Start Programs Menu Having Several Menus And Columns?

Mar 14, 2010

When I first installed XP the start programs menu would fly out to the side and have several columns all visible at once and somewhere along the line it got changed so it is a scrolling list now, which is a real pain when you have a long list. Does anyone know how to change it so it flys out to the side with multiple columns instead of the scrolling list?

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