Released on: 17, January 2006
, Author: OrdinarySoft
, Audience: Software related
The OrdinarySoft company has released a new free program namedVista Start Menu. It is intended to replace the standard Start menu. It is alreadythe company's second step in making work with the Start menu more comfortable: thecompany released the program Tidy Start Menu earlier. The new program completelyreplaces the Start menu with its new concept of interface implementation.
The Start menu appeared in Windows 95 for the first time. After that only cosmeticchanges were made in it and only in Windows XP there was a weak attempt to changesomething, but no changes were made concerning the most important purpose of theStart button - launching programs.
Do you need any changes in the Start menu? No, you don't if you have only a dozenprograms installed. If there are more programs, launching one program requires timedirectly proportional to the number of installed programs. The problem is partiallysolved by the Quick Launch Panel, but it also becomes useless when the number ofprograms increases.
Let us see why we spend so much time on starting programs. Look at programs in theStart menu, most of them differ only in their labels and, as a rule, you have toread all these labels to launch the program you need. In the worst case you have toread as many labels as there are program installed. It would be great if all theseprograms were presented not with text, but with their own icons. This method wouldemploy the natural ability of a human mind to recognize images and you would findthe program you need in no time.
That's what Vista Start Menu does! It presents programs installed in the system as atable of icons. To start an application, you just open the menu and click its icon.If you need files installed with the program, just move the mouse pointer to theicon and select the file you need from the popup menu.
What else is inconvenient in the standard menu from the point of view of humanperception? The standard menu is arranged in the form of a list and if we remove oradd programs, the position of other items also changes no matter whether we want itor not. Thus, the natural ability of a human mind to remember the position of itemsis not used. Vista Start Menu is devoid of this drawback: when you remove programs,icons do not change their position and the place of the removed program remainsempty. This position will be occupied by a new program later.
To sum it up, we can say that the interface of the new program is user-friendly.However, it may seem unusual to someone after a decade of using the inconvenientstandard interface.
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