Okay, fess up! Who still uses Classic Menus?

[Frankster]

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and the
new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep longing
for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I just need more
time to get used to it?

Anyone else?

-Frank

 

[Dale]

I have tried to leave my Vista as default as possible until I get really
comfortable with it but I just had to have the menus. I'm so ashamed.

Dale

 

[Ken Gardner]

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and the
new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep
longing for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I just
need more time to get used to it?

Anyone else?

I love the new Vista menus. I love finding what I'm looking for in one or
two seconds by typing it in the start menu search box. I didn't like the
Classic menus even before Vista.

Ken

 

[Saucy]

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and the
new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep
longing for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I just
need more time to get used to it?

Anyone else?

-Frank

No, no classic menus for me; although I do use classic-style themes
occassionally. Even so though, I use the Vista menu.

If the Vista menu gets too big i.e. too much scrolling and perhaps even slow
response, consider editing the menu's folders. Create some top level folders
accordng to categories e.g "Internet Apps" and put all the related apps in
that folder e.g. Messenger, Windows Mail, Internet Explorer. Thereby you
shorten the Vista Programs menu.

You probably do need a bit of time to get used to the Vista menu. Notice
that there's a lot of 'functionality' built into the menu and try some of it
out. You'll probably get used to it and come to prefer it.

 

[Dale]

So publish a good blog article on them so we can find all that
functionality. Don't make me work for it.

Dale

 

[BSchnur]

I have tried to leave my Vista as default as possible until I get really

comfortable with it but I just had to have the menus. I'm so ashamed.

I currently have three different Vista systems running (two will get
regrooved when the RC1 license goes away) -- running them different
ways to get a handle on how to do things.

But since my primary workstation is W2K, I must admit to running things
in 'old fogie' mode.

 

[Kerry Brown]

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and the
new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep
longing for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I just
need more time to get used to it?

Anyone else?

-Frank

After three months of daily use I find it awkward to go back to either
classic menus or XP menus. I really miss Start Search. I have always opened
many programs from WinKey-R and typing in the name. With Start Search I
rarely have to type more than four letters. I also really like the right
side of the menu better than in XP. It's better looking and more useful.

 

[Nicole & Tom]

I currently have three different Vista systems running (two will get
regrooved when the RC1 license goes away) -- running them different
ways to get a handle on how to do things.

But since my primary workstation is W2K, I must admit to running things
in 'old fogie' mode.

me too

 

[Francis Bacon]

"Frankster" said:

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and the
new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep
longing for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I just
need more time to get used to it?

I like the new menus and am using them. I did not like the "new" XP menus
when they came out and went straight into "fogie" mode. The Start button on
XP reminded me of the Teletubbies, specially with that rolly polly green
hill background. Vista in its default state did not give me the Teletubby
hibby jibbies.

 

[Benjamin]

Me too. I couldn't stand XP's style. I used classic in that, however I
definitely like vistas lay out.

 

[Cymbal Man Freq.]

We used to get free themes in Win 98SE. Like I got an Atari CD and my cursor is
a spaceship that fires and vibrates like it's ejaculating when busy. Arrows
suck.

 

[Scott]

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and the
new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep longing
for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I just need more
time to get used to it?

I kissed "classic" goodbye the day I got XP.

Good Riddance!

 

[Scott]

I kissed "classic" goodbye the day I got XP.

Good Riddance!

Ooops..

I misread the subject.

Never mind.

 

[Dale]

Thanks for sharing.

Dale

 

[Dale]

It looked right on-topic to me.

Dale

Ooops..

I misread the subject.

Never mind.

--
Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

I kissed "classic" goodbye the day I got XP.

I stuck with the Win95 UI throughout Win98 and WinME, as I saw no
value and only risks and hassles with "View As Web Page" and "Active
Desktop". I didn't like every shared location becoming a potential
malware launch point via Desktop.ini and .HTT files (hello Redlof,
what took you so long?), and I got sick of the most common "Active
Desktop", namely the white "Active Desktop has fallen on it's ass
again" fallback. I hated the UI pressure to enable Active Desktop
every time a JPEG was selected as wallpaper - slimeball tactics, IMO.

I also saw no value in wasting half the folder view space by repeating
the folder name in HUGE LETTERS. Totally pointless, and ugly with it.

When XP came along, I liked the curved UI elements, but missed having
full control over my UI element colors. Seemed like a step backwards,
there. Further, I found no value whatsoever in the new "search dog",
extra-clicks Start Menu, and other dumbed-down UIs, so out they went.

However, I quite like Vista's new Start Menu, and I *love* Vista's far
more capable Search, and several other bits that have matured from
"that's nice, I guess" stubs in XP to full-blown toolkits in Vista.

--------------- ---- --- -- - - - -

Saws are too hard to use.
Be easier to use!

 

[BSchnur]

Heck, talk about old applications, I run one to manage my wife's
billing -- cobbled it together nearly 20 years ago.

I take her day sheet day which she enters in Microsoft Word -- print
that out and then rekey it into Reflex 1.14 (which runs in DOS graphics
mode). From there I run a revised day sheet which we cross checkk.

Then I go into the Reflex report mode and export three reports
(patient, insurance and summary) as text files.

I read those into Word 2000 using pre-set formatted templates and print
them off as bills. (The paper on which the bills are printed is
previously run to have shading and common data on Quattro Pro 8).

It is a Rube Goldberg mess -- but it worked 20 years ago and still
does.

Of course what I should do is learn a decent database program and
customize it so my wife can do the data entry day sheet stuff from her
side, and all I need do is print reports. But the extra time we spend
on it provides for bonding (see under rationalization).

 

[bp]

Me too. I couldn't stand XP's style. I used classic in that, however I
definitely like vistas lay out.

ditto

 

[JJJones]

ditto

Same here.

 

[Nina DiBoy]

Well? I've been alternating back and forth from the Classic menus and
the new Vista menus. I am trying hard to like the new menus, but I keep
longing for the classic menus when I am in the new Vista native. Do I
just need more time to get used to it?

Anyone else?

-Frank

I religiously use the classic menus. There is still an option to run
the computer in vista native mode, but still use a classic menu, isn't
there (from the right-click task bar properties)?

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http://protectfreedom.tripod.com/kick.html

Most recent idiotic quote added to KICK (Klassic Idiotic Caption Kooks):
"I do know for a fact that his monkey really needs a spanking. The monkey
gets "out of hand" if you know what I mean!"

"Good poets borrow; great poets steal."
- T. S. Eliot