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<title><![CDATA[By: Donald Urquhart]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116754</link>
<description><![CDATA[I swear, sometimes things like this can really be more of a problem to install and set up than just learning the new start menu would be.  I mean, first you have to download and install it, you have to use a specific skin with it in order to keep it from looking tacky, and then you'll have to do a lot of work to get it set up just the way you're used to from your old operating system.  I've never had any problems transitioning from start menu to start menu, maybe because I don't often use them anyway.  It's easier for me to just create a folder for shortcuts and attach any program I use often to that.  Furthermore, I've noticed that my Windows 7 Start Menu will migrate programs that it notices I use often to it's quick launch area.

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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:57:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: XD]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116753</link>
<description><![CDATA["Users need to adapt to technology"
Actually this means: Users need to adapt to Microsoft's way of doing things and Microsoft's way of thinking.
I'm forced to use Win7 (because of work)but I embrace freedom of choice.
Thank you.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:49:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: SloppyGoat]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116752</link>
<description><![CDATA[@#10 - Rob

I agree completely! I could make a list of all the reasons I don't like the new Win7/Vista style start menu, but why the hell should I have to? I like the classic menu. I use ClassicShell, myself, but the same principle. I could just as easily argue that you should not change your desktop picture from the original one MS chose to give you as default, because you should just accept whatever crap they give you. The argument is just ridiculous. The Win7 menu is awkward, not productive, slows me down, is just ignorant the way it's laid out. Why should I have to click All Programs and then Back, as if they're two separate menus? That's just stupid! And then there's the fact that I don't have the ability to put folders in the first section of the menu, as I did when it was the classic menu, and as I can now with ClassicShell. I love the way my menu is set up. I did try Classic Start Menu too, but I prefer ClassicShell. There is just nothing closer to the real thing and as non-obtrusive. <a href="http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/b766ad28cc.jpg" rel="nofollow">See? Nice and simple!</a> I can make as many submenus as I please and put them wherever I please. You just can't do that with the Win7 menu. After years of setting up my menu my own way, it's rather crippling to have to do it any other way. Sure, I can if I have to, and I do every time I have to work on someone else's computer, but I don't like it. :P]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:38:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: ron]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116750</link>
<description><![CDATA[I didn't want to go all the way back to the classic start menu, but looking at the page 'reminded' me of one of their other related aps "VistaStartMenu". I've used it before ('lost' it during a OS re-install). I had no problems with VistaStartMenu, and have just re-installed it.

The thing I like about VistaStartMenu is that it gets rid of the "dynamic" nature of the start menu, items in the menu stay put until you drag them elsewhere. That dynamic nature is the one thing I hate the most about the new Ribbon gooey (UI). Tabs and commands appear and disappear depending on the specific context. I know the hidden feature is there, but unless I know the "magic formula" to make it appear it is very frustrating trying to access them. You constantly have to think to look at right end of the tab list to make sure nothing new has "popped up". And then you have something like the Word "Outline" tab that shows up at the very left side of the ribbon, before the "Home" tab. No user interface consistency.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:45:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Adamus]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116749</link>
<description><![CDATA[Ad. #1 and to all other People.

I am already using Windows Server 2003 EE and a long time before I have been using Windows 95. What I have remembered from the Win95 was the time needed for showing up the start menu - it was much less than one second, which was really fast. Moreover the start menu in Windows 95 have been showing very quickly even when the system was overloaded with running applications, so I was accustomed to this fast reaction.

The things have changed when I have installed Windows Vista on my computer. I have been shocked, when the Vista's start menu showed up after a few second from the time of pressing the Win key - for me it was like a whole night(!). When the system was overloaded then the thing was even worse - the time of showing up the menu was longer than 10 seconds. BTW: It wasn't hardware issue of slow computer, it was a OS' "feature".

So, after this short comparison we should see that a fast reaction of start menu is a feature that was taken us away. 
On the other hand, the intelligent icon of commonly used application is useful only when we install a few programs like in the first example: program "X" from "A" company, which is installed as "A X" - not as "X" as we like... This is the time, when the search option is also useful.

Summing up: for some people the intelligent start menu from WinVista and from Win7 will be a must-have option, but for other it will be an unnecessary and unintelligent machine feature which shuffles with icons and that generates unbearable lags for the menu. Moreover, there are some things that I can do in Win95's start menu and I can't do in WinVista's start menu.

II am personally not using the Windows Vista nor the Windows 7 at the moment. If I were using it, I would install Classic Start Menu. In my opinion - if only this program is fast as noted - it is worth installing it for some people irritated with WinVista/7.

