Lisi, I'm really sorry that trying the KickOff caused you trouble.
Maybe the search feature already available in the classic menu could be improved, if the KickOff is too problematic in newer TDE versions? Instead of graying out the programs in the classic menu, maybe it could be possible to make a menu appear with the search results? The search feature of the KickOff is probably the most important point of using it, and maybe the search feature of the classic menu could be improved to be as good as the one provided by the KickOff.
What do you think about it?
-Alexandre