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1. #WINDOWS GRID OF ICONS LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER FULL#
2. #WINDOWS GRID OF ICONS LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER WINDOWS 7#
3. #WINDOWS GRID OF ICONS LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER WINDOWS#

I could pin photo albums, OneNote Notebooks or pages, plane ticket PDFs, contact groups with their Facebook/Twitter/MSN latest posts, specific email folders, web pages, movies, music albums, playlists… it was far far more robust back then.

#WINDOWS GRID OF ICONS LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER WINDOWS#

Windows Phone 7’s live tiles were fantastically customizable and personal.

#WINDOWS GRID OF ICONS LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER FULL#

That being said, Windows 10 live tiles never met their full potential as they did on Windows Phone 7. I mean, the calendar widget doesn’t even work yet. The new Widgets window kind of does a lot of the same things that live tiles did, but it’s all in a completely different section from the start menu now and has a lot more irrelevant info and a lot less personal info. With one click I could see the time in a variety of time zones, the weather, my next appointment, upcoming tasks, flagged email lists, news, etc. Which function in the Windows 11 Start menu is the closest to the Start button for easiest access? My username? A button that I can use to sign out? Something I’ve never done? Does that really deserve the fastest access location? Nope! Live tiles are gone and the widget window isn’t as goodīesides being much easier to customize and arrange into an efficient layout, the Windows 10 start menu also had instant access at-a-glance live tiles that could make viewing information as simple as clicking the start menu button. That’s another “bad design” aspect of the new Start menu. Windows 11’s Start menu does the opposite AND doesn’t allow the user to customize it for better efficiency. That’s an efficiency boost and a time saver. On Windows 10, I can arrange my start menu’s application tiles to be very close to my mouse pointer so that I can access them with minimal mouse movement.

The “All Programs” button is about as far away from the mouse pointer’s initial location as it possibly can be, and even the listing of “pinned” applications is very far away. The layout of the new start menu has problems too. Application launching is much further away With Windows 11’s centered taskbar, you can no longer build motor memory for application locations since their locations are always displaced depending on how many other programs are running at the same time (unless you pin all of the programs that you’ll ever use.) In other words, Windows 11’s new taskbar design degrades the usefulness of pinning applications.

#WINDOWS GRID OF ICONS LOWER RIGHT HAND CORNER WINDOWS 7#

Windows 7 allowed users to pin programs to the taskbar in their desired position so that users could build motor memory for their most-used applications and quickly switch to them.

You may remember that with Windows 7, Microsoft’s research found that people would often launch programs in a specific sequence so that they would continuously be listed in the taskbar in a specific order. If that sounds like it’s going to require more cognitive energy and waste your time, you’re right. That means you can’t build motor memory for their locations and thus have to spend some brainpower to search for the proper icon using your eyes every time you need to use them. This will displace the start menu button, task switcher, widgets, and search buttons to the left. That’s right, it’s not consistently in the same location at the bottom of your screen! If I launch a bunch of programs, the app icons will fill up a larger width within the taskbar. Sometimes the Start menu Windows button is here, sometimes it’s over there. So efficient! Well, on Windows 11, not only do you have to be much more precise in trying to click the start menu button, but it also moves around sometimes. All you need to do is remember “flick to the lower-left corner, click”.

While the bottom-left corner was already super easy to access, you could also build motor memory for its location. But it gets worse… It’s not even always in the same new place To be sure, this is not one of the quickest and easiest locations for an interactive element. Windows 11 removes that extremely efficient and easy-to-use interaction method (by default) in favor of putting the Start menu button closer to the center of the bottom edge of your screen.