Too many clicks spoil the soup

27th November 2000

Coming from the "Separate But Equal" Department, Lockergnomie Steven Groginsky churns out yet another interesting tip for the rest of us. The Start Menu was designed to help keep your Windows activities running smoothly. However, when you crowd it with dozens of different folders, productivity will grind to a halt. If it takes longer than three seconds to find the appropriate icon(s) in your Start Menu hierarchy, consider whittling the primaries down to ten (or less). Can't sacrifice a folder or two? Too many clicks spoil the soup, ya know. Fine. At least create a few 'dividing' folders to clarify the chaos. Name each one with a different number of dash characters. Don't put anything in them and they'll remain nothing more than simple lines. That's the idea.