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I have just bought a dirt cheap Windows 10 tablet, specifically to test an app before I port it to Android and possibly to iStuff later (much later).
Having grown out of Fisher Price stuff a little while ago, I would appreciate any suggestions for a classic start menu, but one that is usable on an eight inch tablet. I fear the classic shell I am currently using would be a little too fiddly on a touch screen.
Any suggestions please?
You have plenty of time, as I am now updating Win10. 
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Just right click the title above each set of tiles, and select "remove from start menu" (or similar, I dumped 'em all immediately Win 10 was installed).
The Fisher Price look will vanish, and you get just the "normal" start menu, and a task bar - the icons on which come in two sizes: "normal" and "small", just right click and select "Taskbar settings" then uncheck "Use small taskbar buttons", that may be enough.
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Thanks for all that - as soon as the update is done, I'll give it a shot. I have always just downloaded and installed Classic Shell, and never investigated tweaking the supplied menu.
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Err ... very basic question - how the devil do you right click anything on a touch screen? 
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With your right hand!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Ah - OK - thanks for that. I'll check it out as soon as the update is finished. I'm sure it'll work out just fine. Thinking about it, could I still use my left hand, if I stood on the other side of the tablet?
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Come on! You can not fool AI!!!
By the way - who guarantee you the update WILL finish?
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Actually, I have just got the message "Restoring your previous version of Windows".
This does not bode well. 
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I know someone who would give a hand for that message... 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Nah, just press F10!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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in my phone is a long (time) press
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Long press - press and hold - works with most things.
If it doesn't, try long press then tap with a different finger at the same time. That works with some apps as well.
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Yeah, well, it's all a bit specious, 'cos the thing's temporarily bricked.
Plugged it in and waited until the charge light went out.
Booted up and did the usual Win10 first boot stuff.
Told me it had to update now - no option to do otherwise.
Plug in the charger again, knowing it would take some time.
Get on with stuff.
Click the power button to see progress, but it does a cold start.
Screen tells me 'Restoring previous OS'.
Repeatedly fails, so go to boot menu - need to reinstall.
Currently downloading Win10 for a USB stick re-install.
The problem is simple - the idiots who packed it put a 1.3 amp charger in the box, instead of a 2 amp - battery died during the update (2 to 3 hours before I checked progress) and screwed the pooch. 
Teach me to go cheapskate and get a refurbished item from eBay, but I only need it for week or so!
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Chris C-B wrote: I would appreciate any suggestions for a classic start menu, but one that is usable on an eight inch tablet. I fear the classic shell I am currently using would be a little too fiddly on a touch screen.
Yes, it's called the default built-in Start menu.
Seriously...not to defend it (I despise it as much as anyone else), but that was the whole point of the "new" start menu. The older one wasn't well suited for a small-screen, touch device, so this is what they've introduced it for.
Unless you're going to be using your tablet all the time, why not stick with what's built in, so that way, you can test it in an environment that's more likely to match the one your users are going to be using?
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Before the crowbar was invented, crows used to drink at home.
Ba dum tsss
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Ahh, the same story as with the flybar. Yes, that's really a word.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: flybar. Yes, that's really a word.
Did the research and can confirm 
I know it as a Pogo stick.
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Only when that pogo stick rotates[^]. Look under semirigid. Yes, that's a word too and not even anything sexual. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If they stick together when returning home, they're velcrows.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Crowbars also require two forms of ID and are cash only. What a carrion.
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They're all raven' about it now.
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I thought they were all shut down due to the frequent murders.
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(3, 3, 3, 1, 4)
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