Once installed and open look in Appearance > Start Menu > Window XP > New Start Menu > Start menu Options > "Show Start- > Programs in scrolling mode"

this will give you a single column, with scrolling arrows at top and bottom.

Or you can reorganize your programs folders to eliminate a lot the clutter. If you don't like the scrolling method, let me know, and I'll try to explain the reorganizing method.

In the Documents and Settings folder, you'll see a folder for each user, and one for All Users. Lets' go to the All Users menu > Start Menu > Programs. Here you'll probably find folders for most program you've installed of your machine.

First make a copy of this folder to the desktop, just in case.

Then, what I would do is create a few new folders such as "Internet", "Tools", you get the idea. Then start moving shortcuts out of all those folders to the appropriate folder. While doing this, I would eliminate shortcuts I don't need/never use. As you clean out a folder, delete it.

This will probably take a while, but when done, you'll have a much more organized more programs list.

I hope this makes sense......