Windows XP – State of the Art

When I click my Windows Start menu on the task bar, I mouse
up to Programs and along the way must pass over Documents. 
Over the last few months, when I do that and there are a lot of documents in my Recent
Documents folder, the start menu hangs and I sit there for 30 seconds or
so waiting for Windows to catch up.  Then the menu collapses and I do it again,
with mixed results.

In order to overcome this incredibly irritating behavior, I now keep a batch file
on my desktop that I can double-click anytime I need it.  This is what is in
the batch file.

del “C:\Documents and Settings\dstarr\Recent\*” /Q

I post this to draw attention to the fact that the young padawans of Windows out there
must still care about hacking out a shell script to do something more efficiently
than Windows can.  Amazing, eh?