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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Open Shell
Date: 14 Jan 2025 15:40:39 GMT
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sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
> On 1/12/2025 9:37 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> > sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:
> > 
> > [About Open-Shell Menu:]
> > 
> >> Kinda.  So it goes back to W7 as the classic menu?
> > 
> >    It actually has three styles, Classic style,  Classic with two columns
> > and Windows 7 style.
> > 
> >    I use(d) Classic with two columns on Windows 8.1, 10 and 11, because I
> > consider it the most logical and pleasant to the eye. (I never used
> > Windows 7, went from Vista to 8.1.)
> > 
> >> I actually could live with Win 11 if when you hit the start menu it
> >> would open up all the programs alphabetically like when you hit the
> >> arrow in the upper right corner.  I think I will always hate having to
> >> do that extra step.
> >>
> >> I guess I'll give it a try and see.
> > 
> >    On Windows 11, you can have *both*, the Windows 11 'Start' menu *and*
> > Open-Shell Menu. My Open-Shell Menu icon is on the far left of the
> > Taskbar and the Windows 11 Start icon is 'floating' around the middle of
> > the Taskbar. IMO best of both worlds.
> > 
> >    "Open-Shell Menu, don't leave home without it!"
> 
> I guess I have to go back to that box and look at it again then.  I 
> don't remember this.  What I looked for last night was a way to turn it 
> on and off, but I didn't find anything like that.  I wanted to disable 
> it to look into something else.  It looks like I have to uninstall it to 
> do other things, although if I can find what you're talking about above 
> that might help.

  You don't have to uninstall Open-Shell Menu to - temporarily - turn it
off.

  You can exit Open-Shell Menu by right-clicking its icon on the Taskbar
and then selecting 'Exit'. It's then gone till you restart/reboot
Windows, because it's configured in the 'Startup apps' part of Task
Manager.

  If you don't want to restart/reboot Windows, you can just execute
"C:\Program Files\Open-Shell\StartMenu.exe", probably easiest from a
Command Prompt window or File Explorer, but you can even do it from the
new-fangled Windows 11 'Start' menu.