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Windows Menu Editor — This is the last day I search for “Delete”!
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bbearren
AskWoody MVPI use StartAllBack to replace the Windows 11 menu, and it also restores the legacy right-click menu, no searching required.
Create a fresh drive image before making system changes/Windows updates, in case you need to start over!We all have our own reasons for doing the things that we do. We don't all have to do the same things. -
Ben Myers
AskWoody PlusWindows Menu Editor! Great find! I relied on registry edits to get my Windows 11 laptop to behave more like Windows 10. Now I can add this one to my set of tools to simplify Windows 11 for others who are moving or have moved to it.
And, of course, like all Windows releases emulating Intel’s tick-tock approach to generations of products, why on earth did Microsoft make such a hash of changes? Windows tick-tock, one asks? Let’s see now…
Windows XP – OK
Windows Vista – disaster, with very low market share
Window 7 – OK
Windows 8 – disaster of a UI, low market share
Windows 10 – OK again
Windows 11 – Change for change’s sake? Accepted by some only due to Microsoft’s din of Windows 11 hype and steadfast insistence that OEMs make Windows 11 the go-to operating system. Still, buyers get downgrade rights to install Windows 10.
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annon
Guesthy on earth did Microsoft make such a hash of changes? Windows tick-tock, one asks? Let’s see now… Windows XP – OK Windows Vista – disaster, with very low market share Window 7 – OK Windows 8 – disaster of a UI, low market share Windows 10 – OK again Windows 11 – Change for change’s sake? Accepted by some only due to Microsoft’s din of Windows 11 hype and steadfast insistence that OEMs make Windows 11 the go-to operating system. Still, buyers get downgrade rights to install Windows 10.
That is how MS runs things. One bad OS and one good OS but that has changed now. Every OS gets worse and terrible.
Windows Xp – Great OS.
Windows Vista – Terrible
Windows 7 – some what ok but Windows Xp was better.
Windows 8 & Windows 8.1 – Badly Terrible
Windows 10 – Very Terrible- Bad to the BONE. Spyware called telemetry but it is spyware and other malware after MS took on several black hackers to their line up.
Windows 11- Very Very Terrible–Bad to the Bone’s marrow. Increased Spyware and Malware and other features removed or hidden.
Windows 12—Infinity Terrible- Leak version so still might get worse as developers work on it but not likely since it will be a month subscription base OS like Microsoft Office 365.
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Ben Myers
AskWoody PlusFor me, the “OK” is relativistic, faced with the inevitability of having to move forward from release to release of Windows when Microsoft drops support for whatever version I am running. I am more charitable in rating Window than you, but we both see the downward trend.
Like the other 90% of the world running Windows, I do not see a way out of using it, until some massive change in the way we do things comes crashing around us.
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Fred
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GuestBen Myers
AskWoody PlusWARNING! ALARM BELLS! I set up a Windows 11 Business computer for a client last week, and I wanted very much to get Windows Explorer to work that way that it used to, with a single click revealing all of the possible choices, rather than the onerous two-click of Windows11. So what else? I clicked the Windows Menu Editor EXE on my flash stick and the trail version of McAfee promptly identified it as a virus and deleted it from the flash stick, giving me no choice to rectify its error.
Ya been warned. Disable anti-virus before installing Windows Menu Editor. And the enabled A-V program may flag it as a virus on its next scan.
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