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

Frank Slootweg wrote:
>> 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".


Hi Frank,

I treat all operating systems, as, well, um, er, as a "system" which I
control, so I would agree with you that I'm one of the most organized
people on this planet when it comes to migrating from PC1 to PC2.

I posted many times there's no need for that "Classic" stuff if all 
we wanted was an accordion menu in the later Windows releases
(although the tool did a LOT MORE than just pin a taskbar menu).

So I appreciate the complement that my Windows XP menu folder worked on
Windows Vista and Windows 8 and Windows 10, and hopefully, Windows 11.

This menu is just a folder containing a hierarchy of shortcuts anyway.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/jSNb7bkF/pspdf.jpg>

The "Classic" tool that everyone "thought" they needed in, oh, was it
Windows 8 when it came about, was never needed "if", all people wanted was
the classic accordion pullout menus pinned to the taskbar.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/j5K0RL7H/taskbarmenu01.jpg> 

The "Classic" product of the time (which morphed into a few names over
time) purported to "add back" what Microsoft removed, but the fact was
Microsoft never removed it. They just moved it. 

I know this because I copied (yes, copied) my WinXP menus to Windows 10 and
they worked just fine without major changes (only some targets changed).
  <https://i.postimg.cc/qvJDMQcq/taskbarmenu02.jpg> 

As you noted, I'm uncommonly brilliant, so that process won't work as well
for anyone else but for me, but I do appreciate your kind accolades.

There's no reason our menus from Windows XP shouldn't work on Windows 10.

I proved this many times on the newsgroup over the years, but people keep
insisting that the pull-out accordion menu disappeared at that time.

No sense in proving it again, but I only replied because I think it's a
rather common need to want what we always had way back in Windows XP.