Win11 Classic Start

[TomTheGeek]

With Windows 10 going end of life soon I have been forced to switch to Win11. The start menu in Win11 is horrible so I decided to write my own. This script will sit in the system tray and give you a clickable menu of all the shortcuts in the Start Menu folders. Just a simple menu with no advertisements shoved down your throat. Right now there are no icons for the menu items which I would like to fix but haven't figured out how.

Also because I'm constantly logging into new computers I also added a "UI Tweaks" functionality to configure Win11 options to my liking. Basically making it suck less. On first run the app will ask to apply these tweaks. It will only ask on first run but they can be applied later using the debug menu. The full list of tweaks is in the source code.

This is a work in progress but it's good enough for daily driving so I thought I should release it as-is. It certainly makes dealing with Win11 suck a lot less.

 

 

Win11_Classic_Start.zipFetching info...

Edited February 18 by TomTheGeek
Removed compiled script. Please don't post those as some great companies consider them a virus which results in the website to be flagged.

[argumentum]

  On 2/14/2025 at 5:31 PM, TomTheGeek said:

This is a work in progress but...

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..it's got missing includes

"D:\Users\Tester\Downloads\au3.212707-win11-classic-start\Win11_Classic_Start.au3"(15,10) : error: can't open include file <Restart.au3>.
#Include <Restart.au3>
~~~~~~~~~^
"D:\Users\Tester\Downloads\au3.212707-win11-classic-start\Win11_Classic_Start.au3"(16,10) : error: can't open include file <ArrayMutliColSort.au3>.
#Include <ArrayMutliColSort.au3>
~~~~~~~~~^
"D:\Users\Tester\Downloads\au3.212707-win11-classic-start\Win11_Classic_Start.au3"(59,43) : error: _ArrayMultiColSort(): undefined function.
_ArrayMultiColSort($MenuArray, $aSortData)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
"D:\Users\Tester\Downloads\au3.212707-win11-classic-start\Win11_Classic_Start.au3"(175,21) : error: _ScriptRestart(): undefined function.
    _ScriptRestart()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^
D:\Users\Tester\Downloads\au3.212707-win11-classic-start\Win11_Classic_Start.au3 - 4 error(s), 0 warning(s)
!>23:20:20 AU3Check ended. Press F4 to jump to next error. rc:2

so either add #Include <Restart.au3> ; http://get it from here link
Or, zip all the au3 files and icon ( that to me is a better idea ).

Thanks for sharing @TomTheGeek

[TomTheGeek]

> ....it's got missing includes

 

Whoops sorry about that, all files have been uploaded.

[Melba23]

TomTheGeek,

The compiled script in the OP has been removed again. Please do not put it back a third time.

M23

[UEZ]

Meanwhile also source codes will be classified as malware!

Microsoft Defender Antivirus has detected malware or other potentially unwanted software.
 For more information please see the following:
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=37020&name=Trojan:AutoIt/Prcablt.SD!MTB&threatid=2147740918&enterprise=1
    Name: Trojan:AutoIt/Prcablt.SD!MTB
    ID: 2147740918
    Severity: Severe
    Category: Trojan
    Path: containerfile:_C:\Coding\AU3\Internet\Mp3SearchEngine\Mp3SearchEngine v1.0.8.8.au3; containerfile:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\WallpaperBank\WallpaperBank v1.0.2.0.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Internet\Mp3SearchEngine2\Mp3SearchEngine_v2.0.1.1.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Internet\Mp3SearchEngine\Mp3SearchEngine v1.0.8.8.au3->(UTF-8); file:_C:\Coding\AU3\SystemInfo\CompStats\Computer Stats Utility 2.0.2.0.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\HTML Imager\HTML Imager v1.0.1.1.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\HTML Imager\HTML Imager v1.0.1.2.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\HTML Imager\HTML Imager v1.0.1.3.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\ImageSplitter\ImageSplitter v1.0.0.7.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\Mp3SearchEngine\Mp3SearchEngine v1.0.9.2.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\WallpaperBank\WallpaperBank v1.0.2.0.au3->(UTF-8);
    Detection Origin: Local machine
    Detection Type: Concrete
    Detection Source: System
    User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
    Process Name: C:\Programme\Editor\Notepad3\Notepad3.exe
    Security intelligence Version: AV: 1.421.1531.0, AS: 1.421.1531.0, NIS: 1.421.1531.0
    Engine Version: AM: 1.1.24090.11, NIS: 1.1.24090.11

[jchd]

@TomTheGeek

I only took a quick eye to your code. I  have 3 remarks:

1) prefer pass function names as such instead as string. E.g. TrayItemSetOnEvent($trayID_reload, ReloadMenu)
2) shouldn't text arguments to ShellExecuteEx use wchar instead of char? Else, if e.g. a path contains Unicode characters outside current codepage, expect failure.
3) Beware of changing global variables locally.
Func LaunchTask()
    Local $i = ...

