Do you like the Windows Classic Start Menu?
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:15 am
Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(364 messages posted)
If you dislike the ergonomic train-crash which is the Windows 7 Start Menu, try this
link:
www.csmenu.com
There you can download a free third-party Classic Start Menu emulator. There
is also a link to a site (by the same author, I believe) where you can download a
Vista Start Menu emulator.
The CS Menu emulator is still in v.1 and does not support drag-and-drop editing,
as yet. So if you want to customise, you are limited to the few token options Win7
allows you.
The Vista Start Menu is in v.3 and supports drag-and-drop editing, deletions, and
additions (which do not affect the underlying Win7 menu structure). The editing
is a little clunky but, on reflection, nowhere near as bad as it was in Vista...
I have used it intensively over the last week, during which time it has proved itself
stable and reliable.
Drag-and-drop Start Menu editing was buggy in Windows 98, and it deteriorated further
with every successive iteration. Considering how bad it was in Vista, they probably
dropped it from Win7 out of sheer self-defence.
ps If your computing memory goes back far enough, does the Win7 Start Menu remind
you of anything? It's ergonomically very similar to DOSShell. Of course, in Win7
you can also locate the app you want to use by typing its name at the prompt... or
am I confusing Windows 7 with DOS 3.3 now?
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