OT: XP's ugly Start button

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Terry Pinnell

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After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
 
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Right click on START. Choose OPTIONS, Then pick CLASSIC interface.
Click to expand...

Tam
 
"Tam/WB2TT" <t-tammaru@c0mca$t.net> wrote:

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:0s0701lh06717nuisb0o9a8b0b7vellfnb@4ax.com...
After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Right click on START. Choose OPTIONS, Then pick CLASSIC interface.

Tam
Click to expand...
"....I'm trying the XP style."

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK
 
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:24:17 +0000, in sci.electronics.design Terry
Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

"Tam/WB2TT" <t-tammaru@c0mca$t.net> wrote:


"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:0s0701lh06717nuisb0o9a8b0b7vellfnb@4ax.com...
After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Right click on START. Choose OPTIONS, Then pick CLASSIC interface.

Tam


"....I'm trying the XP style."
Click to expand...
OK, you've tried it, now go back to Classic!
Honestly, I gave up on XP, the icons are too big, I need a bigger
monitor


martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
 
"martin griffith" <martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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"....I'm trying the XP style."

OK, you've tried it, now go back to Classic!
Honestly, I gave up on XP, the icons are too big, I need a bigger
monitor
Click to expand...
Seems OK in 1600*1200@20" imho.... But since you can set their size on pixel
basis (at least it seems so on Display Properties\Appearance\Advanced\Item
dropdown=Icon) the icon size shouldn't be the reason for disliking XP ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
/Anders


martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Click to expand...
 
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:24:17 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

"Tam/WB2TT" <t-tammaru@c0mca$t.net> wrote:


"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:0s0701lh06717nuisb0o9a8b0b7vellfnb@4ax.com...
After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK

Right click on START. Choose OPTIONS, Then pick CLASSIC interface.

Tam


"....I'm trying the XP style."
Click to expand...
I've been through the settings before and I think you're stuck. If
you can divert your attention from the start button, you'll see the
XP style is gay and switch back.

You could do a registry search on "start" and F3 your way through it
in your spare time.
--
Best Regards,
Mike
 
Check the www.pcmag.com web site.
I think there is a way to fill your own bmp's in the start menu.

Cheers

"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message news:0s0701lh06717nuisb0o9a8b0b7vellfnb@4ax.com...
After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
Click to expand...
 
"Anders F" <af-spam@hi5.dk> wrote:

"martin griffith" <martingriffith@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:sfg701t7kbb1ut99i3dkl9fijc1mgfj4br@4ax.com...
"....I'm trying the XP style."

OK, you've tried it, now go back to Classic!
Honestly, I gave up on XP, the icons are too big, I need a bigger
monitor

Seems OK in 1600*1200@20" imho.... But since you can set their size on pixel
basis (at least it seems so on Display Properties\Appearance\Advanced\Item
dropdown=Icon) the icon size shouldn't be the reason for disliking XP ;-)

Have a nice weekend!
/Anders
Click to expand...
1600*1200?! You must be at least a couple of decades younger than me -
I'm using 1024 x 768!

Here's what Start looks like back in Classic.
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XPStartClassic.gif

As you saw from my earlier screen shot,
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif
the XP version is not only garishly coloured but also has a *relative*
size grossly disproportionate to other icons.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK
 
....is just one more reason to switch to Linux.

Here is a much better reason to switch to Linux:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gates+focus+interview
 
classd101 wrote:
Guy Macon <_see.web.page_@_www.guymacon.com_> wrote...
...is just one more reason to switch to Linux.

Here is a much better reason to switch to Linux:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gates+focus+interview

An even better reason is because updates will only be available for
those with legal versions :) I'm sure there'll be a work around
though.. ahem.
Click to expand...
I wouldn't know. Every byte on my computer is 100% legal.

I am, however, concerned about Microsoft's announcements that
pirates will no longer be able to get updates. Buggy Microsoft
products don't just affect the end-user; the compromized computer
often becomes a spam-spewing zombie that affects us all.
 
Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote:

After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?
Click to expand...
Sorted! From Fred in the Customising newsgroups:
"If you want to change the start button, then a program that changes
the start button would seem reasonable. Such a program is "mySB".
Info at http://www.sayesoft.com.au/mySB/info.htm
You can edit/create the graphics to make the start button's appearance
be exactly as you want it. End of problem."

Installed that, and now have Start button a fraction of the size of
the standard version, and it's not a garish green! For time being I'll
settle for the one reasonable free option, 'small computer', but I
might even fork out USD9.95 sometime and make my own!

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
 
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:52:24 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

...is just one more reason to switch to Linux.

Here is a much better reason to switch to Linux:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gates+focus+interview
Click to expand...
Did you read their "Favorite Clueless Response?"
http://www.cantrip.org/clueless.html

And I wonder, why _isn't_ an article like that "front page news?"

Thanks,
Rich
 
Rich Grise wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 23:52:24 +0000, Guy Macon wrote:

...is just one more reason to switch to Linux.

Here is a much better reason to switch to Linux:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gates+focus+interview

Did you read their "Favorite Clueless Response?"
http://www.cantrip.org/clueless.html

And I wonder, why _isn't_ an article like that "front page news?"
Click to expand...
Why indeed?

It now takes over EIGHT HOURS on a 56K modem to install
the 39 critical updates patches needed after a fresh install
of Windows 2000 - and Windows 2000 is really Windows NT 6.0,
and had five years of prerelease development plus five years
postrelease bugfixing by the time 2000 came out.

The problem with that 8 hours of downloading is that your new
Windows 2000 installation becomes infected with a virus within
the first ten minutes, infected with multiple viruses and trojans
within the first hour, and often has a virus load that stops the
computer dead before the 8 hours of downloading are done.
 
"Terry Pinnell" <terrypinDELETE@THESEdial.pipex.com> wrote in message
news:0s0701lh06717nuisb0o9a8b0b7vellfnb@4ax.com...
After years on good 'ol Windows Classic, I'm trying the XP style. I
could conceivably grow to love rounded corners and graded colour
fills. But that enormous green START button is too much!
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XP-Start.gif

I've posted to an XP NG, but anyone here know if there's a tweak or
hack to shrink it and change its colour please?

--
Terry, West Sussex, UK
Click to expand...
You might try:

http://sarahlane.typepad.com/sarahword/2004/06/hack_xps_start_.html

Robert
 
"Robert" <Robert@yahoo.com> wrote:

You might try:

http://sarahlane.typepad.com/sarahword/2004/06/hack_xps_start_.html
Click to expand...
Thanks, I may take a look at that 20-step procedure at some stage.
But, as per my post yesterday
news:n45a01hk1d62p8l049lq6165l52mbapsbg@4ax.com
now sorted with a much simpler approach.

--
Terry Pinnell
Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK
 
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