On Sun, 7 Feb 2021 at 12:48:24, OhMy wrote (my responses
usually follow points raised):
Stuck on Win XP Pro. Hooray !

I will NOT upgrade as I am 78 yo and am not interested in a learning
curve of such significance as Window Tension.

I know what you mean. I was in a similar position a few years ago, and
am beginning to feel similar now with Windows 7.

I use Classic Shell with 7 - which makes it look how XP did to quite a
large extent. (In fact I have it look not dissimilar to how '9x did -
for example, my windows have square corners, and the minimise,
maximise/restore, and close buttons are the same size and colour.) There
are a couple of other shells (though I've seen quite a few saying
Classic works well enough on 10).

My XP Pro laptop is working just fine so why change ? Do not bother to
answer because I simply do not care.

I fear more and more web pages will only work with browser versions that
won't work on XP (or, later, 7). I know the temptation is to say "I'll
never visit those web pages", but you'll have to eventually, or at least
your choice will shrink _and_ you'll spend longer and longer on hold,
often only to end up speaking to someone who cannot _understand_ the
concept of someone who hasn't got a smartphone.

My problem is as follows.
1) the start menu is too big and off the screen to the right. So I
cannot find or select of drag-drop anything over there.

2) my desktop is totally full of icons.

As Mayayana and gfretwell have said, you would probably benefit from
making some (more) subfolders in your start menu and desktop. My start
menu has subfolders for disc, genealogy, images, internet, sound&video,
registry, hardware, PDF, ...; yours will vary. (In general, I make a
subfolder if I have more than x similar shortcuts; what x is, is up to
you.) You will be irritated that - even though you're the only user -
there will be a hierarchy for you and for all users - but you can beat
that into submission easily enough.

(For the desktop, I find it less useful; although I too have lots of
icons, I mostly only use the ones around the edge anyway [I _don't_
operate most windows maximised], as most of the time I can't see others.
But each to his own.)

I just now added MyPal browser and it installed just fine and i ran it
an check some of my websites and it seems to be now maybe my favorite
browser.

BUT ... I cannot find it in the start menu and I cannot find a desktop
icon although I thing I left checked the installation options to add a
desktop shortcut.

If by any chance you didn't, you can always copy the shortcut (and,
optionally, rename the copy) from the start menu folder to the desktop,
when doing the above tidying. And perhaps to the quick launch area.

So how can I get to see all of the start menu ?

See above. If the columns are too _wide_, you have a shortcut (or
shortcut folder) with too long a name, which you can edit.

How can I find the desktop icon ? WAIT, I did keep hitting 'M' and
stepped through the 'M' icons but MyPal did not show up.

Sounds like you didn't after all ask for one. (Unless XP doesn't add
when the desktop is full; I never got to that point so don't know.)

Help please.

Hope this does.

P.S. Run MyPal does start MyPal so at least I can get it opened.
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ever be that exotic. (It couldn't. You're British.) - Russell Howard, in
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