Well, yes, in some cases, but the start menu is something you interact with very often. The average user (and I mean office worker in their 40s)doesn’t even pin items to the taskbar. As such, the main way to open apps is through the start menu. Think about this way. In this situation on a laptop, you either save ram or battery. Constant cpu spikes aren’t good for energy efficiency. This also means hogging your ssd, which might be an issue in specific situations. On the other side, keeping the start menu fully in ram could be perceived as a waste, it really depends on how often you use the start menu and how much you value energy efficiency.
Power button is a perfectly valid way to turn off a modern PC. They don’t kill power the way they used to, they send a signal to the PC to shut itself down. Exactly the same as using the start menu.
Looks like my understanding is valid - it is situational.
With a pointing to, I’ve noted most office workers do have apps pinned, by themselves or IT guy. Often even too many, like 3-4 web browsers lol. Also they rarely work on laptops, but office PCs. At least my country (Europe).
Also, could guess MS or most big tech companies may want users to make common parts used faster, to make them buy new faster :giggle:.
It’s also pretty common to type Win + NameOfProgram + Enter, which necessarily opens the start menu and spikes the darn CPU. This has been a very common way to interact with the OS since Vista, and, as with so many other things in Microsoft land, has gotten worse.
WindowsKey -> “fire” -> Enter ==> Firefox is now open!
The crux of the problem is that clicking Start should display a low-resolution background image and 29 low-resolution icons, with some text and links. Bringing it to life should load a couple hundred k of disk into RAM and be imperceptible to the naked eye on the task manager.
My 12th-gen, 14-core processor that boosts to 3.5GHz should be able to do all that many hundreds of times a second without any serious stress.
Yet, I can click the start icon repeatedly by hand and hold my computer in excess of 40%
It’s not a direct issue, and any modern computer will have no problem handling the load, but it calls out Win11 for attention to detail problems.
Well, yes, in some cases, but the start menu is something you interact with very often. The average user (and I mean office worker in their 40s)doesn’t even pin items to the taskbar. As such, the main way to open apps is through the start menu. Think about this way. In this situation on a laptop, you either save ram or battery. Constant cpu spikes aren’t good for energy efficiency. This also means hogging your ssd, which might be an issue in specific situations. On the other side, keeping the start menu fully in ram could be perceived as a waste, it really depends on how often you use the start menu and how much you value energy efficiency.
I’ve been trying to help my parents use Windows since the '90s. They still to this day have no idea what the Start menu is.
Quality teacher!
but, how do they turn PCs off? win-d alt-f4? think win-d was not a thing in early windows… please don’t say by power button.
They never turn them off.
Power button is a perfectly valid way to turn off a modern PC. They don’t kill power the way they used to, they send a signal to the PC to shut itself down. Exactly the same as using the start menu.
Sure, the keyword is “modern” though we used to talk of 90s’.
Much thx for explanation,
Looks like my understanding is valid - it is situational.
With a pointing to, I’ve noted most office workers do have apps pinned, by themselves or IT guy. Often even too many, like 3-4 web browsers lol. Also they rarely work on laptops, but office PCs. At least my country (Europe).
Also, could guess MS or most big tech companies may want users to make common parts used faster, to make them buy new faster :giggle:.
In case of the start menu, the sensible thing would be to optimize it sufficiently so that it doesn’t hurt being kept ready constantly.
It’s also pretty common to type Win + NameOfProgram + Enter, which necessarily opens the start menu and spikes the darn CPU. This has been a very common way to interact with the OS since Vista, and, as with so many other things in Microsoft land, has gotten worse.
WindowsKey -> “fire” -> Enter ==> Firefox is now open!
The crux of the problem is that clicking Start should display a low-resolution background image and 29 low-resolution icons, with some text and links. Bringing it to life should load a couple hundred k of disk into RAM and be imperceptible to the naked eye on the task manager.
My 12th-gen, 14-core processor that boosts to 3.5GHz should be able to do all that many hundreds of times a second without any serious stress.
Yet, I can click the start icon repeatedly by hand and hold my computer in excess of 40%
It’s not a direct issue, and any modern computer will have no problem handling the load, but it calls out Win11 for attention to detail problems.
Reasonably advanced user in my 30s, I interact with it vs pinned icons because I don’t like taking my fingers off the keyboard.