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FReeper techies,Windows 7 Start menu help!
1/15/2015

Posted on 01/15/2015 1:19:37 PM PST by mdittmar

FReeper techies question.

I got the Windows 7 start button moved to the right,any way to get the frickin menu to open on the right side without moving the taskbar to the right side?

see screenshots.

It's trivial,but it bugs me,and hey,I'm on vacation;)


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To: Carpe Cerevisi

My new laptop has Windows 8.1 I had to install a start button and classic desktop!


21 posted on 01/15/2015 1:51:03 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Prince of Space; sparklite2

Save the image to your hard drive that he posted, using a graphics program, convert it to the necessary extension for windows backgrounds, which is usually a “*.bmp” depending upon your version of windows.

Move it to the correct folder within windows and change the current desktop image/background to the new image.

Voila!


22 posted on 01/15/2015 1:51:55 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: kosciusko51

See post # 22.


23 posted on 01/15/2015 1:54:20 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I do?)
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To: Enlightened1

“Put the Windows 7 Start button where you want it”

If that were true, I could make Obama squeal like a pig...


24 posted on 01/15/2015 1:54:35 PM PST by moovova
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To: mdittmar

Install Classic Start Menu.

I’ve hated the Windows 7 menu. I got back the classic Windows 95/98/XP Start Menu by installing Classic Start Menu.

Its available on Sourceforge and its free.


25 posted on 01/15/2015 1:57:16 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: mdittmar
I just added a working clock.

That's a neat trick. How did you do that?

26 posted on 01/15/2015 1:58:29 PM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kosciusko51

lots of free software out there,just found one that kinda matched the library.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 2:04:15 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Ah, ok. The combination is quite nice.


28 posted on 01/15/2015 2:06:12 PM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

I know how to do that, thanks. But it would leave me with a clock that, to paraphrase the Mamas and Poppas, always says twelve-thirty.


29 posted on 01/15/2015 2:08:24 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: mdittmar

Just give up. Fugeddaboudit, when it comes to Windows 7. Worst fraud ever perpetrated against the computing public.


30 posted on 01/15/2015 2:11:29 PM PST by miserare ("Reverence for life--life of all kinds--is the first principle of civilization." ~~Schweitzer)
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To: mdittmar

Is that really your study/library? If so, I am impressed.

Are you someone from Downton Abbey?


31 posted on 01/15/2015 2:12:32 PM PST by miserare ("Reverence for life--life of all kinds--is the first principle of civilization." ~~Schweitzer)
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To: mdittmar

You are still posting. Did you fix it?


32 posted on 01/15/2015 2:14:11 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
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To: mdittmar

I don’t like this. This is a computer-help thread and you’re getting helpful, positive answers. Are you sure this is FR?


33 posted on 01/15/2015 2:16:05 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: US_MilitaryRules
No,guess there is no way.

Darn Microsoft:)

34 posted on 01/15/2015 2:18:43 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: Dr. Sivana

%%
Sharif don’t like it ...

(Lock the Taskbar! Lock the Taskbar!)


35 posted on 01/15/2015 2:20:45 PM PST by mikrofon (Serif, neither ;)
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To: mikrofon

rofl


36 posted on 01/15/2015 2:23:45 PM PST by GeronL
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To: mdittmar

37 posted on 01/15/2015 3:03:01 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: goldstategop; mdittmar
I’ve hated the Windows 7 menu.

Writing this from Windows 10, Windows Technical Preview, Evaluation Copy, Build 9879.

"Welcome, Client" page

I kind of like it. Real snappy on this old Dell Dimension 4700C slim desktop.

I think 8.1 can upgrade to this. XP needed a full install, but permits saving old files

38 posted on 01/15/2015 3:04:54 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: mdittmar

There’s always a way, but I’m guessing you’d have to go into the code to change the default location of the Start Menu. It doesn’t appear to be something a user can change.


39 posted on 01/15/2015 3:05:17 PM PST by HiJinx (I can see Mexico from my back porch...soon, so will you!)
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To: HiJinx

Well,I got the fricking Start Button moved to the right side of the taskbar,I don’t know code,but I’ll keep trying.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 3:16:02 PM PST by mdittmar
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