![]() Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 replaced the Program Manager with the desktop and Start menu. ![]() It lacked the ability to nest groups within other groups. Program Manager consisted of a simple multiple document interface (MDI) which allowed users to open separate "program groups" and then execute the shortcuts to programs contained within. It was made to overcome the shortcomings of Program Manager in previous operating systems. The Start menu first appeared in Windows 95. ![]() In Microsoft Windows, the Start menu in some form appears in Windows 9x, Windows NT 4.0 and all subsequent versions in the Windows NT family, as well as Windows CE, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone. Until Windows Vista, the Start menu was constantly expanded across the screen as the user navigated through its cascading sub-menus. Windows XP's Start menu was expanded to encompass various My Documents folders (including My Music and My Pictures), and transplanted other items like My Computer and My Network Places from the Windows desktop. Later enhancements via Windows Desktop Update included access to special folders such as "My Documents" and "Favorites" (browser bookmarks). Traditionally, the Start menu provided a customizable nested list of programs for the user to launch, as well as a list of most recently opened documents, a way to find files and obtain assistance, and access to the system settings. It has been co-opted by some operating systems (like ReactOS) and Linux desktop environments for providing a more Windows-like experience, and as such is, for example, present in KDE, with the name of Kickoff Application Launcher, and on Xfce with the name of Whisker Menu. The Start menu was renamed Start screen in Windows 8, before returning to its original name with Windows 10. The Start menu, and the Taskbar on which it appears, were created and named in 1993 by Daniel Oran, a program manager at Microsoft who had previously collaborated on Great ape language research with the behavioral psychologist B.F. The Start menu is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, providing a means of opening programs and performing other functions in the Windows shell. Recent items are also used to populate the Microsoft applications Jump Lists.Graphical user interface element included in Microsoft Windows since Windows 95 Windows is also using this list to populate the Recent Places virtual folder found in Explorer left pane. The Recent Folders menu includes only folder items from this list and the Recent Files includes the rest of it. This Windows system folder lists the files and folders recently accessed by the user. ![]() Quick Access Popup Recent folders and Recent files are taken from the Windows virtual folder Recent items ( C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent or, using the appdata variable, %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent). The Recent folders and Recent files menus list the recent places or documents memorized by Windows. An option in the Menu tab of the Options window determines the number of items displayed in these menus (default is 10).
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