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Old January 12th 19, 10:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Win XP to Win 10?

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 12:45:05 -0700, Bill in Co wrote:

Was just curious how many had taken the plunge and were happy about it.


I went from SunOS/Solaris/Mac - Win95 - Win2K - WinXP - Win7 -Win10
and can say that there is nothing different in extremus.

In fact, for Windows, there was a famous thread last year or so where we
valiently tried to find just 10 "things" you could do in Win10 that you
couldn't do in any of the other Windows. As I recall, we didn't even make
10, or, maybe we made it only barely so. (We can dig it up if you don't
believe me.)

On the other hand, the "menu" GUI is, by most (incorrect) accounts,
DIFFERENT, where, it turns out, that the WinXP cascade accordion menu is so
ingrained in Windows, that, literally, and I mean literally (the same exact
files!) can be copied over from Windows XP to Windows 10, and then "pinned"
to the task bar, and voila!

You have the same cascaded Windows XP menus on Windows 10.
Literally the same files! (Yes. The actual files are exactly the same!)

Of course, I'm (likely one of) the most well organized people you will ever
meet in your entire life (when it comes to Windows menus anyway), so for
me, copying the EXACT FILES worked perfectly - but - for 99.9% of the
people in the world, the exact files won't work.

But the EXACT SAME PROCESS does work.

If we want, we can dig up the tutorials I wrote, which contain all the
details, but this thread doesn't seem to warrant those details.

The point is twofold, and is very IMPORTANT and STRATEGIC:
POINT 1: All Windows do the same stuff (Win10 is no more powerful than XP).
POINT 2: The WinXP cascade menus NEVER LEFT being native in Windows.

If we must, I can delve into POINT 3, which I'm still formulating, but
where experts like Paul have helped me get the idiotically designed Windows
10 default left side (heterodox) alphabetical menus and the even more
idiotically designed Windows 10 default right side (orthodox) tiled menus
working.

After spending months honing them both, I deleted them in their entirety in
my latest Windows 10 incarnation, falling back on the old WinXP style
cascade menus and folder menus (pinned Quick Access) as being more
efficient (non touch screen application).

So putting those three summary points together, here's my take:
POINT 1: You can do anything you need to do in any Windows version
POINT 2: Contrary to public perception, WinXP menus never left Windows
POINT 3: The "new" heterodox/orthodox Win10 menus are an abomination
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