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

Maria Sophia <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2026 14:08:43 -0500
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Organization BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com)
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Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> Windows 7 was great. For me 10 was a disaster - slow and weirdly 
>> inconstant. 11 is better than 10 but some old software tends to crash 
>> the new explorer.exe. And I do wish the 11 start menu could be 
>> configured to work more like the Windows 7 one worked.
> 
>   For all intents and purposes, Open-Shell Menu *is* the Windows 7 Start
> menu.
> 
>   I use(d) it on Windows 8.1, 10 and now 11. You don't have to use the
> native Windows 11 Start menu at all if you don't want to.

Frank brings up an interesting point, which is even though nobody ever
needed Open Shell Menu in the past (yes, even on Windows 10), now it's
actually needed on Windows 11 for the first time since pinned taskbar menus
are (apparently) no longer allowed on Windows 11 (but they were on Win10).
  <https://i.postimg.cc/fW38dhsX/android-windows-menus.jpg>

For the first time ever, Open Shell Menu is needed (only in Windows 11).

The good news is you can copy your Windows XP menus to Windows 11 and it
"should" work but I haven't tested that yet but that works on Windows 10.