In Windows 10 ever since Windows 8 days I've pinned a folder to the start menu and used that folder as a pullout start menu for my application shortcuts.
I'm told that Microsoft hasn't told anyone that they secretly removed this because Microsoft wanted people to use only the menus that Microsoft
provided - and not their own customized menus.
As a direct result of Microsoft attempt to get rid of custom menus, I'm
told anyone who had a pinned menu on Windows 10 lost that capability to run their own menus off the task bar when they migrated from Windows 10 to Windows 11.
Is that correct?
I can't imagine Microsoft being that sleazy, but maybe they would be that sleazy given how few the people out there that use the barely customizable menus Microsoft provides.
I'm still on Windows 10 and I will NOT move to Windows 11 if Microsoft has really destroyed the last capability of people managing their own menus.
But when I google, I find information that seems to say that Microsoft
tried but failed to remove the capability of people having custom menus. https://www.trustedreviews.com/how-to/how-to-pin-apps-or-folders-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-11-4292976
That implies you can pin a folder to the task bar in Windows 11, just like you can in Windows 10. If that folder contains a hierarchy of folders that themselves contain shortcuts, isn't that the Win10 cascade menu on Win11?
Or is that Win11 folder a "dead folder" in that it won't cascade like an accordion as it did on Win10 (and on every other Windows since 95)?
But when I google, I find information that seems to say that Microsoft
tried but failed to remove the capability of people having custom menus.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/how-to/how-to-pin-apps-or-folders-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-11-4292976
That implies you can pin a folder to the task bar in Windows 11, just like >> you can in Windows 10. If that folder contains a hierarchy of folders that >> themselves contain shortcuts, isn't that the Win10 cascade menu on Win11?
Or is that Win11 folder a "dead folder" in that it won't cascade like an
accordion as it did on Win10 (and on every other Windows since 95)?
Install Open-Shell.
MikeS <mikes@is.invalid> said:
But when I google, I find information that seems to say that Microsoft
tried but failed to remove the capability of people having custom menus. >>> https://www.trustedreviews.com/how-to/how-to-pin-apps-or-folders-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-11-4292976
That implies you can pin a folder to the task bar in Windows 11, just like >>> you can in Windows 10. If that folder contains a hierarchy of folders that >>> themselves contain shortcuts, isn't that the Win10 cascade menu on Win11? >>>
Or is that Win11 folder a "dead folder" in that it won't cascade like an >>> accordion as it did on Win10 (and on every other Windows since 95)?
Install Open-Shell.
Just as only the clueless idiots who didn't know anything about Windows installed Classic Shell (or whatever the name morphed to) it's ludicrous to install Open Shell to pin an expanding folder to the Win11 task bar menu.
People who use those hacks are always those who know nothing about Windows.
Pinning expanding menu folders-of-menus to the Windows 11 taskbar is easy. https://www.makeuseof.com/windows-11-taskbar-pin-almost-anything/
People who use those hacks are always those who know nothing about Windows.
Wrong. I use Classic Shell in W8.1 & could use Open Shell in W10 & W11
for its convenience not because I can't do it another way.
wasbit <wasbit@nowhere.invalid> said:
People who use those hacks are always those who know nothing about Windows. >>Wrong. I use Classic Shell in W8.1 & could use Open Shell in W10 & W11
for its convenience not because I can't do it another way.
I respectfully disagree on that as people who used Classic Shell didn't
know how Windows worked since the pinning of folders never left Windows.
They "thought" it did.
But it didn't.
None of them knew they could pin a cascading menu folder to the taskbar.
Of course, Classic Shell did MORE than just re-create the WinXP Start Menu. So you may have used Classic Shell for MORE than just re-create the menu.
But most people who installed Classic Shell were stupid.
Same here with Open Shell.
It's the same people who install unnecessary tools like screenshotters.
Many even pay $25 for a screenshot program on Windows.
They are always the same people who install these unnecessary shells.
You can pin an expanding menu folder onto the Windows 11 task bar instead.
They are always the same people who install these unnecessary shells.As pointed out by wasbit Open/Classic Shell makes many customisations
You can pin an expanding menu folder onto the Windows 11 task bar instead. >>
fast and easy. I could cut my grass with a pair of scissors but I don't.
I use a lawnmower because its faster and easier.
But when I google, I find information that seems to say that Microsoft
tried but failed to remove the capability of people having custom menus.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/how-to/how-to-pin-apps-or-folders-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-11-4292976
That implies you can pin a folder to the task bar in Windows 11, just like >> you can in Windows 10. If that folder contains a hierarchy of folders that >> themselves contain shortcuts, isn't that the Win10 cascade menu on Win11?
Or is that Win11 folder a "dead folder" in that it won't cascade like an
accordion as it did on Win10 (and on every other Windows since 95)?
Install Open-Shell.
The people who resort to these unnecessary hacks are always people who
don't know anything about Windows - they only follow the advertising.
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