Good stuff here...

If, like me, you've used Pegtop's PStart to provide you with a portable shortcut engine for your favourite portable apps, you might find something else you like on their website.

Recently, I rediscovered PStart's power as a replacement for the clutter of the Windows Start Menu. No matter what you do, you never seem to be able to keep it all that tidy for long. Either you have a huge flat menu that sprawls all over the desktop, or you painstakingly set up a multi-tier hierarchy of menus, sub-menus and sub-sub-menus that becomes a nightmare to navigate.

Now, you can forget about all that.

PStart's Items tab allows you to add your very favourite shortcuts - nothing remarkable there, you've already got your Quick Start - but the Search tab allows you to search for an application shortcut that is either contained within PStart, or in the Windows Start Menu. And it does it very quickly, right before your eyes, even as you type.

Have a look on Pegtop's site for a collection of simple little applications that just work, can be installed on a USB key or your PC, and are full of little surprises. They have some great screensavers too.