The recently used applications list in WinXP is a great idea (although not a new one...wasn't that feature in the early betas of Win95 but removed because it wasn't "data centric"?). The problem is that the list is in exactly the wrong place. Putting it at the top level of the Start Menu completely breaks keyboard navigation of the Start Menu. It makes the keyboard accelerators non-deterministic - I can't hit Ctrl-Esc, C to launch the Control Panel because I might have recently run CardScan.
I guess most people don't use the keyboard to navigate the Start Menu, but doing so has kept me free from RSI so far, and damn it, I'm sticking with it (it's faster than using the mouse anyway). Microsoft, why do you punish us keyboarders?
Why this list isn't under a My Recent Applications submenu, similar to My Recent Documents, is a mystery to me. Anyone know of any hacks to relocate the list to a submenu off of the Start Menu?
Grrrr....