Okay, fess up! Who still uses Classic Menus?

[Guest]

don't be ashamed. I am still using the classic menu as well. The new menu
sucks..and that yahoo search bar..I HATE it when they try to do my
thinking/searching for me!

 

[Guest]

yes, I'll grant you the search ability in the Start box is an improvement.
My frustration is with the change of menus in Office, especially WORD and
EXCEL. Everything takes much longer... 2-3 clicks just to do simple stuff.

the basic problem is changing a set of tools we already knew how to use.
Good or bad, we know how to use them. Now we get to spend money and decrease
our efficiency while increasing our frustration.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:05:00 -0700, James Mueller

I feel the new menus in Vista are great; it did take some time to get used
to but once your used to it; you'll instantly notice the benefits.

It's particularly good once Start Menu is left to go "wild" after
systems are deployed - y'know, all that Vendor\Blah\Blah stuff.

For me, I'd clean up the mess, and then the classic menu would be as
good - though I'd prefer Win95's faster menus that didn't fiddle with
each entry so you were spared the glacial "icon dribble" of Win98+

I suspect the "animation" effects were added to hide this latency...

Remeber upgrading from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95; people said the same thing
but once they got used to it; it turned out for the better.

Win3.yuk's UI was appalling - both in design (scales really badly with
a non-trivial app load) and implementation (dies when using high color
depths due to constraints on icon caching capacities).

Vista's better than XP etc. but isn't quite the momentous improvement
that Win95 was over Win3.yuk - then again, I don't expect anything
would be that much of a change (esp. for the better) again.

Mind you, Win3.yuk was quite a low baseline....

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

 

[HAL]

I use Classic all over. The reason for using Classic in Vista is the
annoying new Alt-Tab feature: If I unluckily select a window using the
mouse, it will auto-select the window when I release alt-tab (which it
did not do in XP).

 

[Guest]

I have been living with the new menu systems but I am getting ready to go
back to classic because I find that the new menus greatly increase the number
of keystrokes I use to accomplish a task.

 

[felmon davis]

I have been living with the new menu systems but I am getting ready to go
back to classic because I find that the new menus greatly increase the number
of keystrokes I use to accomplish a task.

pardon me: I haven't followed the thread.

is it possible to use the 'classical' style on all windows? so far I've
only figured out how to change to 'classical' on the 'control panel'
window.

this is probably a faq; forgive me.

Felmon

 

[Cal Bear '66]

Right click the Start Orb, select Properties, Check Classic Start menu and use
the Customize button

 

[felmon davis]

Right click the Start Orb, select Properties, Check Classic Start menu
and use the Customize button

wonderful. thanks; will give it a try.

Felmon

 

[buchan]

I use classic.

wonderful. thanks; will give it a try.

Felmon

 

[TheNetAvenger]

This is a matter or personal choice.

I personally find the new 'search' feature in the start menu a great time
saver for finding a program (i.e. type Restore to find System Restore), this
is much faster than sifting through or remembering what program group the
program is in and its exact name.

I also like the ability to search for anything, like being able to type
Monkey and having a quick list of any time I wrote the word monkey or all
documents/emails/pictures that are related to the word Monkey.

But then again, this is a personal usage thing, and good luck to you...

 

[XS11E]

I have been living with the new menu systems but I am getting
ready to go back to classic because I find that the new menus
greatly increase the number of keystrokes I use to accomplish a
task.

I learned before I first installed XP to right click on the start
button and switch to classic menu, I actually did take a look at the
Vista start menu and used it for about 20 minutes before switching to
classic along with disabling all the visual effects. The more an OS
looks like Widows 2000, the better I like it.

As always, YMMV.

 

[Guest]

Oh, give me a break! It is really nice to have a useable "Search" feature.
I've always opened the appropriate Explorer window and pressed F3. Close
enough for me.
Howsome ever, anyone who is using the Search field to type in the NAME of
the program they want to run, is trying to go back to DOS. If you must type
something, set up a keyboard shortcut: i.e. if I want to run Notepad, I type
CTRL+ALT+N.

The real point of the search field is to let the kids play their music and
watch their videos. They need not know the full names or locations of their
songs, just the first few letters.

 

[Robert Miles]

Oh, give me a break! It is really nice to have a useable "Search"
feature.
I've always opened the appropriate Explorer window and pressed F3. Close
enough for me.
Howsome ever, anyone who is using the Search field to type in the NAME of
the program they want to run, is trying to go back to DOS. If you must
type
something, set up a keyboard shortcut: i.e. if I want to run Notepad, I
type
CTRL+ALT+N.

The real point of the search field is to let the kids play their music and
watch their videos. They need not know the full names or locations of
their
songs, just the first few letters.

I use the classic start menu. Not a very good imitation of 98 SE, though.

 

[Andre Da Costa [ActiveWin]]

Well, I use Windows XP with the Classic theme in VMWare Workstation, does
that count? As for Windows nomenclatures, attached to each branded Vista
built in applications, does not phase me one bit, since I often launch apps
through the 'Run' command or Instant Search, and you only need to type in a
specific part of the word such as Calendar, Mail and it will appear
instantly.