Classic Menu on Start11

No, it is not possible. You have W7, Modern style, W10 and W11.

Windowblinds, does, however. There are at least two with the Windows Classic theme. The one I linked will give you that and more, and so will don5318's. LINK.

Hi, thanks for the answer.

That theme looks great, however, what I really wanted is just a Win95 menu (like open-shell does) and nothing else changed. I use it on Win10 without any problems, but now I have to use Win11 on my work.

Unfurtunately, open-shell is not yet supported on Win11, I tried anyway, and altough it does replace it with a Win95 menu, it does so with some bugs, I even had to restore Win11 from a daily backup, because I tried to organize folders/programs the same way I do it on Win10 and then all the sortcuts vanished.

That's why I researched and came to this Start11 product, it's really excellent, but unfortunately no Win95 classic style menu.

I suppose I could settle with Start11 and "Modern style", but I don't like all the programs listed without sorting by category.

On my Win10+open-shell, I first create various folders on the menu (Office, File Managers, Multimedia, Programming, and so on...), then I move all the programs to their respective category.

Is this possible with Start11+Modern Style? If so, how to do it the best way?

Thanks very much.

I don't think so. You would have to pin the apps to the Start  Menu. 

With Fences, you could create a Fence like those folders you mentioned. A mouse over would opopen the Fence and you could then choose a program. It wouldn't look like W95, though.

Sorry I'm not helping much. A Community Support Assistant will be along, I'm sure and probably help more. Check back later and good luck!  

You can do that using Windows 7 Style.

And Modern Style also:

I also have custom Folders with shortcuts in the right menu. There are nearly endless possibilities.

(Startmenu-Configuration-Quick access side shortcuts (?))

Resulting in this:

But Carl, he's talking about a Start Menu style which doesn't exist in Start11 (nor Start10), so it's sort of like "if granny had wheels she'd be a bus". He wants Windows Classic Start Menu.

"I suppose I could settle with Start11 and "Modern style", but I don't like all the programs listed without sorting by category."

I second this, would be cool to have an additional menu option to choose from. Tie it in to windowblinds as well to be skinnable. Would be a nice feature.

Quoting c242, reply 8

"I suppose I could settle with Start11 and "Modern style", but I don't like all the programs listed without sorting by category."

End of c242's quote

Hi, thanks very much for your suggestions.

About the "quick access shortcuts" it's almost like Win95 (because it's on the right, not on the left), but the delay beforing opening one level down without clicking is way too much.

And about organizing by categories using the "Modern style" menu on the left, using Win10+open-shell, I simply create the categories and move everything accordingly to "C:\Users\raphaelmsx\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu", but when I tried that with Win11+open-shell as I said before, it screwed everything, so, how to do this way with Win11+Start11 "Modern style" menu?

I will also tray the Fences suggestion, but I don't really wanted to buy 2 products to accomplish 1 goal.

Anyway, I'm still deciding which way to go, but thanks so far!

I use these two to make my Startmenu as wanted:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs

And I use Winstep Start Menu Organizer but only because it is part of my Winstep subscription. Standalone ist too expensive for my taste.

Wow, this program is great, too bad is way too expensive, especially because this is a work computer.

If doing it manually, the two folders mentioned above are exactly the ones I use it on Win10+open-shell, but I keep everything on "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs", when I install a program that create folders/shortcuts on the other, I simply move them to the "%AppData%..." folder. I've been doing this way for years without any problem, but just to be sure, for Win11 can I do the same?

YES. Start 11 uses those folders.