Re: Has the Windows 11 user interface yet caught up with that of Win10?
Zaidy036 <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2026 21:12:45 -0500
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-11,alt.comp.microsoft.windows |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 2/6/2026 2:08 PM, Maria Sophia 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). > > 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. Lots of free mods including Windows 11 Start Menu <https://windhawk.net/mods>