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fucking bring the folder menu back for start. win 7 had it perfect. everything else is stupid. it is not even nostalgia, it just worked.

aquir 2y ago
Back then, when I was using Windows my Start Menu was empty, I just used Search all the time. Of course, you have to disable all the other search features like web search and suggestions etc.
kypro 2y ago
Win 98 was basically perfect imo... Everything about that UI was simple and predictable. Menus were descriptive and information dense. No unnecessary widgets and fancy UI. If you're looking for pure productivity then Win 98 was great. XP and 7 were great too, but they had more unnecessary UI junk while becoming overly minimalistic where it matters. I strongly disagreed with removing the "Start" button and replacing it with the four squares button for example. And presumably they only did that because some UI dude thought it looked better... It's not like modern screens don't have room for the text.
- reginald78 2y ago
  To me 2000 was the peak since it combined stability of NT with 98 UI and plug and play (which had gotten over its ugly early period). Also 98/2000 had a file search that actually worked, even if it was slow. XP added an animated dog to it.
- nicman23 2y ago
  nah i like the search it had
princevegeta89 2y ago
Kind of insane that the right-click menu took about 2 seconds to show up after right-clicking on the desktop. I don't know if it was ever fixed, but that was my impression after trying to understand Windows 10.
daemin 2y ago
With some customisations from the default settings the Windows 10 start menu works best for me, better than Windows 7, better than Windows 11. Scrollable folder view on the left, pane of shortcuts on the right. Sure they're the panels from Windows 8 but they work really well. I can right click on most icons on the panel and either open a document or go into a specific configuration easily and directly. For example Terminal and Putty.
billfor 2y ago
Windows Open Shell will give you the folder menu back.
hollandheese 2y ago
I'm still going to say that Windows 2000 and below had the best Start Menus. The XP/Vista/7 Start Menus were way too busy.

aquir 2y ago

Back then, when I was using Windows my Start Menu was empty, I just used Search all the time. Of course, you have to disable all the other search features like web search and suggestions etc.

kypro 2y ago

Win 98 was basically perfect imo... Everything about that UI was simple and predictable. Menus were descriptive and information dense. No unnecessary widgets and fancy UI. If you're looking for pure productivity then Win 98 was great. XP and 7 were great too, but they had more unnecessary UI junk while becoming overly minimalistic where it matters. I strongly disagreed with removing the "Start" button and replacing it with the four squares button for example. And presumably they only did that because some UI dude thought it looked better... It's not like modern screens don't have room for the text.

reginald78 2y ago
To me 2000 was the peak since it combined stability of NT with 98 UI and plug and play (which had gotten over its ugly early period). Also 98/2000 had a file search that actually worked, even if it was slow. XP added an animated dog to it.
nicman23 2y ago
nah i like the search it had

princevegeta89 2y ago

Kind of insane that the right-click menu took about 2 seconds to show up after right-clicking on the desktop. I don't know if it was ever fixed, but that was my impression after trying to understand Windows 10.

daemin 2y ago

With some customisations from the default settings the Windows 10 start menu works best for me, better than Windows 7, better than Windows 11. Scrollable folder view on the left, pane of shortcuts on the right. Sure they're the panels from Windows 8 but they work really well. I can right click on most icons on the panel and either open a document or go into a specific configuration easily and directly. For example Terminal and Putty.

billfor 2y ago

Windows Open Shell will give you the folder menu back.

hollandheese 2y ago

I'm still going to say that Windows 2000 and below had the best Start Menus. The XP/Vista/7 Start Menus were way too busy.