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

Maria Sophia <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 19:53:52 -0500
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Paul wrote:
> What's interesting, is when you install the OS with the network
> cable disconnected, the platoon of billboard icons does not
> come in. The start menu then, is just so "peaceful" :-)

Hi Paul,
I wonder if you remember, when Windows 10 first came out, you and I tried
to wrestle control over both the alphabetical and orthogonal tiled menus?

It turned out the tiled menus are some kind of sadistically controlled
binary, as I recall, so we both summarily gave up trying to control it.

The alphabetical menu is easily controlled, but every day an update throws
more crap in there such that it wasn't worth trying to keep it clean.

The only "clean" menu is a menu that no other program knows about.
You populate it from the desktop shortcut that is often created by an msi.

You organize it by what the program *does* instead of by brand name.
Organizing by brand name is like organizing your kitchen utensils by brand.

The funny thing is everyone figures out how to organize forks from spoons.
But, for some odd reason, most people can't organize browsers from editors.

Go figure.
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