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One great program that I recommend for Windows users looking for a plain vanilla set up is Open-Shell-Menu. https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/

It replaces the always animating Windows 10 start menu with something more simple.

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I love how an application which modifies the UI of windows does not have a single screenshot showing the application on their website. What is going on with this trend?

are you aware that software installations and customizations take you further away from "vanilla", rather than closer to it?

Have you tried the classic shell? It is a first for me with any new windows install.

the windows 10 shell is fine.

press and release windows key, type the name of the application you want, press enter.

same as windows 7.

why would I need a different shell? last time I tried one, almost 20 years ago, it crashed continually and was therefore completely useless. same with all of the stardock software I bought. garbage, all of it.

Except that if it doesn’t find thr application it will search Bing if you aren’t using Windows 10 Enterprise. This can’t be turned off unless you edit the registry. I was furious when I figured this out.

Years ago I found a great Chrome/FF extension called "Bing2Google" where any search from the start menu that gets sent to either browser is automatically re-directed to Google instead. I was more furious when they changed that to always open Edge instead of your preferred browser.

Open-Shell-Menu is a fork of Classic shell which is no longer updated since December 2017.

Sometimes, more is less.

sometimes more is less, and sometimes less is more, and neither more nor less are vanilla. this is about "vanilla".

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