Show 2 more comments. DirectoryInfo Environment. GetFolderPath Environment. FileInfo IO. Combine diStartMenu. Nasenbaer Nasenbaer 4, 10 10 gold badges 46 46 silver badges 84 84 bronze badges. Do not read it off the registry. Use documented APIs instead. These values aren't created until certain Shell APIs are called.
You will discover this if you start from a fresh install of Windows and add system restore to your test process. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.
Sign up using Email and Password. See screen shot below. Below are two screenshots of the menus that slide up and down and not out to the right. No menus pop out to the right as in previous versions of Windows. They overlay each menu as you click on them. There are quite a few programs that come with Vista that allow you to be productive right away. Windows Calendar allows you to create basic appointments and to-do lists. It interacts with your Windows Contacts as well.
Windows Contacts is shown below. It is integrated with Windows Calendar and Windows Mail. Your previous knowledge will help you appreciate the improvements, and the neat new touches that Vista brings to the desktop, Start menu and Windows Explorer.
With the new Start Menu, you will have fun clicking on the Aero graphics and discovering where to find both new features and old friends. Adapting to the new Vista shell, is hard work, but only in the sense that there is a lot to explore. The new menus teach you far better than I could. I admit that one of my personal foibles is that I prefer to figure Explorer and Desktop menus myself, than have someone show me.
Therefore, in the case of the Start menu, Desktop and Explorer I recommend to you adopt the same learn-by-doing method. Nowhere are the differences greater than the way people treat their desktop and Explorer preferences. See the latest Windows 8 Start menu. Observe how Vista populates the dialog box with names of programs that match the first few letters that you type, and thus avoid irritating typos. As I am keen to emphasise, no one Vista feature is earth shattering, but together the tiny improvements add up to more fun and greater productivity.
See more here for information on Where is the Vista run command. Allied to the start menu are the desktop setting. Once again, knowledge of XP is useful, but there are subtle difference and extra sub menus.
In Windows 7, the start menu was slightly changed. The power options section now say 'Shut Down' instead of the icons used in Windows Vista. In Windows 8, the start button has been completely dropped, and now the system auto-launched into the start screen at boot.
When switching to desktop, you can go back to the start screen by highlighting your mouse to the bottom-left of the screen or by clicking the Windows button on your Windows-button-enabled keyboard. The start screen groups things differently as well, and things can be dragged and dropped. The old start menu is able to be restored by programs developed by third-parties like Startisback.
In Windows 10, the Start Menu has been restored with a interface similar to that of Windows 7, but with the second column consisting of live tiles. Default Start Menu for Windows 10X. Microsoft Wiki Explore. Windows families. Windows Windows 11 Windows 10 Windows 8. Windows CE Windows Embedded. Microsoft Surface. European Union Microsoft antitrust case United States v.
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