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“It’s one thing to screw up tens of millions of adults’ mental balance by destroying what was arguably the world’s most popular desktop UI for 15 years, replacing it with Fisher-Price blocks.”

Know what? Embrace the blocks. Sure, they look infantile, like the people they're aimed at.

That doesn't mean you can't configure them to your advantage. I deleted all the moronic "apps" and put shortcuts to my regular applications on the left side of the startscreen. Now it's easier when I want to switch applications in desktop to push the windows key and zap to the application from the startscreen.

Much faster than mousing around in the start menu.

[dayglored]

> Know what? Embrace the blocks. Sure, they look infantile, like the people they're aimed at. That doesn't mean you can't configure them to your advantage.

I took the Luddite approach. Once I got to the desktop, I defined a new Toolbar on the taskbar, which appears on the right end, next to the System Tray.

Filled it with shortcut icons for the programs I use most often.

It's the poor-man's Quick Launch Bar.

Not perfect, but I just cannot embrace the blocks. You can have all of my blocks, free. Please, take them... :-)

[Pelham]

“Much faster than mousing around in the start menu. “

I have plenty of shortcuts on my Windows 7 desktop and rarely need to resort to the Start button.

But I want the start button and not that Fisher Price block Metro interface. It’s one reason I don’t plan on upgrading to Windows 10.

[Secret Agent Man]

I got your number on my wall