It might well be time to re-design your main menu, especially if it was designed for terminals, complete with graphic characters to make a logo. Since this is the part of the application that people see the most, it makes sense to give it a little design effort. One thing to consider is consolidating all of the submenus into a single Tab Control (with separate tabs for the submenus, and the items themselves being clickable.) Another thing to do is display a large graphic, logo or banner. If you don’t have one already developed, hire a designer to make you one. A third suggestion is to use the remaining space to provide shortcuts (via buttons or clickable text, or maybe even a list box) to the most common functions, making it even quick for the user to get where they want to go. This is much more effective if the user can customize their own shortcuts. Once you put all your menu options in a file, with security levels and other related attributes for each choice, it will be relatively easy to tinker with the menu design.
