OR, a registry tweak for expanding the drives when I go to Start>My Computer. :mellow
You can go down to taskbar properties, then go to start menu tab and hit the customize button, and do whatever you want to do, to the different icons you have

[JennEmile]

Originally posted by ATLien
You can go down to taskbar properties, then go to start menu tab and hit the customize button, and do whatever you want to do, to the different icons you have

I know about that. I want to expand my drives. I can only expand out to my drives but not any further. There is no option that I see for 'menu-izing' the drives.

[ATLien]

Don't know if you can do a drive like that in the Start menu, i know you can do folders like that. You probably have to use something like Tweak XP, or X-teq to customize it. Sorry

[hawkburn]

OK I figured out how to do it with the traditional start menu, not XP menu. Right click on your taskbar, > Properties>Start Menu tab>Classic Start Menu> Advanced>Drag the My Computer icon to the new Explorer window>Try the start menu, and it should look like the picture.

Please forgive my crappy graphic editing: its not a specialty of mine.

[Sk8er Boi]

I'm not really sure if you can do it from the start menu but if you want you can make a new toolbar and use it from there.

[JennEmile]

Originally posted by Sk8er Boi
I'm not really sure if you can do it from the start menu but if you want you can make a new toolbar and use it from there.

Oh Yea! forgot about that one. I do want to keep my XP menu...not the classic. I also try to keep my taskbar clean. But I'm going to do that until I find the tweak. Thanks for the suggestions so far. Still searching for an answer though. Tried going to Windows Registry guide. They have something there that may have to do with this...but it's not very detailed. I also want to stay away from tweak programs...I like to find the manual tweak. :mellow


Picky, picky, picky...

[The Gauge]

Right click on the Taskbar and activate the toolbar called Desktop.

You'll see your desktop icons appear on the right-hand side of your task icons and it looks ugly.

However, grab the desktop toolbar handle and drag it carefully as far left as you can and you'll see it hop over to the left hand side of your taskbar icons.

Then, grab the task icons handle and move it leftwards. Eventually instead of showing all your desktop icons along the bottom, the toolbar will scrunch up and a weeny set of arrows will appear. You can then click on the arrows and watch as your menus unfold. Always good to lock the taskbar if you can.

The suggestion mentioned in the previous post by Hawkburn does work but won't allow you to double click and open a folder, although you can run files.

This is the only way I've been able to do it successfully without resorting to a 3rd party app.

Sorry if my instructions are crap. See screenshot for how it looks and I'm sure you'll know what to do.