Originally Posted By: gathermewool
Originally Posted By: NHHEMI
Originally Posted By: glock19
Originally Posted By: NHHEMI
I do a lot of cross platform work and it is a lot easier on me when I can find what I need in similar places. START>CONTROL PANEL>SERVICE = done is much faster than typing out a name.
You can find and click those 3 things faster than you can hit the Windows key and type control panel? In fact, on my Windows 10 installation just hitting the Windows key and typing the letter C brings up the control panel. I assure you that's the fastest way to get there.
This isn't unique to Windows either. Every platform, including Linux and OSX all use search now (Spotlight, Synapse, etc.).
Clicking Start and then Control Panel from the menu that appears literally takes less than a second. The control panel menu, especially when in a classic Windows layout, is very easy to find the service you want. Click click click almost as fast as you just read that. I don't have to type anything.
There is nothing wrong with the other way you and some others talk of if that works for you and it is an optional way of doing it along with the traditional method. I don't understand taking away how it has been done for ever in Windows though. Makes no sense to me. It was a system that worked and was used across multiple versions of their OS so why drop it and go completely different? I do not consider this new way an improvement at all. The fact these 3rd party software programs exist to provide a classic Windows start menu is a testament to the fact I am far from alone in feeling this way.
If you don't like change, then, like I said, stick with the older OS or find some shell you like, as you have. No one said you were alone. I'll counter, however, with the fact that Web TV existed for people like my gramma, for whom I spent literally HOURS teaching all about the intricacies of...the mouse; yep, how a mouse cursor works. She was so upset that her new (to her) Windows XP machine didn't work like her Web TV, which was so much simpler...to her...at that one moment in time. After a while, she began to BRAG about her computer skills!
With that said, there's no way you can "literally" click on control panel in less than one second, unless you move your mouse to where it will be located ahead of time, and then hit the Windows, effectively gaming the click.
For me, hitting the Windows key and then typing, say, "device manager" takes less time than hitting the Windows key, clicking on the control panel, and then finding out which selection will lead me to the device manager.
Again, to each his or her own, but if your argument is efficiency, you've unfortunately lost your leg to stand on if you have Windows 7 or 10 (I don't have much experience with 8 or 8.1.) It really is as simple as that. And, with Windows 10 being so close to Windows 7, I can't see any one claiming anymore than the loss of visible buttons for those who like to click through to get to anywhere, which is undeniably less efficient, even if more satisfying to older users or those who couldn't care less about having to memorize complicated typing procedures...
We clearly disagree and you apparently know everything so let's just drop it. My final comments to you will be...
1 - Yes, I can click Start and then Control Panel in less than a second( ok one full second - happy? ). Control Panel is a listed option, and has been for a LONG time in Windows OS's, in the start menu on the right hand side. Long time Windows users know where to go when they need to access the CP. Well, they did until MS in their infinite wisdom removed it in Windows 10( you can right click the start button to access it as another pointed out in Windows 10 - I didn't know that at the time - I still prefer it in the Start menu itself though ). When you click Start the menu appears just above the button instantly and you simply slide the cursor up to the right to the Control Panel option. It takes no time at all. It certainly is faster than clicking the windows key and then typing in Control Panel even if my "less than a second" comment was exaggerated( and I figured a reasonable person would understand it was ). Once Control Panel is open I know where everything is and it takes me no time to bring up the service I want to use.
2 - This thread wasn't about should I use a 3rd party program or not to enable a classic start menu. I wasn't asking for that kind of opinion but as is the norm on BITOG people feel the need to force their views on others even when not asked for. I asked if anyone had experience with the one I talked about not should I use it or not.
3 - I lost no leg to stand on. I am more efficient with a traditional Windows user interface than this new Windows 10 way. I still feel they should leave some things alone. Windows 10 and all of it's improvements could have been made while keeping a classic user experience. I am not against change but change for change sake doesn't make it better. I do not agree this new way is faster or better either although you can if you wish. It is simply your opinion.
You use the computer your way and I will mine. Now let's move on shall we unless you have a response specific to the question I asked.