winows being helpful- and how to prevent it.

[incitatus]

In the varies menus in windows, word etc. my computer has a habit of only showing the ten or so most recently used options. i.e. in start-programs it will only show ten out of the fifty or so bits of stuff i have on there. How can i persuade it that this irritates me beyond words and that i ALWAYS want to see ALL of the options?

[smorodina]

Right click on the taskbar at the bottom (usually) of the screen and select 'properties'. Untick 'Use Personalized Menus'. In Word go to 'Tools' - 'Customize' - 'Options'. Untick 'Menus show recently used commands first'. I found this extremely annoying too, and it took me ages to figure out how to stop it.