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Gerry Schmitz wrote: I also don't answer the phone and use a recording machine (if I don't know who you are).
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I use it (rarely) for a company account on O365. I have never seen it do that, but I have seen it do worse. Never hooked it to my gmail account but I have a different account and it no longer pulls email for it and won't let me delete it. Typical Microsoft program: "be reasonable, do it my way". 
That said, I run Linux and use T'bird with Popfile for most of my email, including that O365 account. Not sure Google and Microsoft want to play nicely together.
Are you using Imap or PoP?
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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theoldfool wrote: Are you using Imap or PoP?
No idea. I just went through the connect account feature that wires up gmail automagically.
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Well I finally took the plunge and upgraded today - where has the start menu gone ? how the f*ck do you find anything ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've been running win 11 for a few weeks and still get lost. I'm using Winstep dock so that helps. After figuring out where my shortcuts went. 
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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On my wife's Windows 11 system, it is at the bottom, same as 10. Does anything happen if you tap the "Windows" key?
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Yes a search window pops up but no sidebar menu up the left side like win 10 and before
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Oh, it's probably because your search index needs to rebuild. You can force it or just wait for Windows to do that automatically.
As to why Windows won't show anything until then... well, Windows ain't what it used to be.
Jeremy Falcon
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Oh, and the start menu will appear in the center by default. You can move it to the left though.
Jeremy Falcon
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How ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Right-click on the taskbar and select Properties. It will bring up the new Windows Settings window. Just scroll through all the options and change what you like.
If you use the context menu in Windows Explorer a lot (right-clicking on a file or folder brings this up), then you can change a registry setting to make it appear like the Windows 10 context menu. Google it for details.
Hope that helps.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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The task section is now centered, with the start menu being the left icon.
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Yeah, the menu sucks. Worse that Windows 10.
You can have a look at Stardock's Start 11 or StartAllBack.
I'm using a combination of these for the taskbar:
ExplorerPatcher
7+ Taskbar Tweaker
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I highly recommend installing these 2 free apps to restore one's sanity after upgrading to Win11:
/ravi
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Classic Shell is great - it's the first thing I install on any new machine.
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Me too. Every single time. They continue to regress since Win7. I like XP the most from a UI standpoint but 7 was OK. I despise their current "flat" style and the hacks that come with it.
What I wish is that they allow users to choose a GUI style with XP, 7, and what ever else as options. With those possibilities I would never choose 10 or 11.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I hate to say it but my fav Windows (both from a performance and UI point of view) was Windows 2000.  It was better, stronger, faster than NT with a cleaner look and feel.
Didn't particularly like XP (Fisher Price anyone?).
7 was OK - I actually liked the glass effect.
I skipped 8 (like many of us).
Currently using 10. Seems as stable as any of them but the UI is half baked.
Haven't looked at 11.
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Best thing about W2K was it installed from scratch in under 10 minutes. Having installed, it just worked; never had a blue screen, never had driver issues, never had compatibility issues, and ran like something very runny indeed. No flashy stuff, no hiding stuff; just a simple, consistent, functional interface.
The thing that's really pissing me off with W10 recently is the lack of a border around windows and the white title bar. Sometimes there's no title in the title bar, just blank (on many Windows dialogs) and if you've a screen with a lot of white on it, it's next to impossible to drag or resize the window. And if you miss by a pixel the window you're trying to manipulate disappears as its Z-order pushes it behind what you actually clicked on. [Update: Having vented my spleen on here I finally got around to finding the setting to change this to something more useful. The dialog was horrendous, and took about 30 seconds to update on any change, but at least I now have a 1px border around windows, plus a really horrible-coloured title bar. Why can't they just use a sensible default?] [Update 2: and then MS goes and tramples over its own settings with a non-configurable title bar colour for Edge! You couldn't make it up... ]
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You are sooooo right.
Hard to even tell what program you're using sometimes.
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I started with Windows 1.0x. Didn't start using it regularly until Windows 2.x. These had the flat look. Windows 3.0 gave us more textured windows. XP overinflated them.
I think it sucks that Microsoft has gone back to the pre-Windows 3 days in look. They feel lifeless to me.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Classic Shell - Start menu and other Windows enhancements[^]
Note that Classic Shell is no longer under development and has been replaced by Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu: Classic Shell Reborn.[^]
Highly recommendable!
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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Welcome to how I feel when I am forced at gunpoint to use a Mac.
And given that W11 wants to look like a Mac...well, that's why I've never installed W11 on any of my machines.
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I find stuff by hitting the windows key and start typing. So the exact same way as I have done since Vista.
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