XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   >> For the first time ever, Open Shell Menu is needed (only in Windows 11).   
   >   
   >   Nope, that is for *your* - rather uncommon - use.   
   >   For the rest of the world, Open-Shell Menu (first Classic Start Menu)   
   > was/is needed in Windows 8[.1] and beyond, when Microsoft abandoned the   
   > Start menu which existed from XP through 7 (and IIRC earlier, 2000 and   
   > NT).   
   >   
   >> The good news is you can copy your Windows XP menus to Windows 11 and it   
   >> "should" work but I haven't tested that yet but that works on Windows 10.   
   >   
   >   I doubt that many - if any - use your "pinned taskbar menus".   
      
      
   Hi Frank,   
      
   I treat all operating systems, as, well, um, er, as a "system" which I   
   control, so I would agree with you that I'm one of the most organized   
   people on this planet when it comes to migrating from PC1 to PC2.   
      
   I posted many times there's no need for that "Classic" stuff if all   
   we wanted was an accordion menu in the later Windows releases   
   (although the tool did a LOT MORE than just pin a taskbar menu).   
      
   So I appreciate the complement that my Windows XP menu folder worked on   
   Windows Vista and Windows 8 and Windows 10, and hopefully, Windows 11.   
      
   This menu is just a folder containing a hierarchy of shortcuts anyway.   
       
      
   The "Classic" tool that everyone "thought" they needed in, oh, was it   
   Windows 8 when it came about, was never needed "if", all people wanted was   
   the classic accordion pullout menus pinned to the taskbar.   
       
      
   The "Classic" product of the time (which morphed into a few names over   
   time) purported to "add back" what Microsoft removed, but the fact was   
   Microsoft never removed it. They just moved it.   
      
   I know this because I copied (yes, copied) my WinXP menus to Windows 10 and   
   they worked just fine without major changes (only some targets changed).   
        
      
   As you noted, I'm uncommonly brilliant, so that process won't work as well   
   for anyone else but for me, but I do appreciate your kind accolades.   
      
   There's no reason our menus from Windows XP shouldn't work on Windows 10.   
      
   I proved this many times on the newsgroup over the years, but people keep   
   insisting that the pull-out accordion menu disappeared at that time.   
      
   No sense in proving it again, but I only replied because I think it's a   
   rather common need to want what we always had way back in Windows XP.   
      
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