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

Maria Sophia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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).

  Nope, that is for *your* - rather uncommon - use.

  For the rest of the world, Open-Shell Menu (first Classic Start Menu)
was/is needed in Windows 8[.1] and beyond, when Microsoft abandoned the
Start menu which existed from XP through 7 (and IIRC earlier, 2000 and
NT).

> 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.

  I doubt that many - if any - use your "pinned taskbar menus".