Dot Matrix Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 I miss the Windows 8/8.1 Start "Tattoos". I'd really love to see them come back to Windows 10 Start... Feeback to upvote, if you agree: https://aka.ms/Cra0c5 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rippleman Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 2 minutes ago, Dot Matrix said: I miss the Windows 8/8.1 Start "Tattoos". I'd really love to see them come back to Windows 10 Start... for years you were saying the full screen start menu was superior and the way of the future. surprised you use the desktop. What made you change back? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597746104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 1 minute ago, Rippleman said: for years you were saying the full screen start menu was superior and the way of the future. surprised you use the desktop. What made you change back? I haven't. I still use the full screen Start on Windows 10. Just switched off briefly in order to create the mockup. DConnell and TPreston 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597746108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted January 16, 2017 MVC Share Posted January 16, 2017 and you say Glass looks out of place. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597746112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted January 16, 2017 Author Share Posted January 16, 2017 14 hours ago, warwagon said: and you say Glass looks out of place. The old Windows 7 look does, yes. This isn't glass. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597746748 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted July 19, 2017 Member Share Posted July 19, 2017 On 1/15/2017 at 8:08 PM, Dot Matrix said: I haven't. I still use the full screen Start on Windows 10. Just switched off briefly in order to create the mockup. Ditto. If I'm looking for a program, visible desktop is wasted space. I want all of my screen used for program presentation! TPreston and Dot Matrix 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597966810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 16 minutes ago, DConnell said: Ditto. If I'm looking for a program, visible desktop is wasted space. I want all of my screen used for program presentation! "Looking for"? Start -> Type a few letters? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597966832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted July 20, 2017 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2017 15 hours ago, Nefarious Trigger said: "Looking for"? Start -> Type a few letters? If DConnell is like me, I like to pin apps to the full-screen start screen so the more space I have available to pin things too the better. I do use the Looking for stuff a lot too though. DConnell and TPreston 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted July 20, 2017 Member Share Posted July 20, 2017 36 minutes ago, Skiver said: If DConnell is like me, I like to pin apps to the full-screen start screen so the more space I have available to pin things too the better. I do use the Looking for stuff a lot too though. Oh, I use Search a lot for launching stuff, too. Mostly for Settings. Never understood the idea that there should be "One Right Way" to do something. If I prefer to have a nice full-screen Start over the smaller one others prefer, why do some people have a problem? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buttus Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 50 minutes ago, Skiver said: If DConnell is like me, I like to pin apps to the full-screen start screen so the more space I have available to pin things too the better. I do use the Looking for stuff a lot too though. i'm not really clear on this, this just looks like grey square icons on a desktop screen. what's the difference? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967726 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted July 20, 2017 Veteran Share Posted July 20, 2017 1 minute ago, Buttus said: i'm not really clear on this, this just looks like grey square icons on a desktop screen. what's the difference? Well, this is how I display my start menu rather than the typical menu that only opens over a small portion. For me, this way of using the start menu works. Random Image from google... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 27 minutes ago, DConnell said: Oh, I use Search a lot for launching stuff, too. Mostly for Settings. Never understood the idea that there should be "One Right Way" to do something. If I prefer to have a nice full-screen Start over the smaller one others prefer, why do some people have a problem? I never once suggested that one way was the "right way" but seeing as you were "looking for" something, I suggested a way that you could find it. DConnell 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted July 20, 2017 Member Share Posted July 20, 2017 5 minutes ago, Nefarious Trigger said: I never once suggested that one way was the "right way" but seeing as you were "looking for" something, I suggested a way that you could find it. I just find if I'm doing a visual scan for a program, the full-screen presentation is more effective (for me) than the little box. Dick Montage 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 9 minutes ago, DConnell said: I just find if I'm doing a visual scan for a program, the full-screen presentation is more effective (for me) than the little box. Oh totally, the full screen layout if you use icons/squares/tiles/doo-dahs shows you more. But