You could drag shortcuts to any folder, name it, exchange any icon for it,
and drag the folder onto the start menu, or while the Start Menu is a custom
and a concept in space on the Windows desktop, you could easily do the same
in one folder composed of folders in those categories on the desktop.

We have several threads on organizing programs, but you won't be able to
hack/change the way the Vista Start menu operates, thanks to the tin ears on
the shell team at Redmond.

They even had Lili Cheng, an architect, moved from MSFT Research along with
some of her team, --what Lili did for over a year at Vista is a great
question. What LIli was thinking when she did it is another. What Lili
thinks when she clicks that Start Button is an even better one.

It is pathetic and totally lacking in imagination and resource the way they
rigidly locked in the Vista start menu.

CH

"Pat" <peejayw@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
news:8EB85999-14F8-4F05-A2CB-9C66062FB66A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> In Start Menu, how can I create common folders like Graphics, Photo,
> Sound, Utilities etc and then place programs into those folders to make it
> easy to find the app I want to start?
> Thanks
> Pat[/color]