By Diana Huggins

If you have a lot of programs installed, your All Programs menu can get very cluttered. To make things a little more manageable, you can create submenus to organize your programs (same idea as creating subfolders to organize your folders and files). So here is what you have to do:

1. Right click the Start button and click Explore.
2. In the folder hierarchy, click the Program folder. In the right pane you’ll see the shortcuts and subfolders that are currently in your All Programs menu.
3. Right click an area of free space in the right pane, point to New, and click folder.
4. Type in a name for the folder. This is the name of the submenu that will appear on your All Programs menu.
5. Drag the programs you want to appear on the submenu into the folder you just created. More than likely you’ll want to group similar programs.

Now when you open the All Programs menu, a new submenu will appear along with the programs you placed in the folder. If you organize or group your programs appropriately, it should make them easier to find.