Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

My main problem though is with Dexpot, the best virtual desktop app
for Window I ever found. Recently the Desktop Manager ribbon has
become awfully minute on a couple of my Win 10 PCs.
No developments since 2017 and even folks who've donated can't get a
solution to this problem implemented.

Is there anything like a standard way of enlarging a certain feature
of such a program, that could be done by outside influences?
--

Mike

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On 12/01/2023 in message <jfuvrh5b88jt2d3fkvcedbuie6d6s0m96h@4ax.com> Mike Halmarack wrote:

Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

Now open source and going strong:

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

--
Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

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On 12/01/2023 12:30, Mike Halmarack wrote:

Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

My main problem though is with Dexpot, the best virtual desktop app
for Window I ever found. Recently the Desktop Manager ribbon has
become awfully minute on a couple of my Win 10 PCs.
No developments since 2017 and even folks who've donated can't get a
solution to this problem implemented.

I'd make a Linux-window hybrid, having virtualised windows as a
subsystem to a saner linux desktop environment, delivering multiple
windows application window frames over either RDP or VNC.

The entire opposite to Microsoft's WSL intentions, it's what I do daily
- main machine is Debian XFCE, with windows stuff occasionally popping
up and dismissed.

Is there anything like a standard way of enlarging a certain feature
of such a program, that could be done by outside influences?

Crap native way. Stick the ribbon under the windows magnifier
application? :-p

There is even an API for that but it is 32-bit only, and probably
renders a pixelated mess.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/magapi/magapi-intro




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Adrian C

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On 12 Jan 2023 14:08:40 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:

On 12/01/2023 in message <jfuvrh5b88jt2d3fkvcedbuie6d6s0m96h@4ax.com> Mike >Halmarack wrote:

Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win >>10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

Now open source and going strong:

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

Ta muchly
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Mike

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:28:05 +0000, Adrian Caspersz
<email@here.invalid> wrote:

On 12/01/2023 12:30, Mike Halmarack wrote:

Classic Shell for instance. It does still work ATM but is said to be
at the end of its development. Does anyone think that the standard Win
10/11 start menu is structured for the user's benefit? I can't see it.

My main problem though is with Dexpot, the best virtual desktop app
for Window I ever found. Recently the Desktop Manager ribbon has
become awfully minute on a couple of my Win 10 PCs.
No developments since 2017 and even folks who've donated can't get a
solution to this problem implemented.

I'd make a Linux-window hybrid, having virtualised windows as a
subsystem to a saner linux desktop environment, delivering multiple
windows application window frames over either RDP or VNC.

The entire opposite to Microsoft's WSL intentions, it's what I do daily
- main machine is Debian XFCE, with windows stuff occasionally popping
up and dismissed.

Is there anything like a standard way of enlarging a certain feature
of such a program, that could be done by outside influences?

Crap native way. Stick the ribbon under the windows magnifier
application? :-p

There is even an API for that but it is 32-bit only, and probably
renders a pixelated mess.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/magapi/magapi-intro

Thanks for the interesting, if big job, solutions.
--

Mike

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On 13/01/2023 18:28, Adrian Caspersz wrote:

I'd make a Linux-window hybrid, having virtualised windows as a
subsystem to a saner linux desktop environment, delivering multiple
windows application window frames over either RDP or VNC.

I've switched to Linux, and put my old Windows install from my old PC in
a VM.

A few things don't work - I haven't yet got it to talk to my PVR over
the network, and it won't talk to the USB digitiser I want to grab all
my VHS tapes. But I'm sure I'll work it out in the end...

Andy

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