Thursday, July 2nd 2020
Microsoft Gives Windows 10 Start Menu an Overhaul
Microsoft is giving the Windows 10 OS some finishing touches still, as a lot of UI is slowly changing over time. For example, just a few months back we have received a new icon pack that brought the material design to Windows 10 icons. However, now Microsoft is going even further in its mission to blend UI elements and give users the best possible viewing pleasure. This time, Microsoft is giving the start menu an overhaul. "We are freshening up the Start menu with a more streamlined design that removes the solid color backplates behind the logos in the apps list and applies a uniform, partially transparent background to the tiles. This design creates a beautiful stage for your apps, especially the Fluent Design icons for Office and Microsoft Edge, as well as the redesigned icons for built-in apps like Calculator, Mail, and Calendar that we started rolling out earlier this year."
It is available in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20161 and should come to mainstream later on. If you want to splash a bit of color (see images below) you can apply that theme by going to Settings > Personalization > Color, then toggle the "Show accent color on the following surfaces" for "Start, taskbar, and action center". Below, you can check before and after comparison between old and new designs, along with the new color theme.
Source:
Microsoft Blog
It is available in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20161 and should come to mainstream later on. If you want to splash a bit of color (see images below) you can apply that theme by going to Settings > Personalization > Color, then toggle the "Show accent color on the following surfaces" for "Start, taskbar, and action center". Below, you can check before and after comparison between old and new designs, along with the new color theme.
53 Comments on Microsoft Gives Windows 10 Start Menu an Overhaul
What's really sad is that as I'm writing this, Open Shell is using 1.8MB of RAM while the normal start menu is using 18MB.
Yeah, but Explorer.exe also contains other parts of the UI, like the taskbar or the desktop. It's not just the Start Menu.Nevermind
compared to...
Explorer is under Windows processes and is obviously using more resources.
While doing that little bit of research, though, I also learned that the "responsibility" for the Start Menu is now split between Explorer (which provides the taskbar, mostly), Start Menu Experience Host, Shell Infrastructure Host and Windows Shell Experience Host.
Your RAM usage may vary, though. I imagine the number of dynamic tiles, total number of tiles and the amount of animations and graphical effects enabled have some influence in the final number.
I don't have particular problems with the current tile menu... but I must admit, I don't really use it rigorously even if I spent time adding all those game exes.
What usually happens is I click Steam or EGS and go through the library...
If crackdown 3 worked on windows 7 and MS store was available to use on Windows 7, i would have never switch over to Windows 10. Crackdown 3 and MS store was really the main reason why i switch back to windows 10 though. I always enjoyed using windows 7.
I was actually sort of looking forward to Edge's tabs showing up with Alt-Tab with this build, but that's only rolling out to a subset of Edge users and I'm not one of the lucky ones.
Still todate, Win7 SP1 works superbly fast, same for Win 8.1 but sadly even if the Win8.1 is faster than Win7 it was thrown under bus because no Enterprise used it as they got switched to Win10 WaaS garbage. If M$ provided Win7 SP2 it would definitely outsell their trash as a service TaaS Windows10, they even made Office like that after Office 2016, no more RTM pay per year or GTFO. And as many mentioned already, OpenShell is the solution for this crap, Windows Update Blocker, Defender Blocker, Windows Privacy Dashboard, O&O Shutup10 are the only ways to use this POS OS, which changes every 6 months for the Agile model to make guniea pigs from the Home and Pro users, to demand money from the Enterprise customers for more M$ Special Security updates and other feature garbage.
With constant hijacking of privacy, telemetry shoved in face, and the Win32 with UWP disaster abominations around the corner and that Xbox gamepass GaaS BS computing is going backwards. A shame, new dumb iMessage, and other social media Gen Z crowd is to blame.
ci.appveyor.com/project/passionate-coder/open-shell-menu/build/artifacts
Looking at the screenshots above, Microsoft is trying real hard to butcher something that has died several times over the lifespan of Windows 8-10 even futher.
What is this flat shit? This streamlining is confusing to the eyes at best. I can't even tell what's a button and what isn't anymore.
The kids these days will feel so comfortable, they just press whatever appears on the screen without even thinking is it a box, is it just text, is it supposed to be pressed.
Sadly, Microsoft just thinks about the future but without consideration of what's best for which audience.
I still have Foobar2000 around and is the only thing I use regularly. It still gets regular updates, even.
Yeah I've lived without open shell but looks like since ms killed my immersed floating search bar "minimal search bar" I used on 1909 with this tweak to minimize the dreadful winkey+s search nonsense looks like open shell will have to be used or start 10 on 2004
www.tenforums.com/tutorials/98610-enable-disable-floating-immersive-search-bar-windows-10-a.html