Re: Has the Windows 11 user interface yet caught up with that of Win10?

Maria Sophia <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 16:25:21 -0500
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Andy Burns wrote:
> Brian Gregory wrote:
> 
>> I do wish the 11 start menu could be configured to work more like the 
>> Windows 7 one worked.
> 
> I understand there is a 'new' start menu included in 25H2 which has not 
> been widely enabled yet?  There's a tool somewhere to force it on ...

Interesting. 

IMHO, the biggest flaw of the Windows-10-style Start Menu, besides the
tiles being binary and hence useless, is the alphabetical start menu.

It's not so much that organizing apps by the alphabet is as absurd as
organizing your utensils by the alphabet, but that Microsoft allows too
much crap to get into the start menu such that you have to clean it up.

Since I designed systems for decades, the system I'd have implemented is a
menu that no program installer can populate. It would be user populated.

The programs could populate anywhere else, such as the desktop or the start
menu, but the user would have an easy way to slide that shortcut to this
menu such that it's ONLY under user control and hence is never polluted.

There's more to the design of course, such as hierarchies, but if the "new"
Windows 11 Start Menu has anything like that, please do let me know.

Because at this point, Windows 11 is a downgrade from Windows 10's GUI.
And I know GUIs.