re: Do you like the Windows Classic Start Menu?
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 11:37 am
Posted by Johnny Tidwell
(3 messages posted)
I installed the CS Menu on Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit and I like it much better that the
default Win 7 start menu. I guess because I am more familiar with the claasic menu.
On Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:15 am, Alan Masterman wrote:
>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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