[dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

[Gustav Brock]

Hi John

Yes, that tiny start menu is a mess, but "the masses" screamed for it - to have it like in Windows 95 to 7. Go figure.

As of Windows 8, the intention of MS is that you start spelling what you are after in the search box, and it will find it at once. Type, say, Remote and it will list Remote Desktop.

For those you often use, drag and drop them on the start pane and organize in groups. It worked perfectly in Windows 8 with the horizontal scroll, but you can live with the vertical scroll in Windows 10.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af John Colby
Sendt: 5. oktober 2015 15:37
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] The likes of which I've never seen before

Not to hijack the thread but I purchased a new All-In-One which came with Windows 8.1.  That offered an upgrade immediately and I did so, which went smoothly.  So I am now on Windows 10 on one of my computers.  Other than the start menu, which still will not show me the folders of apps that 7.1 showed, it is similar enough that I can get my work done.

Where this lack of folders matters is that in the olden days, a program would install and create a group for itself.  It would place all of its programs in that group and add that group to the start menu.  Look in the start menu and select that folder and you could SEE all of the items related to the newly installed program.

The new system does I know not what, but AFAICT it scatters them willy-nilly (in alpha order) according to their name.  Well... if I have just installed this thing with a half dozen parts, how am I supposed to know what the names of all the parts are?

Take office just as an example.  It would have an office folder, including an Office97, Office 2003, Office7 etc.  Inside of each folder would be Office, Excel, Power Point etc.

Nice and neat, I could just select the folder I wanted, then the item in the folder and go.

Now, not so much.

But I am told by those who simply don't care that I liked that system, that I shouldn't like that system so I will submit to their superior(?) wisdom (since I have no choice anyway).

Which does leave me wondering how I am suppose to do those kinds of things in the new system.