Re: Win10 l...

On 11/17/2021 6:02 AM, Robert Baer wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>> On 11/15/2021 3:52 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
>>> Any way to get Win10 look and act like XP or Win7?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Shell      [was classicshell.net when supported]
>>
>> https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
>>
>> This one (Start10) costs five bucks.
>>
>> http://geekinspector.com/718/news/stardock-brings-windows-7-start-menu-to-windows-10-with-start10
>>
>> There are probably others. Haven't found a good
>> summary article quite yet.
>>
>> https://www.startisback.com/
>>
>>     Paul
>     Thanks.
> 
>     Would be nice to have icons on desktop of installed programs (oops "apps").
>    How in the hell do the M$ idiots expect anyone to launch (say) Excel from scratch?
>    And what about the image a particular desktop shortcut displays?
>    On a few occasions, it would be nice to make your own.
>    Also very nice to have ONE non-hidden, knowable archive.

Win32 executables ("programs") work as they always have in WIn10.

Apps on the other hand, don't integrate into the environment
at all, in any meaningful way. They're pathetic.

The EXE for an App, is EXE only in name. The code segment
has a short length. Double-clicking the EXE causes the screen
to flash, when a shell starts and instantly closes. The EXE
is really a container for a manifest (some text at the end of
the file), and is not meant to be launched like that. The loader
is too stupid to acknowledge you tried to start an App. It would
have been a natural thing, for the EXE to have launched the App,
but nooo...

In Start:Run, try

    # The Phone App ?

    explorer.exe shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.YourPhone_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App

    # Settings panel maybe ?

    explorer.exe shell:appsFolder\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy!microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel

    # Dogs breakfast, not everything in the display is an App
    # You cannot edit shortcuts to these either. The shortcut
    # is grayed out.

    explorer.exe shell:appsFolder

In any case, that last item is about as close as you'll get,
to an iconic view of any sort. The integration is terrible really.
An abomination.

I didn't test all of those. Try them out for yourself
and see if you can get one of those to work.

    Paul