No more classic Start Menu in Windows 7
Looks like Microsoft has retired Classic Start Menu option in Windows 7. I haven’t seen any official confirmation about it they confirmed in a indirect way.
While working on Windows 7 machine, I looked for a way to get Classic Menu. Though I coun’t find any setting, there was a GPO policy setting with name “Force Classic Start Menu”. I thought it will enable classic menu in some way but this GPO has a description saying, “Classic start menu is removed from windows 7″ and this GPO is applicable to OSes before to Win 7.
You can find similar information at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee617162(WS.10).aspx
However, you can get classic start menu view in windows 7 by installing a third party utility called “CSMenu“. Hope this helps.
Happy Learning..,
Sitaram Pamarthi
I’m pretty much impressed with the stability of Windows 7. It is better than windows Vista which hogs my memory and cpu.;**