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[free] Start Menu 10 Pro
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MilesAhead:
BTJ still has Start Menu 10 Pro for free
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/start-menu-10/in=today-100-percent
I am not sure what features Pro has over the Free version except for the user categories of folder sets. I got a free Start Menu X Pro in the past and it was just too much work to set up my own categories. I am going to take a look for a feature comparison chart.
But anyway, on my Windows 8.0 I found that having Start Menu 10 start with Windows and automatically skip Start Screen did not work for me. I disabled autostart and load it with a delayed loader program I wrote(Delayed Cuts.) I have the Desktop Tile in the top left of the Start Screen so all I have to do is hit Enter anyway. No biggie.
Start Menu 10 does have a recently run programs panel that actually seems to put some recently run program there for reuse. It can be handy for some stuff buried deep in the start menu.
I was using the free version but for nothing I could resist installing the pro. There is no registration. Whey you "purchase" it from BTJ you get a download link and four days to install it. From what they say it will not install after that. So get it into your backup image. :)
Edit: I found the comparison chart
IainB:
I'm still trialling it, but I would suggest you give some thought to using Listary together with FARR instead of Start Menu 10, which looks to me rather like a waste of space from the blurb.
To escape the dreaded Metro-like interface aspects of Win10, I use the excellent Classic Start Menu anyway, and would have no need of Start Menu 10.
MilesAhead:
I'm still trialling it, but I would suggest you give some thought to using Listary together with FARR instead of Start Menu 10, which looks to me rather like a waste of space from the blurb.
To escape the dreaded Metro-like interface aspects of Win10, I use the excellent Classic Start Menu anyway, and would have no need of Start Menu 10.
-IainB (May 27, 2016, 09:15 AM)
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I tried Classic Shell(is that the same thing?) and I got some flaky behavior. Mainly I use Start Menu 10 for shortcut search of stuff that is not used often. And now and then I get a hit on the Recently Used programs panel.
I did FARR for a few years. But one reason I got away from a dedicated launcher is that someone mentioned you can start typing in a folder and Windows will select the icon with the name. That was most of what slowed me down. Looking through a maze of icons trying to remember what the logo for the program was etc..
I use Everything Search for general file search. I don't have much need for file content search. But if I do I usually go with SearchMyFiles.
Mostly I have a start menu so that I can Winkey r to get the run line for stuff like shell:startup to open the user startup folder. Stuff that is a pain if you cannot use the shell prefix to open it.
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