You can use this registry tweak to set the start menu to classic style: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] "NoSimpleStartMenu"=dword:00000001 But this disables the possibility to get back to the normal xp start menu. Does anybody know how i can get this done without doing this ? I've looked everywhere but I can't find it