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I miss the old start menu. I now have to remember the complete names of programs I have installed, as win 10 search won’t find partial matches all the time

smitty1e 6y ago
Pin to the star menu?
- innocenat 6y ago
  Funny you say that, as I could lunch program with search in Win7 way faster than I can click on pinned menu in Win10.
  - OkGoDoIt 6y ago
    I miss the Windows 7 start menu. It really was peak Windows.
shawa_a_a 6y ago
After using Windows 10 for a while I grew similarly fed up. I found OpenShell [1] to be a very faithful replication of the old start menu I'm used to from XP and before. 1: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
- nivethan 6y ago
  Thanks! Reskinned to look and act like xp. Hopefully I’m not getting stuck in my ways...
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
  I'm using that too, but under W7 in classic aka W2k-look.
spideymans 6y ago
I’m still stunned at how bad Windows search is. They’ve been trying to get this right since they begun development of Windows Vista nearly 20 years ago. Meanwhile in OS X land, their 16-year-old search implementation has always been so good that in a lot of cases, the file manager isn’t necessary to find even the most obscure and poorly organized documents.
- bmn__ 6y ago
  > They’ve been trying to get this right Company politics interfered with the work on database as file system, one of Longhorn's greater ideas. I can't remember the specifics, it's on Slashdot somewhere, can't find it anymore. > their 16-year-old search implementation … is Giampaolo's 22-year-old implementation. http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...
Fannon 6y ago
This is something that is really puzzling to me, how such a basic and useful feature can be broken for years. It's annoying me since the release of Windows 8. Keyboard Launchers like Keypirinha (also used Launchy back in the days) are my current workaround. They can index what the start menu should be indexing and do it right. I also keep my own (synced) folder of shortcuts that I add to the indexing.

smitty1e 6y ago

Pin to the star menu?

innocenat 6y ago
Funny you say that, as I could lunch program with search in Win7 way faster than I can click on pinned menu in Win10.
- OkGoDoIt 6y ago
  I miss the Windows 7 start menu. It really was peak Windows.

shawa_a_a 6y ago

After using Windows 10 for a while I grew similarly fed up. I found OpenShell [1] to be a very faithful replication of the old start menu I'm used to from XP and before. 1: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

nivethan 6y ago
Thanks! Reskinned to look and act like xp. Hopefully I’m not getting stuck in my ways...
LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
I'm using that too, but under W7 in classic aka W2k-look.

spideymans 6y ago

I’m still stunned at how bad Windows search is. They’ve been trying to get this right since they begun development of Windows Vista nearly 20 years ago. Meanwhile in OS X land, their 16-year-old search implementation has always been so good that in a lot of cases, the file manager isn’t necessary to find even the most obscure and poorly organized documents.

bmn__ 6y ago
> They’ve been trying to get this right Company politics interfered with the work on database as file system, one of Longhorn's greater ideas. I can't remember the specifics, it's on Slashdot somewhere, can't find it anymore. > their 16-year-old search implementation … is Giampaolo's 22-year-old implementation. http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...

Fannon 6y ago

This is something that is really puzzling to me, how such a basic and useful feature can be broken for years. It's annoying me since the release of Windows 8. Keyboard Launchers like Keypirinha (also used Launchy back in the days) are my current workaround. They can index what the start menu should be indexing and do it right. I also keep my own (synced) folder of shortcuts that I add to the indexing.