Many applications create a menu like at left when they install.  Almost everything in the folder New CD App menu is extraneous.  Don’t leave it this way or you’ll have to navigate through that extra layer and put up with the visual clutter.. 

Here's a general solution for popping applications like this up one level and hiding their extra baggage in a convenient yet out-of-the-way place.  Each menu folder, for example CDs, will have an extra sub-folder called Xtras.  We'll move the folder New CD App to folder CDs\Xtras and then move shortcut New CD App into folder CDs.  Once you've done this, the application shortcut is up one menu level and the extra stuff is out of the way in an Xtras sub-folder.

If you want more detailed instructions, scroll down to Drag and Drop.  Otherwise scroll farther to Quicker Cleaner Start Menu to see the new menu.

Don't start doing this now.  Just get the idea; then go on to topic 4 in the Ten Ways ... list.  You're likely to want to re-organize your Start Menu altogether, and the Xtras sub-menus can be dealt with then.  You need to understand the idea behind Xtras though; so read at least the last section Quicker Cleaner....

Assume, for this example, that New CD App is a CD application, and that Start Menu\Programs\CDs\Xtras already exists.

The easiest way to do the above dragging etc. is: right-click on , left click on Open All Users in the popup menu, Click to open the folder Programs, click on the icon to open the folders view.  Drag the folder New CD App to CDs\Xtras (see blue hilite and cursor in the illustration at left).  Then click on Xtras, and drag the shortcut New CD App from folder Xtras\New CD App to folder CDs.

Scroll down to see the results.

You no longer have to navigate down that additional step in the menu in order to run New CD App, and the extras no longer get in your way, yet they're easy to get to.