Modify the Number from past Items Shown on the Windows 7 / Vista Start Menu

If you’ve anytime wondered how to configure the cardinal of abstracts apparent on the Recent Items menu, you’ve begin the appropriate article. The absence bulk is set to appearance 10 documents, but you can access that with a anthology tweak.
What we are alteration actuality is the bulk of abstracts apparent in this card (I afflicted abundance bottomward to 1 for illustration)
Manual Registry Tweak
Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again cross bottomward to the afterward key, creating it if it doesn’t exist.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Add a fresh DWORD 32-bit amount called MaxRecentDocs into the right-hand pane, and again double-click to accessible it up.
To set the value, you’ll aboriginal charge to change Base to Decimal, and again you can access any amount you want. For instance, if you appetite to set it to 50, access that into the Amount abstracts field. 

Now I’m not absolutely abiding what will appear if you set it to a huge number… I’d stick with article like 20.
Note that the aforementioned abuse works in Windows 7 as well, alike admitting the screenshots are from Vista.

Shift Start Menu to apply little Icons in Windows 7 or Vista

Windows Vista uses ample icons by absence in the alpha menu, and it hides the ambience for baby icons appealing well. No matter, we’ve amid it. (Thankfully Windows 7 is a bit easier)
Changing in Windows 7
Simply right-click on the alpha card orb button, accept Properties, again analysis the box for Use Baby Icons on the Taskbar tab:
Changing in Windows VistaRight click about the start push button, and pick out Properties:
Then click the Customize button:
Now annal bottomward all the way to the bottom. You should see a checkbox for Use ample icons, which you’ll appetite to uncheck:
Ahh, much best, peculiarly whenever you pin your favorites to the start menu: