The Start Menu and why it won't stay organized.

I am a bit OCD about keeping my Desktop and Start Menu organized, bookmarks too (which is now much easier since I discovered Foxmarks six months ago) but that is another story. This is about the Start Menu. Even in the new Vista Start Menu (which I think I am about to switch back to the Windows 2000 Classic menu) Apps that upgrade themselves, STILL insist on installing themselves in the root every time there is an upgrade. I know that some installers let you choose where to put the links (unfortunately very few developers use this feature), but can't Windows remember where you moved an application in the Start Menu? It isn't rocket science, but even in Vista there isn't even hooks written for this -- oh thats right we are all supposed to be using the Search Bar, which works Ok sometimes. Except I hate the fact that I can't have it just index the Start Menu (like Launchy does), I have to turn it on (and have my hard drive seem to be always spinning away and chewing up CPU and resources) or turn it off completely. Another quick bitch about installers, is Apple and its #@$!@ iTunes (which if Winamp had half decent support for podcasts I wouldn't need anymore, cause really the new Winamp 5.5 fixed a ton of things that had been bugging me for years) installer which seems to be bitching at me every week to upgrade iTunes. The problem being, iTunes doesn't create a real shortcut. It creates some daemon child shortcut that doesn't point to the executable and is wrong every time you update iTunes. So the horrible step is upgrade iTunes, delete old shortcuts on the taskbar and the Start Menu, move iTunes into the place on the start menu I want it and then create the taskbar link, YUCK!

Anyhow, I am away until next week, more rants and complaints then...