At least as of W2K, the start menu was configurable.

Post #418,145 by CRConrad 5/15/17 4:52:37 AM 5/15/17 4:52:37 AM Reply	At least as of W2K, the start menu was configurable. Just drag stuff you use most often into the primary menu, and shut up with your lying "[n]ever had what I was looking for on it without delving into a dwarf pit of sub menus" BS. Nope. The W8/W10 UI just sucks. Horrible horrible horrible. Got the sprog a laptop for Christmas; one of the reasons I picked a Lenovo was because it had a W7 option. -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #418,155 by pwhysall 5/15/17 3:34:25 PM 5/15/17 3:34:25 PM Reply	As it is on W10. I find the W7 start menu horrifically limiting. In practical terms, you can pin about a dozen or so apps to the Windows 7 start menu. It's pretty basic. You can't even do a web search or basic sums in the search box. But you can run W7 if you like. I like having more performance on the same hardware. (My work laptop has 7 on it, lest you think I'm some kind of mixed-version masochist at home) Every piece of annoyance in W10 is 100% mitigated by the menu you get when you right-click the start button. What's that? Sorry. Can't hear you over the sound of me starting an admin PowerShell prompt in 2 clicks. On a more serious note, older versions of Windows will slide into irrelevance as high-DPI displays become mainstream. I dunno if you've used one, but this here XPS has a 3200x1800 display at 13"; this means I run Windows at 250% scaling. Text basically looks like print; images are deliciously crisp. And, ironically, at these resolutions and scales, the whole MacOS vs Windows font smoothing question basically goes out of the window. Windows early than 8 is a bit of a shitshow at these high resolutions; you can dial things up to about 150%, but that's not nearly enough, and many apps end up looking like complete disasters - Windows 10 is much better at dealing with legacy and ill-behaving apps that don't obey the scaling rules.
Post #418,231 by CRConrad 5/19/17 3:11:55 AM 5/19/17 3:11:55 AM Reply	Resolution? I'll give you Dell screen resolution! Got a new MacBook Pro at work a while ago. No DisplayPort (or wossname?), only USB-C, so new "dock" multi-connector dongle... With only HDMI video connector. So my couple-years-old Dell U2713HM now displays glorious 1920x1080. :-( Dragging cmd.exe above the line on the W7 start menu also gives me access to the glorious old "C:\>" command prompt in two clicks, BTW. (And the new "PowerShell" one too, if I wanted; just never got into that language... yet?) -- Christian R. Conrad Same old username (as above), but now on iki.fi (Yeah, yeah, it redirects to the same old GMail... But just in case I ever want to change.)
Post #418,251 by pwhysall 5/20/17 2:35:02 AM 5/20/17 2:35:02 AM Reply	On PowerShell For Windows scripting, it's the future. It's got proper syntax (I know bash, and I also know actual not-congealed-over-decades languages, and bash is fucking horrific), gives you full access to the .net object model, etc. yadda. It's a bit wordy, and you deffo want to use the PowerShell ISE environment at least at first. Example (with a stupid syntax highlighting scheme that makes symbols a delightful salmon-pink-on-white colour): http://www.robvanderwoude.com/sourcecode.php?src=airreg_ps
Post #418,254 by pwhysall 5/20/17 3:41:24 AM 5/20/17 3:41:24 AM Reply	That's bizarre I just hooked up my work Dell E7470 to my own QNix 2710 monitor (1440p) via HDMI, and I got 1440p.
Post #418,232 by static 5/19/17 5:58:14 AM 5/19/17 5:58:14 AM Reply	Huh. Never played with the scaling before in Windows. On my Surface Pro 3, it recommends 150% but since I raised the default size on my phone a few weeks ago (ageing eyes...), I might give 175% a try for a little while. Thank you for the idea. Wade.
Post #418,252 by pwhysall 5/20/17 2:43:55 AM 5/20/17 6:07:05 AM Reply	Re: Huh. It's remarkable. Here's a couple of worked examples. You don't realise the diff until you see them together. You at 100%: You at 250%: And here you are, scaled to the same size: Edited by pwhysall May 20, 2017, 06:07:05 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #418,259 by static 5/20/17 11:31:42 PM 5/20/17 11:31:42 PM Reply	I can already see the difference. The less "wasted whitespace" on Facebook was immediately noticeable. Wade.

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