Edited February 18 by jchd

[TomTheGeek]

  On 2/18/2025 at 9:30 AM, UEZ said:

Meanwhile also source codes will be classified as malware!

Microsoft Defender Antivirus has detected malware or other potentially unwanted software.
 For more information please see the following:
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=37020&name=Trojan:AutoIt/Prcablt.SD!MTB&threatid=2147740918&enterprise=1
    Name: Trojan:AutoIt/Prcablt.SD!MTB
    ID: 2147740918
    Severity: Severe
    Category: Trojan
    Path: containerfile:_C:\Coding\AU3\Internet\Mp3SearchEngine\Mp3SearchEngine v1.0.8.8.au3; containerfile:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\WallpaperBank\WallpaperBank v1.0.2.0.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Internet\Mp3SearchEngine2\Mp3SearchEngine_v2.0.1.1.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Internet\Mp3SearchEngine\Mp3SearchEngine v1.0.8.8.au3->(UTF-8); file:_C:\Coding\AU3\SystemInfo\CompStats\Computer Stats Utility 2.0.2.0.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\HTML Imager\HTML Imager v1.0.1.1.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\HTML Imager\HTML Imager v1.0.1.2.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\HTML Imager\HTML Imager v1.0.1.3.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\ImageSplitter\ImageSplitter v1.0.0.7.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\Mp3SearchEngine\Mp3SearchEngine v1.0.9.2.au3; file:_C:\Coding\AU3\Tools\WallpaperBank\WallpaperBank v1.0.2.0.au3->(UTF-8);
    Detection Origin: Local machine
    Detection Type: Concrete
    Detection Source: System
    User: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
    Process Name: C:\Programme\Editor\Notepad3\Notepad3.exe
    Security intelligence Version: AV: 1.421.1531.0, AS: 1.421.1531.0, NIS: 1.421.1531.0
    Engine Version: AM: 1.1.24090.11, NIS: 1.1.24090.11

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I don't see any of my source files in that report? None of the paths listed are my code.

[jchd]

Never care about Defender hallucinations.

[TomTheGeek]

  On 2/18/2025 at 10:06 AM, jchd said:

@TomTheGeek

I only took a quick eye to your code. I  have 3 remarks:

1) prefer pass function names as such instead as string. E.g. TrayItemSetOnEvent($trayID_reload, ReloadMenu)
2) shouldn't text arguments to ShellExecuteEx use wchar instead of char? Else, if e.g. a path contains Unicode characters outside current codepage, expect failure.
3) Beware of changing global variables locally.
Func LaunchTask()
    Local $i = ...

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1) Dunno, I just copied the style in the docs - https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/TrayItemSetOnEvent.htm
2) Maybe? Not sure how/where I would change that.
3) Fixed

[jchd]

AutoIt functions can be passed either as string:
TrayItemSetOnEvent($trayID_reload, "ReloadMenu")
or as function:
TrayItemSetOnEvent($trayID_reload, ReloadMenu)

The latter form allows AutoIt to detect errors at check/compile time, rather than runtime.

    Local $stINFO = DllStructCreate("long;long;long;ptr;ptr;ptr;ptr;long;long;long;ptr;long;long;long;long")
    Local $stVerb = DllStructCreate("wchar[15];wchar")
    Local $stPath = DllStructCreate("wchar[255];wchar")
    Local $stArgs = DllStructCreate("wchar[255];wchar")
    Local $stWDir = DllStructCreate("wchar[255];wchar")

 

[TomTheGeek]

Ok I've removed the quotes in TrayItemSetOnEvent.

Tried changing the chars to wchar but then the function stops working.

[jchd]

Didn't look further but the source of the include should show what the issue is

[UEZ]

  On 2/18/2025 at 4:44 PM, TomTheGeek said:

I don't see any of my source files in that report? None of the paths listed are my code.

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It was more an information to M23 because of the embedded executable... These files can be found somewhere in this forum.