Textbased menu for windows

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Outliners.com Message ID: 4634

Posted by pma
2005-12-01 05:58:35

Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but anyhow, I think it is related to the structured way of thinking that we outline-freaks love. It’s also slightly nostalgic…

I found the kind of text-based menu programs that were prevalent during the golden DOS-times much more effective than the messy and indeed confusing way in which you launch applications from Windows (through the mess on the Windows desktop, throug the Start-menu trying to find your way through the mess of folders that the programs install, or through the not easily detectable icons in the QuickStart menu in the process-line.

If you had a menu-program in those old DOS-times, when you had started up your computer, you just had a menu showing the applications, it could be with numbers on it, and it could be hierarchical, so that you could have categories of applications. The choices were ordered neatly, and you could deliberately decide which applications you wanted in the startup menu.

Do anybody here know if some program exists that enable you to make a textbased menu (though it might show the Icons as well), from which you can launch your applications? Indeed, I would love replace my desktop with such a menu.

Peter.

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