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Look at how they massacred my boy…
Your username is a god damn lie, please fix it
Sorry!
That’s not nearly shitty enough. It’s too useful. Look at all the options and other clickable things you got on the start menu, and it only took one click to open it.
That’s not how this works anymore. If this were truly made today, it would be needlessly “streamlined”, i.e. everything is hidden so as not to “clutter up” the UI with useful things, and make more room for…nothing. Just wasted space.
We hide everything behind multiple clicks now because the “average user” starts bleeding out their eyes if they’re forced to see many things at once.
Also, icons. The icons in Windows XP are too recognizable. You need to minimalize them. In fact, minimalize it so hard that not one person could understand what the icon is even referring to.
Abstract art icons.
Folder: rectangle on its side. Start: triangle pointing up. Trash: rectangle standing up.
You could have shorted your comment. Now if you’ll excuse me I have to deal with this eye bleed.
Trending Web searches: Janet Jackson
lol
Whatever happened to her? I can’t even remember the last time I heard anything about Janet Jackson.
Where the crypto and AI bloat?
yea, where are pinned apps in the task bar?
Somehow this still looks better than W11
It’s the full start menu with one click, and the toolbar isn’t needlessly centered, so yeah. I’d actually take this over Win11
You can set the taskbar stuff to stay on the left, at least in the version of win11 I use for work.
Microsoft is a tool bar maker.
That [Yes] [Remind Me Later] thing is so 2007…
Nowadays Windows features all have a definitive [Off] option, that will fully hide the feature from view and only enable a daily message that pops under your mouse so you can turn it back on any time you want.
couldn’t be, the login is a local account rather than an MSN
Honestly if Microsoft reintroduces the skeuomorphic UI I’ll tolerate any bullshit they pull. It’s just objectively pretty IMO.
Also this start menu doesn’t have nearly enough useless negative space. Here is my work Win11 start menu for comparison:
How can it be objectively pretty in your opinion?
Sounds highly subjective to me.
For the record I think it’s ugly.
I was being hyperbolic lol. I just like it.
Unrelated but can Microsoft please update the old rsat tools.
Yes the app “users and computers” work but it could have been so much better if it had a few adjustments like a search bar.
When editing GPOs why the hell can’t I just change an existing setting without opening the editor and digging through the whole damn tree first.
Shame the MS never will improve these tools because on prem is not the cloud.
WinXP was good
I actually liked and used the old pull up menus in Windows. Starting at Win10 I put everything I use on my desktop and avoid as much of Windows functionality as I can and turn off everything I can. I don’t want an Android or IOS type interface on my PC and will go to Linux at some point as Windows pushes that envelope further, or switch to some WinServer type setup where they allow the owner a lot more control of the OS
TIHI
Looks like dad’s laptop after my first experience with limewire
Reminds me of something…
Whoa msn.com still exists. I guess for all the boomers that haven’t moved on
