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One great program that I recommend for Windows users looking for a plain vanilla set up is Open-Shell-Menu. https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ https:

One great program that I recommend for Windows users looking for a plain vanilla set up is Open-Shell-Menu. https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/ It replaces the always animating Windows 10 start menu with something more simple.

Philip-J-Fry 5y ago
I love how an application which modifies the UI of windows does not have a single screenshot showing the application on their website. What is going on with this trend?
naikrovek 5y ago
are you aware that software installations and customizations take you further away from "vanilla", rather than closer to it?
- goinfar 5y ago
  Have you tried the classic shell? It is a first for me with any new windows install.
  - bigmadwolf 5y ago
    Open-Shell-Menu is a fork of Classic shell which is no longer updated since December 2017.
  - naikrovek 5y ago
    the windows 10 shell is fine. press and release windows key, type the name of the application you want, press enter. same as windows 7. why would I need a different shell? last time I tried one, almost 20 years ago, it crashed continually and was therefore completely useless. same with all of the stardock software I bought. garbage, all of it.
    - wincy 5y ago
      Except that if it doesn’t find thr application it will search Bing if you aren’t using Windows 10 Enterprise. This can’t be turned off unless you edit the registry. I was furious when I figured this out.
      - FractalParadigm 5y ago
        Years ago I found a great Chrome/FF extension called "Bing2Google" where any search from the start menu that gets sent to either browser is automatically re-directed to Google instead. I was more furious when they changed that to always open Edge instead of your preferred browser.
- Eduard 5y ago
  Sometimes, more is less.
  - naikrovek 5y ago
    sometimes more is less, and sometimes less is more, and neither more nor less are vanilla. this is about "vanilla".

Philip-J-Fry 5y ago

I love how an application which modifies the UI of windows does not have a single screenshot showing the application on their website. What is going on with this trend?

naikrovek 5y ago

are you aware that software installations and customizations take you further away from "vanilla", rather than closer to it?

goinfar 5y ago
Have you tried the classic shell? It is a first for me with any new windows install.
- bigmadwolf 5y ago
  Open-Shell-Menu is a fork of Classic shell which is no longer updated since December 2017.
- naikrovek 5y ago
  the windows 10 shell is fine. press and release windows key, type the name of the application you want, press enter. same as windows 7. why would I need a different shell? last time I tried one, almost 20 years ago, it crashed continually and was therefore completely useless. same with all of the stardock software I bought. garbage, all of it.
  - wincy 5y ago
    Except that if it doesn’t find thr application it will search Bing if you aren’t using Windows 10 Enterprise. This can’t be turned off unless you edit the registry. I was furious when I figured this out.
    - FractalParadigm 5y ago
      Years ago I found a great Chrome/FF extension called "Bing2Google" where any search from the start menu that gets sent to either browser is automatically re-directed to Google instead. I was more furious when they changed that to always open Edge instead of your preferred browser.
Eduard 5y ago
Sometimes, more is less.
- naikrovek 5y ago
  sometimes more is less, and sometimes less is more, and neither more nor less are vanilla. this is about "vanilla".