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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
After 7 years, I finally upgraded to a new PC. All of a sudden, I’m having to relearn how to interact with Windows in a manner I haven’t had to deal with since before WinXP days. Why did they suddenly decide the user shouldn’t be able to move the taskbar?! I used to put it vertical on a secondary monitor. Now I’ve got to mirror the taskbar across each monitor in order to access it while in full screen on my main monitor. That’s the first thing that sucks. Next, where’s the Quickbar?! I’m having to pin everything I use regularly to the Start menu, which means having to click to open that before clicking to open what I need. Even then, I’ve discovered that a couple games/programs won’t pin to the Start menu, so I’ve got to use the Search function for it. Argh! I’ve never been one to keep icons on the desktop, but I’m starting to think I’m going to have to start. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | ||
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A Grateful American |
So, its' Microsoft Mac, again?  "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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To help keep the desktop from getting too messy, I keep a simple folder on the desktop. All the "stuff" that might normally end up on the desktop goes in there instead. It's two more clicks to get to the things I want, but it keeps things somewhat more tidy. Politicians seem to have forgotten that they work for us, not the other way around. — — — — — — — — — — — — God bless America. | |||
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There is a long list of ‘why did they do that’ across OS and apps you’ve yet to discover. A joyful journey it will be. It will exemplify the failings of the modern school system, the erosion of average competency of developers these days, and/or the appalling implications of dei. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars |
That's an excellent workaround. Thanks for the suggestion!
Oh joy. "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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Shall Not Be Infringed |
Since Win7, I just 'Right Click' on the program in the Start Menu and --> 'Pin to Taskbar'. You can't move the 'Quick Launch' toolbar (technically it doesn't exist any more), but this function basically accomplishes the same thing, w/ everything you pin to the Taskbar in the default location, right next to the Start Button. You can Add/Remove/Rearrange at will. ____________________________________________________________ If Some is Good, and More is Better.....then Too Much, is Just Enough !! Trump 47....Making America Great Again! "May Almighty God bless the United States of America" - parabellum 7/26/20 Live Free or Die! | |||
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Not "Kinda". More like, "Totally". | |||
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Try Openshell for windows 11 to make the start menu like win7/win10 Also explorerPatcher will give most of the win7/win10 feel back ---it lets the taskbar work like before Links below: https://github.com/valinet/Exp...7384790/ep_setup.exe https://openshellmenu.com/ | |||
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Make America Great Again |
My wife's laptop has Win11 on it and I don't like it one bit. I'm keeping Win10 on mine until it will no longer run... ____________________________ Bill R. North Alabama _____________________________ Classic West German P-Series Fan... Hammer-Fired Only! | |||
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| The success of a solution usually depends upon your point of view |
Stupid things like renaming a file. Win10: right click > rename file. Win11: right click > more options > rename file. Out of all the options on that menu they couldn’t have moved one of the worthless options to a sub menu? “We truly live in a wondrous age of stupid.” - 83v45magna "I think it's important that people understand free speech doesn't mean free from consequences societally or politically or culturally." -Pranjit Kalita, founder and CIO of Birkoa Capital Management | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
You could do that but what I always do is highlight the file and hit the F2 function key to rename the file. That's always been quicker for me. Also looking at the right click menu on my Windows 11 laptop shows actual buttons for Cut, Copy, Rename, Share and Delete in that menu. Sure the Windows 11 interface is different but it's not that different. It didn't take me long at all to adjust to it for my uses. | |||
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This was my only real complaint about Win 11. Here's how I got back to the old context menu. 1) Right click on cmd terminal icon and run as administrator 2) Paste the following command at the prompt and press enter reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve 3) Restart the file explorer. Wala! The W10 context menu is back. | |||
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That threw me for a bit until I noticed that in Win11 if I right clicked on the file, the menu that came up had across the top (or bottom) a set of icons, one of which was rename.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Ranger41, "The world is too dangerous to live in-not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen." (Albert Einstein) | |||
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My rip will no longer multitask and my USB ports reassign at random. A real pain with all these printers and cutters all screaming no port found at the same time. Yes, the printers REQUIRE an assigned USB port. ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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Honky Lips |
windows 11 is garbage and I'm moving to Linux. Mint or Ubuntu are what I recommend. _____________________________________________ Proverbs 3:31 "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." | |||
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God speed my friend. Let us know in a year or two which one works best for you  | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I don’t understand either of you. When I want to change a file’s name or folder’s name, you have to be looking at the name which is what triggered your thought to change it, right? So what I always do is move my cursor somewhere within the file name, click and hold until it indicates I can edit the name and I change the name. No menu or Fx key for me, just go to direct edit name mode. I do find it interesting they made so many different ways to skin a cat. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| His Royal Hiney |
The Start Menu is your quick bar that you arrange to your liking instead of the full program menu that you scroll through. You also have the option of pinning programs to the task bar. I use that as my quick bar for programs I use frequently like file explorer, my search engine, etc. There’s a third option of pinning programs to a “dynamic” folder in the task bar right next to the calendar on the bottom right corner. It’s where the icons for the programs running in the background but you can also move program icons that you want to start from that menu. A particular program I use this for is the program that log in to the encrypted volume on my hard drive; I don’t want it in the start menu or task bar where anybody can see it. But I can quickly call it up by clicking on the mini icon in that menu. That menu stays hidden until you hover or click on the up arrow. I never did like having icons on my desktop. I like to keep things there to a minimum. I delete program icons that get installed there or tell the installation program not to put one there. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| Honky Lips |
I've been running ubuntu for a while now on a laptop, I'm starting to like it more than windows 10. _____________________________________________ Proverbs 3:31 "Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways." | |||
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I just posted today about potentially needing to "upgrade" to 11 and I am not at all happy about possibly needing to do so. Stuff like this is just one of many reasons I am not looking forward to the possibility.  | |||
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