Is the XP classic start menu back (finally) with Windows 10?

The start menu I really found useful was the one with windows 7, to search
and instant find the program. But with windows 8, this bring the big metro
screen and it's so sloow. Win 7 search was way much faster.

"Paul B. Andersen" wrote in message
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Same here. But I went one step further and created my hierarchical menus
outside the Start menu, using True Launch Bar. The only time the Start
menu opens here is when I hit the Windows key and starting typing a
program name, or restart my PC.

Actually, if I am to admit the truth, I do go into the default
Start Menu Programs once or twice or three times a year.

I go there, usually, to find a program that I didn't install (e.g.,
Bonjour and Quicktime come with Itunes, for example). If I never
start Bonjour or Quicktime, I wouldn't need them in "my" start menu,
but, sometimes I need to start them, and then (only then) do I
look into the default Start Menu Programs.

Other than to find stuff that I wouldn't normally execute, I let
it rot where it lies, which is fine by me as it acts like a
sacrificial anode and keeps all the other rust out of "my"
real cascaded menu (which is just a hierarchy inside of the
Start Menu anyway).

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 ?
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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".
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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.

"Dominique" wrote in message
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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.