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Is the XP classic start menu back (finally) with Windows 10?
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 12:02:48 -0300, Shadow wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:23:30 +1200, Dave Doe wrote: In article , , Shadow says... On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:44:14 +1200, Dave Doe wrote: Linux GUI's are so immature. I don't understand why the Linux dev team don't put more into that. I think it's vital. On the contrary, Linux lost their opportunity when Microsoft launched Win 8. If they'd stuck with rock stable Gnome 2 (with it's Win XP-like interface) they would have converted a lot of Desktop users. Naa they weren't even close. It looks and feels more like W95 or 3.11. It sucks. Nothing at all like win 3.11 Most XP users preferred "classic menu", which was based on win 95/win98. So it obviously worked. If XP sucks, why do so many intelligent people still use it ? []'s http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06...on_2_6_review/ Too late. Much too late. And "based on Ubuntu" should be there as a warning, not a "feature". []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Is the XP classic start menu back (finally) with Windows 10?
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@wheedledeedle.moc: On 09 Jun 2015, "Paul B. Andersen" wrote in alt.windows-xp: The whole Windows XP start menu fiasco was, IMHO, all about people never taking control of their computer. It was never a "fiasco" to me. It was perfectly usable. The Windows 7 menu was even handier. With Dell's help, we were able to pretty much get back our own Start Menu in Windows 8.1 (but that was two years ago, so I have forgotten how we did that) on the non-touch screen laptop that my son brought to college with him. You probably used a 3rd party utility, of which there are several. There is no way to closely mimic the XP menu with Windows 8. I don't remember the XP Start menu but using a taskbar toolbar I have a Start menu that looks and works like in Windows 98/ME. Right-click on the taskbar, select new toolbar and in the dialog box that opens, browse to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start menu" The missing bits and pieces like "run" or "search" are in the Windows 8 menu at the left of the taskbar anyways. I haven't tried the Big_Al solution which might be more complete. No third party here. |
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Is the XP classic start menu back (finally) with Windows 10?
"Dominique" wrote in message
... I don't remember the XP Start menu but using a taskbar toolbar I have a Start menu that looks and works like in Windows 98/ME. Right-click on the taskbar, select new toolbar and in the dialog box that opens, browse to "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start menu" The missing bits and pieces like "run" or "search" are in the Windows 8 menu at the left of the taskbar anyways. I haven't tried the Big_Al solution which might be more complete. No third party here. Yes, that sort of works (at least on Windows 7 - haven't tried it on Windows 8 yet) but it suffers from not being sufficiently similar to a Windows ME/XP/Vista/7 Start Menu with the Run field at the bottom left, links for Control Panel and Devices and Printers in the right-hand column and a *compact* list of installed apps in the top left. To get a Run menu you need to use a totally different method (the "batterburg cake" Windows button) compared with the method for getting the links to apps. In other words, although you have the same functionality it is not sufficiently similar to pre-Win8 to allow use without having to unlearn and relearn. Classic Shell is great: it restores a Start Menu that is sufficiently similar to Windows 7 (or XP if that's how you configure it) that you don't have to think which version of Windows you are using - which is how Microsoft *should* have done it: once people have learned one UI, that is the one that should be available for ever afterwards in all subsequent versions - even if they make additional UIs available, they should only ever add functionality and never remove so-called legacy functionality. |
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