Moreover this program is useful in Windows 7 and also in Windows Vista, so the sentence "compatible up to Windows 7" is true and makes sense. Fancy button timer feature is also worth mentioning. I am giving him a green light - one point up.

SUMMING UP: (basing on program's features) THIS PROGRAM IS A VERY INTERESTING, BUT UNDER SPECIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR SOME PEOPLE - FOR SURE THIS PROGRAM IS NOT FOR ALL, ESPECIALLY NOT FOR NEW COMPUTER USERS.


Greetings.

P.S. Sorry for my English, but it isn't my primary language.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:31:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: klickitatdave]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116748</link>
<description><![CDATA[I really have to vote with those who do not find Windows 7 Start to be confusing and difficult to use. I've been using Windows OS since before Win 95 and as far as Win 7 goes, for me it was one of the easiest to learn.  What it really comes down to is personal preferences and individual perceptions of this OS. I'm not a fan boy of Microsoft; they certainly have made some pretty bad products, (eg. Window ME) but it is my opinion that they have created a very good OS in Win 7.  Bottom line; if you don't like Windows 7 Start Menu then by all means get this product or a similar product. I'm going to pass on this offering but I'm happy for those who want and/or need it to navigate the Start menu.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:09:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: John D.]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116747</link>
<description><![CDATA[I like to group my start menu in the same way as #19 so this may well be the program I'm looking for. However, I can't find an activate.exe in the download, or in an extensive search of my drives after installation. Neither can I find a way of checking whether it is registered - there's no info on the About page.

John D.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:04:11 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Mags]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116746</link>
<description><![CDATA[Re my post #16

Well, I've given both todays offering and the freebie posted by #6 a tryout.

My preference is for todays offering.  I prefer it over the free one.  It is light on resources, uninstalls very easily, and doesn't leave anything left in the registry after the uninstall.  

I reinstalled it again after trying out the freebie and will continue to use it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:50:56 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: mike]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116745</link>
<description><![CDATA[I held off on looking at Classic Start Menu this morning, waiting to see if another download was released -- the readme.txt is the wrong version &amp; says: "...install the software by running Setup.exe, then run the activation program...". Oops :-) Turns out today's GOTD comes registered, &amp; to find this out you have to open the configuration dialog, then look to the upper left where it says Registration. 

Classic Start Menu gives you an XP style menu in Vista/7, or a 7 style menu in XP -- in XP it has more options &amp; details than the original BTW, so it might be more than a choice based solely on style. Three styles [or skins] are included [Windows Classic, Windows Aero, &amp; Vista Aero], &amp; if you have an urge to express your creativity, you should be able to modify all 3 &amp;/or add more... the styles are individual .zip files, with 1 folder &amp; 2 sub-folders containing image files -- an .xml file [English text but it looks like Russian comments] determines where those images are placed. 

Installation isn't bad, though you have to say no if you don't want to add an additional shareware app. Files &amp; registry entries for Microsoft Search were deleted &amp; rewritten, so it seemed more was going on than actually was -- InstallWatch Pro recorded 164 files &amp; 642 registry entries added in XP Pro SP3 32. Some users, &amp; possibly some A/V software won't like that the app includes VistaHookDll.dll -- a *hook* monitors what you &amp;/or windows is doing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking] (That really is a page about programming -- Honest!). Besides the Start Menu shortcuts, 5 files in 1 folder were added to <em>[UserName]</em> \ Application Data, in the Docs &amp; Setting folder. The program folder itself holds 61 files in 2 folders taking up ~6.5MB -- most of those 61 files are for different languages. In the registry most new entries were stored in HKCU \ Software \ Ordinarysoft -- otherwise you get 1 new class key, 1 new shell extension, &amp; a bunch of Uninstall entries. By default Classic Start Menu is set to start with Windows, but you can turn this on/off in the configuration dialog. 

Running Classic Start Menu you get an icon in the task-bar [next to the clock] that's used mainly to open a preferences dialog where you set up how you want the replacement start menu to look &amp; work. Without a help file or doc -- on-line or off -- you're on your own, though most of the options like setting icons looked as though it wouldn't take forever to figure out.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:06:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: ckc]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/classic-start-menu/#comment-116744</link>
<description><![CDATA[I look forward to the new OS and the changes they bring,good or bad,
but I never go back to the old OS.Why put junk on a new machine to make it look like an old one,I just don't get it.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:52:02 -0400</pubDate>
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