Features
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Popularity:
#16 in Desktop Customization (out of 4174 products)
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License:
Free
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Editor's Rating:
Not rated
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
2,833
- Requirements:
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003 Server
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
November 28, 2005
Publisher's description of Start Menu Cleaner
If your Start Menu a mess and has old shortcuts on your Start Menu left behind from Un-installs gone wrong, Start Menu Cleaner can help you. It's a simple little program that looks at all the shortcuts in your Start Menu to see if they work. It then gives you the option to delete dead shortcuts, leaving you with a squeaky clean Start Menu.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.8 stars out of 4 votes
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Version: Start Menu Cleaner 1
Pros: Free. Simple and straightforward.
Cons: It is buggy. Apparently it cannot handle special shortcuts such as those of Microsoft Office or invalid shortcuts. When it finds one, it stops scanning, leaving the task unfinished.
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Version: Start Menu Cleaner 1
"Didn't do $#!T.End of story."
Pros: Simple, no installing, just run the exe on the spot.
Cons: It didn't do anything. I have lots of leftover invalid shortcuts (windows brings up the familiar "Windows is searching for whatever.exe")from lot's of uninstalling and it missed 100% of them. It did, however, detect one empty folder but that was it. Whopee!
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Version: Start Menu Cleaner 1
Cons: I often move program shortcuts in the startmenu to more suitable named folders.
When uninstalling programs, these shortcuts remain, because the uninstall program cannot find them. So Start Menu Cleaner could remove them automatically, but it did not. so I still have to clean up manually.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Start Menu Cleaner 1
"Look at this before the more popular items..."
Pros: This application is simple (though it requires you have .Net framework installed and updated), and it gets the job done. It does not overlook any positives and you can ask it to prompt before it cleans. When working on users' workstations with sloppy start menus (we all know them), this application will save quite a bit of time and afford you the ability to do a more professional job with their system.
Cons: It's easy. Too easy. A little configurability would have been nice. Then again, there isn't much that needs to be configured.
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