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There was a small checkbox, a flag, saying "Use previous interface" somewhere;
and if checked, it showed a dropdown with a list of operating systems back to win2000.
I just chose XP and there it was. Simple, user friendly, almost fantastic.
Then I woke up... 
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Brilliant! You had me going there for a second. I also dislike the tiled start. I've finally gotten used to typing the name of the program I need and looking at the top...once or twice before I pin it. Also, pinning to the start menu doesn't seem to take place immediately??? I pin it, go look, and it's not there.  I have noticed that they appear on the next login. This also happens with newly installed programs. After I installed SQL 2014, it drove me crazy trying to find SSMS...it wasn't there??? do I need to re-install??? Restart...oh, there it is.  Chris M had mentioned a replacement start menu last week. When I have time I'll look for it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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At the moment I'm using classic shell on win7, so I have win2000 menu.
Ahh, the old good times...
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LMAO! 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Oops - this was supposed to be a reply to kmoores. If you read his comment, mine will suddenly make sense. lol
Yes! I have the same problem. I install Visual Studio 2015, and then started typing "visu..." in the Start Menu. I figured it was one of the few programs I have (the only program?) that starts with that sequence of letters, so "finding" it in the menu should be simple. Boy was I wrong. Instead, it gives me *web* results by default. When I click to instead go into "My Stuff", the first result is an app in the Windows App Store that I don't have installed; I think it's "Daylight HD Free".
I don't understand how searching a few dozen links and their associated text can possibly be so incredibly broken. It's really aggravating when I have to interact with it like this, so I've noticed that I am pinning everything to the taskbar and basically ignoring the start menu.
Oh, Microsoft. The more you change the more you stay the same.
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The more I read, the more I get happy that I chose to sit this one out and leave my systems alone. (Win7 and Win 8.1).
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I was hoping, but the more I read the more I cry a little inside. I'll still install it on something, but I don't know what yet.
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Thank you all for making me laugh till I cried!!
Having been yanked out of my well-known Windows world about 10 years ago when I became an embedded C developer and switching to Linux, then an iOS developer and switching to Mac, I'm so grateful not to have to deal with this!! To be sure, Mac has some pain points but nothing like this.
I forced my sister onto Linux (she borrows my laptop) and she still cries for Windows when she has to Google a broken package update, but I just tell her to suck it up, she doesn't know how lucky she has it.
I advised my mom to get a Windows phone because it was the best of a bunch of bad choices, but never again. That ever-swiping screen with just two choices - History and Contacts - finishes me, along with other incomprehensible choices (What?! Can't edit a Contact IN the Contact list?!!).
Anyway, thanks again, I'll be smiling all day now 
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As guessed by Colin Rae the answer was Cluster, but as he thinks he too late I will do Monday.
From General George Custer last stand at Little Bighorn against the Lakota and other tribes.
Custer + (L)akota = Cluster - a pack or group.
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Good morning!
I shall try to be quicker on Monday... 
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Hadrian's Wall[^]
Ignore the alarmist headline: that image reminds me of a map of England/Scotland and Hadrian's Wall. PyongYang is about where Glasgow is and Seoul about where Keswick is. I'd like to see little-man Kim attack Glasgow. He'd last 3 minutes.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I'd like to see little-man Kim attack Glasgow.
Wouldn't he actually be attacking Keswick in your analogy? 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Colin Mullikin wrote: Wouldn't he actually be attacking Keswick in your analogy?
I really wasn't being in any way serious!
I just meant that anyone that did attack Glasgow is elephanting stupid; the Scots are elephanting nuts! 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: the Scots are elephanting nuts!
Evidence[^] 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I'd like to see little-man Kim attack Glasgow. He'd last 3 minutes.
I know what you mean - I haven't been there in years, but even at the height of the Troubles, I felt safer in Belfast than Glasgow... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My dad told me that when he was young they had the razor gangs and the police only patrolled the Gorbels in 3s! (I don't know if any of that is really true!)
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I know it made me LOL when it was named "City of Culture" in 1990.
About the only culture it had was in a petri dish...
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OriginalGriff wrote: I know it made me LOL when it was named "City of Culture" in 1990.
I think that was a fantastical joke on all of us.
OriginalGriff wrote: About the only culture it had was in a petri dish deep fat fryer...
FTFY
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Did you fall off the chair when Scouseland won it?
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Actually, I take that back - it had a magnificent restaurant called "The Ubiquitous Chip".
You walked in, and it was like going outside - cobbled floor, plants, windows with curtains on the other side...
The menu was one side of A4, but the wine list...two volumes...we got rascally drunk in there several times. 
(And it's Still there![^] - if it's anything like it was, well worth a visit to the city on it's own)
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I have not set foot in Glasgow since the 20th Century! I was about 3, the last time I was there!
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I was old enough to enjoy good food and drink on expenses: and to work for a company that figured developers weren't supposed to travel on business, so every time you did you were doing them a favour - so they booked you into a nice hotel (4* or better) and encouraged you to enjoy yourself. +HIC+
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It's basically the same thing: a wall to keep the barbarians out.
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But, unfortunately, they overran Scotland anyway... the wall was not as effective as we'd like.
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