Cleaning of all programs on the start menu

I'm going from XP to 7. In the start menu > all programs listing all downloaded programs is listed. Under XP I could go to "documents and settings", create folders and put the files listed in all programs into separate folders. It resulted in very few files containing the downloaded files. For example, I got the files listed as 'Business', 'Security', 'Internet' etc. How to do this in 7 so that my ALL PROGRAMS list is first files and downloaded programs. I hope I have made myself clear...  Thank you

There are two places where the start menu programs .

For a particular user where where programs installed to be used by this user look in:

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

For all users look in:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start start\program

NOTE: AppData and ProgramData are hidden files.

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