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Old June 22nd 18, 07:59 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Arlen Holder
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Default Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview version 17692.1000 Breaks Classic Shell

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 13:30:11 -0700, mike wrote:

I don't understand why people get their panties in a twist over
the start menu.


There are three menu systems native on Windows 10:
1. The orthodox (tiled) start menu
2. The heterodox (alphabetical) start menu
3. The cascade menu

Once you know a few tricks, they are all easy to manage
(although the orthodox start menu has icon quirks as we've seen with the
Tor Browser icon and the Opera browser icon being screwed up).

Delete everything on it and drag program launcher links to it.


It's even easier than dragging since most of the time you can "Pin to
Start", and if you know a few tricks, then all of the time you can "Pin to
Start".
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_my_win10_cascade_menu.jpg

While the Win10 Start Menu is limited to 500 groups, the only major flaw in
the Win10 orthodox start menu is the lack of more than two levels of
hierarchy.

Other than that, and other than the fact that icons don't have names when
you shrink them, and that the icon database is binary (as Paul has found
out for us) so you can't understand it easily - the Windows 10 orthodox
start menu isn't all that bad.

You just have to learn a few tricks to deal with it.

I take it a step further and create a separate page that loads at boot
and has all my program launchers on it.


Why not just create a Windows 10 native Cascade Menu for your launchers?
http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=18_win10menu808.jpg

I use MS software only when
freeware doesn't exist...and that's rarely.


Me too.

Other than MS Office, I can't think of anything that I can't do with
freeware that I need to do on a home desktop computer.

Can you?
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