XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: this@ddress.is.invalid   
      
   Maria Sophia  wrote:   
   > Frank Slootweg wrote:   
   > >> Windows 7 was great. For me 10 was a disaster - slow and weirdly   
   > >> inconstant. 11 is better than 10 but some old software tends to crash   
   > >> the new explorer.exe. And I do wish the 11 start menu could be   
   > >> configured to work more like the Windows 7 one worked.   
   > >   
   > >   For all intents and purposes, Open-Shell Menu *is* the Windows 7 Start   
   > > menu.   
   > >   
   > >   I use(d) it on Windows 8.1, 10 and now 11. You don't have to use the   
   > > native Windows 11 Start menu at all if you don't want to.   
   >   
   > Frank brings up an interesting point, which is even though nobody ever   
   > needed Open Shell Menu in the past (yes, even on Windows 10), now it's   
   > actually needed on Windows 11 for the first time since pinned taskbar menus   
   > are (apparently) no longer allowed on Windows 11 (but they were on Win10).   
   >      
   >   
   > 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".   
      
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