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  Menon is one of those programs which sit on the iconbar and, when clicked on, produces a 'menu' of programs on your hard disc. This menu can be split into submenus (eg. Graphics; Text), and so provide a list of your most used programs which is far easier to access than delving into the depths of your hard disc.
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  But that was what the pinboard was designed for, wasn't it? 
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  Of course. But if, like myself, you have a dozen or so programs which you use quite often, but don't want cluttering up pinboard space (which I reserve for the half-dozen most important, in a line across the top of the screen), and, because the Pinboard module needs to read applications' !Boot files, increasing the time the desktop takes to load. Also, if you have a lot of windows open, you either have to iconise all or most of them to be able to find anything in the main part of the backdrop, whilst simply pressing SHIFT-F12 brings the iconbar to the front of the stack of windows, or if the application you are using doesn't use this key combination, press SHIFT-CTRL-TAB to bring up your hard disc's menu. It also should work on RISC OS 2 (though I am not sure of this).
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  Unfortunately,the author seems to have supplied no documentation whatsoever, not even interative help! Luckily, use is fairly intuitive, and once set up, Menon needs no attention.
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  There are a lot of hard disc menu systems around, and, in my opinion, Menon is the best (at least of the ones I know of). Well worth trying.
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Author: Joris Roling<br>
Status: Ambiguous - seems to be Freeware, yet the author asks for 8 to be sent if you like Menon, which is a very sharply defined sum for a mark of appreciation!<br>
Availability: Most PD libraries and the Datafile's <a href="../Commercial/PDCD5">PD-CD 5</a>.
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