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Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11?

From Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows, alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11?
Date 2024-07-28 20:52 +0100
Organization https://www.Brian-Gregory.me.uk/
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On 28/07/2024 19:25, Jan K. wrote:
> The Windows Start Menu is a garbage pail filled with other people's trash.
> Using it entails hand picking through all the smelly trash to clean it out.
> 
> Constantly.
> 
> The only menu worth dealing with is one that no program knows about.
> The reason is they all want to add as many items to it as they can.
> 
> Therefore, the only menu that stays clean, is one you build yourself.
> 
> Which was easy in Windows 10 since a hierarchical shortcut folder pinned to
> the taskbar as a toolbar would cascade accordion pullout on demand.
> 
> But not in Windows 11.
> 
> Microsoft seems desperate to force you to use their garbage start menu.
> 
> But I don't know if this new feature means M$ saw the error of their ways.

Isn't "All Apps" on the Windows 11 menu near enough the same thing?
I only goes one deep flattening any further folders, which can make a 
few things ambiguous, but usually it's just a few "Uninstall" icons that 
you can't tell apart.

-- 
Brian Gregory (in England).

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Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2024-07-28 02:29 +0200
  Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-07-28 03:01 -0500
    Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? Big Al <alan@invalid.com> - 2024-07-28 08:52 -0400
    Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2024-07-28 20:25 +0200
      Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? Brian Gregory <void-invalid-dead-dontuse@email.invalid> - 2024-07-28 20:52 +0100
        Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? "Jan K." <janicekoziol@nie.ma.spamu.prosze.com> - 2024-07-29 04:04 +0200
          Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2024-07-29 16:52 -0500
    Re: Did Microsoft just add back the missing Windows 10 taskbar start (foldout) menu to Windows 11? dbnnet <dbnnet@invalid.com> - 2024-08-10 07:57 +0200

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