Windows 7: Jump Lists in the main menu

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Windows

(TL;DR - questions below.)

For a long time, I kept a separate hierarchy of shortcuts at the root of the main menu for quick access. In the "Programming" item, Visual Studio, PhpStorm, etc. immediately lay; in the "Internet" were browsers, rocking chairs, etc. And so on, just about a dozen categories. I want to do the same in Windows 7, but now you can't attach folders to the root menu; the “All Programs” item has been hopelessly littered with installers from time immemorial, who do not ask where to put shortcuts; only standard “libraries” can be put in the right half of the menu, and an additional level of hierarchy appears in them.

I found a frivolous German-made Jumplist Launcher that allows you to build your own jump-lists and attach them to the taskbar or to the main menu, but this was a glitch for the company presentation: for individual lists, you need to make separate copies of the program, shortcuts are dragged into the program every other time, icons are extracted and displayed crooked etc. Fix will not work, the sorts are closed.

I don’t want to completely abandon the baubles of the main menu of Windows 7 in favor of the “classic shell”. A pinned Visual Studio with a list of recently opened projects is handy. Categories in jumplists are handy.

Question #1: Is Jumplist Launcher the only program that allows you to build jump-lists in the root of the main menu, or is there a normal software?

Question #2:In light of the imminent release of Windows 8, does it make sense to bother? All the same, the main menu is being killed, and only the nauseatingly-metroshny launch screen will remain - why rock the boat.

Answer 1

I think you're on the outdated path.
With Windows 7, you can press the Win button and enter the first couple of letters of the program name / shortcut, then press Enter. From that moment on, All Programs and all sorts of shortcut managers became irrelevant: everything that was most in demand was nailed to the Taskbar, the rest was searched.

Answer 2

Personally, I found the following solution in the seven - I left Start and made an additional panel on the task bar.
Categorization is set by regular folders, with copying labels - no problem ;).

Answer 3

And you do not create a separate hierarchy, but scatter into thematic folders what the installers created.

Answer 4

> what to rock
the boat so what is it to you at all? Does it come out a little? Put a 9-ku, it will already be "licked". True, looking at the vector of design changes, her design will, I feel, be text :)