Classic Start Menu

[SC Tom]

I'm not a doctor, but here's a partial solution to your arthritis problem
(sorry - I forgot we no longer have problems. Arthritis issue.) Click on
the favorites icon on LHS so sidebar is always displayed, and add to
favorites will be always available .

And lose a quarter of my screen. No, really, it's fine the way it is LOL!!

 

[Sunny Bard]

If Sunny doesn't like it, then it is broken to him/her, especially if it
can be changed.

Exactly, I've had the choice of Classic or New start menu on WinXP and
Win2003 (I've very rarely used Vista) and on any machine I'm using for
more than a few minutes, I prefer Classic so that's what I use. On
Win2003R2 servers and Win7 I no longer have the choice and it irks.

I don't expect to be able to avoid upgrading to Win7 for too much
longer, I knew of the payware classicstartmenu etc, but am pleased to
see the FOSS version (also it sounds better than the payware offerings).

Things like lack of toolbars and icons in IE7/IE8 don't bother me as I
mostly use Firefox, though I notice that future firefox versions seem to
be taking their lead from Chrome/IE8, also OpenOffice shows signs of
adopting elements of the ribbon style interface from Office 2007 (shudder).

 

[Sunny Bard]

I prefer Classic so that's what I use.
On Win2003R2 servers and Win7 I no longer have the choice and it irks.

^^^^^^^^^
oops, Win2008R2

 

[johnbee]

Amen to that. But it happens with everything.

Take IE8 - the main issue with IE7 was security, so MS needed to fix that
with IE8. Fine. But they decided it was necessary to redesign it and add
"Feechas". Now that wouldn't have been so bad if they would have added one
more option - "Make IE8 look and behave like my IE7 setup". With that, I
could have lived with IE8, and maybe slowly changed to its new ways and
appearance. But that option wasn't there, and I couldn't get it to look
like the IE7 I was familiar with. So I uninstalled it.

Now I've got Win7, I've got IE8. I still don't like it, and will install
Firefox or Opera. The latter will also give me a basic email &
newsreader, if I install WLM and don't like it.

Blimey that is strange. I got IE8 as soon as it was released and noticed a
few annoying new bars and boxes along the top, but just removed them.
Various bits of software try to get IE8 to have extra parts, and it is
simple to ditch them.

Opera is quite snappy in working but I asked them how to make it
auto-connect and they would not help. Firefox is for people who like
tweaking and adding bits and generally playing around and has loads of twee
annoying words it has adopted to make us love it. I tried it but they are
snooty and insulting in answer to queries. Keep off Chrome unless you want
to be analysed to death.

In about a week I will be using Windows 7 on a new PC replacing my old one
using XP. I expect I will find it a nuisance until I have got the hang of
it like everybody else.