Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements (betanews.com)

DarkRookie2 shares a report a report about Windows 10 Build 18290 for Insiders, which comes with a number of improvements and additions. BetaNews reports: The most noticeable change is to the Start menu which gets a touch of Fluent design, making it look more attractive. Icons have also been added to the power and user menus. The Search and Cortana areas have been given a bit of a cleanup as well. Also new in this build is an option in the Date & Time Settings that will let you manually synchronize your clock with the time server. If you suspect your PC clock might be showing the wrong time, this will let you check and correct the problem if you're right. You can now also check to see which app is using your microphone (just hover over the microphone icon to see), and when your PC has an update that requires a reboot, you'll now be informed via an orange Windows Update indicator in the system tray.

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Call me when they roll it back

[Shaitan]

The start menu has gotten worse and worse with each release and peaked somewhere around XP pro. 7 was the last functional one.

Re:Call me when they roll it back

[reboot246]

Yes, "improving" the Start menu on Windows 10 really is putting lipstick on a pig.

Re:Call me when they roll it back

[Anonymous Coward]

The start menu has gotten worse and worse with each release and peaked somewhere around XP pro. 7 was the last functional one.

IMNSHO, the Start menu peaked at Windows 2000. It was basic, utilitarian, and functional. RIP WIN2K.

Re:Call me when they roll it back

[hudsucker]

For one thing, the Windows 10 Start Menu doesn't allow for program subfolders.

For example, if you had something like a "Microsoft Office" group, containing the key applications at the top level, but the lesser used utilities in a subfolder "Microsoft Office Tools", all of that nice structure is gone. It just throws all of the program icons into the single folder allowed per application.

Microsoft's answer is, apparently, to redesign the application so it doesn't use the Start Menu for program links. But what happens when you have an application that was designed for Windows 7, which has a perfectly functional Start menu, that supports subfolders? It is just a horrid mess.

And what possible reason is there for this limitation? Oh yeah: it is because Windows 8 was designed for tablets, not computers, hence the whole "metro" interface. For some reason Microsoft didn't bother to fix the Metro-emphasis in Windows 10, so we're stuck with limitations that make no sense.

Re:Call me when they roll it back

[AbRASiON]

Yes it's quite broken.

I love how I install a new App, let's call it Chromulus I dunno
I click start, type Chro - up comes Chrome browser and then Chromulus is underneath, I open it.
5 minutes later, I hit start, type "Chro" only Chrome comes up, wtf?

A day later, I try again, it's there.
A day later, it isn't

This is literally an installed Application in the start menu with a traditional .LNK file which should be indexed and god damn prioritised first in search results.

NO, I do NOT want to search the web for Chro.

This has occurred enough time over enough apps on enough installs of Windows 10, that I'm with you 10,000% - that search menu is terrible and worse of all, is sloppy inconsistent code
Broken is ok - I'm ok with broken. Inconsistent is the true sign of poor work to me.

That start menu is truly a mess.

So, let me get this straight...

[IWantMoreSpamPlease]

The latest patch fucks up your data, messes with dark theme, wipes out god only knows what else....and their solution is to make some icons shiny?

Do I have that right?