Quoting Bob W <[email protected]>:
From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms
Sent: 28 November 2012 19:31
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Windows 8 Makes Me Consider a Mac
From: Brian Walters
> Hmmm. Well the Win 7 start menu is certainly different on mine.
> Here's the default Win 7 start menu on my PC:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Win7-Default.jpg
>
>
> And here's the 'Classic Shell' version which looks and works the same
> way as my old XP start menu:
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/Win7-ClassicShell.jpg
>
>
> ('Classic Shell' allows the user to switch back to the default menu
if
> they want to. I don't!)
>
> My problem with the default Win 7 interface is the way the programs
> displayed on the left hand pane above the start button keep changing.
> I want to fix the programs (and groups of programs) that I use most
> there, and I can't with the default interface.
I hadn't noticed that, but I'm only using Windows 7 to run two programs
right now. I guess I haven't used the start menu all that much.
Adobe Bridge launches from a dialog box that appears whenever I plug
the SD card reader into the USB. Or I can launch it by double clicking
the desktop Icon. I almost always launch Photoshop from Bridge.
Mozilla Firefox is down there on the toolbar next to the start button.
I only use it for online Photoshop tutorials.
I built that computer strictly for photo editing, and so far, I've
managed to stick to that.
They change according to how much you use the software that you're starting
from the menu.
You can pin things to the start menu by right-clicking on the item you want
and choosing the appropriate option from the context menu that opens. This
has been available in Windows since the Eocene.
True enough but you can't pin collections of programs and other
shortcuts there in customized folders (or at least I couldn't find a
way to do it in the time I was prepared to allocate to trying). There
were other things that I hated about the default Win 7 interface that
I've now forgotten. When I found 'Classic Shell" I stopped fighting
the OS and just got on with doing.
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Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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