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

Maria Sophia <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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,

[Self aggrandizing deleted.]

> 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).

[Self aggrandizing deleted.]

> 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> 

  But people wanted and still want much more than "the classic accordion
pullout menus pinned to the taskbar", because that was what the XP and
later (and before?) Start menu was. 

> 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. 

  They did not just move it, they also changed its layout/working.

  Bottom line: Use what you want and how you want it, but don't rule out
the needs of others.

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