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Navigate Windows 7 From a Vintage-Style Start Menu With CSMenu - PC World
Have you tried the Vista Start Menu app, it's a freebie like the csmenu but much more functional.I did just that - installed it and it looked fine. However, the original Classic Start menu did not have as many features as the new one in win 7, and after checking this program out for a whole day, I reluctantly had to uninstall it, as I could find no way of switching between it and the new menu. It may be that I missed it, but if there was a switch mechanism, it would have been fine. But it cannot do everything that is required in Windows 7.
I did just that - installed it and it looked fine. However, the original Classic Start menu did not have as many features as the new one in win 7, and after checking this program out for a whole day, I reluctantly had to uninstall it, as I could find no way of switching between it and the new menu. It may be that I missed it, but if there was a switch mechanism, it would have been fine. But it cannot do everything that is required in Windows 7.
I'm using Vista Start menu. If i had known about it back when I was using the XP Classic Start Menu I would have used it back then. It's the best start menu I've ever seen.Have you tried the Vista Start Menu app, it's a freebie like the csmenu but much more functional.
As for toggling between the menus, the Vista Start menu has a option to start with windows.
When started it places an icon in the system tray right click it and choose exit and you will have the Win 7 menu restored.
Place a shortcut to the Vista Start Menu .exe on you desktop or pin it to the taskbar and clicking it will replace the Win 7 start menu with the Vista Start Menu.
I'm willing to bet that there is a way to create a shortcut to shut down the Vista Start Menu but I don't know how.
Vista Start Menu – Convenient alternative to Start menu
I use True Launch Bar also.Best tool I ever used to run programs is \"True Launch Bar\" - you can have as much \"Start\" buttons as you wish and all programs categorized by this buttons. But M$ cannot study old mistakes, they do new ones! Now they \"improved\" start menu to be most annoying feature of W7. Well, if they are so stupid, I'll sit on my XP - no more money for new rubbish!
Yeah I know about the Quick Launch. I used it in XP all the time. I've had it set up in W7 before too. But when I found the CSMenu I disabled it because I didn't feel the need for it any more. Then I switched to the Vista Start Menu and now I'm hooked on that. It has a Favorites Menu that is just like the Quick Launch.Stuey,
Quick Launch will save going to All Programs all the time for everything.
http://windows7forums.com/blogs/drew/11-quick-launch-win7.html
And yes, the Search in W7 is great, too.
Cheers,
Drew
\"A scan a day keeps the nasties away!\"
Well said Reghakr buddy. I think you're right. I can't believe how deep people's feelings run on this issue.I;m reposting this again because I think new mwembers should see it.:
Too give them any value, Polls are supposed to have a conclusion. With a heavy vote in favour of the new menu, and increasing, I think the poll, and the thread, has run it's course.
It has now become a flaming match, with several posts in rather bad tastes, others heavily prejudiced to wards the posters own preference.
I am going to attempt to summarize this whole thread.
I believe the people voting for the New Start Menu are typical home users who use their computer for daily tasks such as creating documents, checking e-mail and surfing the Internet. As they are already familiar with the New Start menu (which is installed by default) they might not even know the Classic Start menu existed. So their vote, of course, is the New Start Menu
On th other hand Sysadmins, power users and people who love to customize Windows are most likely aware of the Classic Start menu (and they probably changed it back to The Classic Menu immediately). So, these people are used to the Classic Menu.
In other works I think the poll is skewed because of the vast amount of people posting who are the typical computer users. In other words there are more posters here that fall into the typical users category.
Maybe there should be another poll with 2 radio buttons:
1. Do you administer any computers in a small to large company or consider yourself a Poweruser?
2. Do you use your computer for daily tasks such as e-mailing, creating documents, and surfing the Internet?