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trag3dy, on 16 August 2012 - 20:51, said:
Did you really spend all that much time organizing your start menu? Did you really? Because I'm betting you spent less than 3 minutes a day doing that. Probably not even 3 minutes a week.
I don't know about your Windows 7, but when I install a new program it put's it in it's own folder in the start menu that is highlighted, and wonders of wonders, is listed alphabetically. Or you can hit that magical start button you guys are fond of and type two or three letters to find exactly what you're looking for.
I think one thing you do a lot is exaggerate, but spending time organizing your start menu? Not so much.
I don't know about your Windows 7, but when I install a new program it put's it in it's own folder in the start menu that is highlighted, and wonders of wonders, is listed alphabetically. Or you can hit that magical start button you guys are fond of and type two or three letters to find exactly what you're looking for.
I think one thing you do a lot is exaggerate, but spending time organizing your start menu? Not so much.
The point I am making is that I no longer have to spend ANY time organizing it.
You generally have to spend more time organizing it in an enterprise/corporate setting because you have far more applications to keep track of (or shortcuts to onside/offsite applications for the really large enterprises); however, it's something you do during downtimes (or when things are slow). However, I still see it as basically *fiddlework* and *ploddery*, and I resent having to do it at all. With Windows 8, that has been absolutely and thoroughly banished.
Do you remember the long-discussed *Cairo* project, which was based on an object-oriented (SQL-like, in other words) file system? I still remember the discussion about that, and we haven't gotten there *yet* - despite SQL Server. merely as a Microsoft product, being itself nearly twenty years old. Worse, the same *backward-compatibility* albatross has kept the Jet database engine around far longer than it should have; what makes me angrier is that the old chestnut about it being what Microsoft Access supports best hasn't even been true since 1997! Backward-compatibility - the *third rail* of IT - is like Social Security (or Medicare) in US politics - touch it and get electrocuted. However, the Start Screen, unlike the Start menu - is searchable, and it uses a *natural* search mechanism - which the Start menu has lacked. That likely wouldn't have happened with the Start menu, as *tradition* and *backward-compatibility* would have gotten in the way.
