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Peak UX! Damn I miss it

I still think that the UI of Windows 2000 was better. Windows 2000 had also better usability for keyboard users since you can be extremely productive without a mouse. I think it is the last versions where they really cared about keyboard users. For example latter versions added extra information to Explorer and that had the resukt of requiring extra keystrokes to move from the path bar to the file list.

Anyway I am digressing... I came here to say that while the Css is very cool, it seems to introduce strange delays. On my android phone actions on tabs, checkboxes and radio buttons give a result at least one second after i click them.

I miss the old start menu. I now have to remember the complete names of programs I have installed, as win 10 search won’t find partial matches all the time

After using Windows 10 for a while I grew similarly fed up. I found OpenShell [1] to be a very faithful replication of the old start menu I'm used to from XP and before.

1: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

Thanks! Reskinned to look and act like xp. Hopefully I’m not getting stuck in my ways...

I'm using that too, but under W7 in classic aka W2k-look.

I’m still stunned at how bad Windows search is. They’ve been trying to get this right since they begun development of Windows Vista nearly 20 years ago.

Meanwhile in OS X land, their 16-year-old search implementation has always been so good that in a lot of cases, the file manager isn’t necessary to find even the most obscure and poorly organized documents.

> They’ve been trying to get this right

Company politics interfered with the work on database as file system, one of Longhorn's greater ideas. I can't remember the specifics, it's on Slashdot somewhere, can't find it anymore.

> their 16-year-old search implementation

… is Giampaolo's 22-year-old implementation.

http://enwp.org/Dominic_Giampaolo https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-b...

This is something that is really puzzling to me, how such a basic and useful feature can be broken for years. It's annoying me since the release of Windows 8.

Keyboard Launchers like Keypirinha (also used Launchy back in the days) are my current workaround. They can index what the start menu should be indexing and do it right. I also keep my own (synced) folder of shortcuts that I add to the indexing.

Pin to the star menu?

Funny you say that, as I could lunch program with search in Win7 way faster than I can click on pinned menu in Win10.

I miss the Windows 7 start menu. It really was peak Windows.

I loved the Media Center Edition theme :-)

Don't forget the zune theme with the orange start button and the black taskbar!

Edit: or the embedded blue theme!

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