you also still use the typing method to help find alongside that Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuskd Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 The Windows 8 tattoos were more of a wallpaper for the Start screen than anything else. I never liked any of them. If users can set their own then I'm fine with it, but not a fixed set of options. OTOH, I would like more customization options for the Start Menu/Screen. I don't use the Start screen (Loved the 8.1 one) now because of too much wasted space. On 8.1, I set up a densely packed horizontal scrolling stream of tiles with wasted space only on the top and bottom and loved it. If I can recreate that on Windows 10 (I am ok with scrolling vertically), it would be great. DConnell 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 i'm with the crowd that didn't want the start button, can't even remember when I last clicked the start button, everything I have is on shortcuts in the desktop, navbar. As such, don't miss tattoos and think they saturate the view, but then again, im a mnmlst Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967804 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted July 20, 2017 Member Share Posted July 20, 2017 10 minutes ago, Draconian Guppy said: i'm with the crowd that didn't want the start button, can't even remember when I last clicked the start button, everything I have is on shortcuts in the desktop, navbar. As such, don't miss tattoos and think they saturate the view, but then again, im a mnmlst IMO the Start Button is superfluous - 90% of the time my left hand is by the winkey, so it's second nature to trigger Start that way, and then use keyboard/mouse for whatever else I need. Draconian Guppy 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 1 hour ago, Skiver said: If DConnell is like me, I like to pin apps to the full-screen start screen so the more space I have available to pin things too the better. I do use the Looking for stuff a lot too though. so much wasted space to display tiny desktop icons Draconian Guppy 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dot Matrix Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 17 hours ago, DConnell said: Ditto. If I'm looking for a program, visible desktop is wasted space. I want all of my screen used for program presentation! Yeah. I haven't used desktop shortcuts in ages. By default anymore, I switch desktop shortcuts off, everything is on my taskbar, or located on my Start Screen. DConnell 1 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPreston Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 27 minutes ago, nekrosoft13 said: so much wasted space to display tiny desktop icons If you want to see wasted space checkout the default windows 10 start screen on 3440x1440 Draconian Guppy and Tuskd 2 Share Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted July 20, 2017 MVC Share Posted July 20, 2017 Now they just need to allow the pinning of file shortcuts on the start menu, without a reg hack. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597967880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragontology Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 (edited) Tattoos? Well, for what it's worth, Office 365 has this feature, but I don't think it's called that. I didn't know what it was, and it took me a minute to notice what was happening. It adds a visual flair to the upper right corner by the min/max/close buttons. I have the Calligraphy one on. This is just Outlook though. I haven't actually opened Word or Excel since I added it, I don't think... I should check them out. Surprised Windows 8 had this feature, and Office 365 has it now, and Windows 10 does not. I mean, I'm quite certain Windows 10 does not have this feature... and now I want it. I hated Windows 8's start screen. I hated Windows 10's start menu for the longest time, but now I've tamed it and made it good. Live tiles are crap, they've never been good for me. Either they don't work or they don't update, and I don't spend enough time on the start menu for them to be useful to me. Microsoft needs to get them out onto the desktop like the widgets Windows XP/Vista had. Only those were a buggy mess. And then there's Rainmeter; why Microsoft can't pull off something that elegant is beyond me. Maybe one day... So here's my Start menu [Imgur link]...what I've gone and done here is, I've gone down the list of programs, accessories, and other things that are programs but we call them other things because reasons unknown, and I've pinned them to the start menu. Then I made them all small and categorised them. Pretty straightforward, but it's very effective. I've tried to put the Photos live tile in the lower right, kind of on its own, but it won't go live, it just sits there with the icon. Wouldn't mind having a pattern over there. It's fine how it is, but I'll go and vote on the thing, because that would be a great feature to have. (Or maybe I won't because you have to be on Windows 10. Fine, Microsoft, I'll save the link to Google Keep and try to remember to open it on Windows 10. Which is to say I will remember to open it on Windows 10, since you've made me take additional steps.) Did this on my laptop too, though I don't have as many programs. And whenever they get Windows 10 at work, I'll do it there, too. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1319396-i-miss-windows-881-start-tattoos/#findComment-597968866 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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