Start8 for Win8 - Bring Back Windows 7 Start Menu - $3.99

Quote from myamex : To each his own, do whatever you like to your PC to suit your needs.

Thanks; now go tell this to your boss at Microsoft.

Quote from myamex : no, I don't miss the start menu. I have no idea why you need one. Learn how to use Win 8.

Got nothing better to do with my time than deal with the Windows8

Windows8 is a big fail in corporate environments and frankly is a sideline for home.

Personally I have a non-critical dual boot pc I have at home to play with.

NO WAY am I going to put this on *ANY* production machine, which includes the ones I use at home to get any *useful* work done YMMV.

I thought this thread was about a deal for people who want a start menu. Stop telling people what they do or don't need. Good lord.

God i hate Metro. This may be worth not having to reload Win7.

Star8 makes Windows 8 bearable. Been using it a long time, and hated it until I installed this. Its quite good. And yes, I tried all the free alternatives and they looked cheap. Start8 looks like it was made by Microsoft. Good or bad, it fits in.

I dont understand this windows 8 mess. Why are there 2 google chromes, 2 internet explorers? I start off in "metro chrome" then need to view a file on the desktop.... i need to open a new "regular chrome" to view them side by side. Whats going on here??

metro is not a full grown UI that can do everything . look at it more like an app friendly interface where you can get active updates and stuff, this is where you do your facebook/twitter/email and all the 21 century no real social life crap. on the other hand, productivity, you go back to go good'o desktop for windows application like office / adobe etc etc ....

by the way for that start menu button..
a simple registry hack would bring it back

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

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there are plenty of windows optimizing software supports that too... with 1 click

Edit: TBH, if you can't live without the start button, go back to windows 7. One good thing about windows 8 is it finally push you to start using that windows key that been sitting there doing nothing for almost 20 years, once you get used to it, you will never look back to click start click all program click this and click that :

this is stupid. people are making a big fuss over this shit.

I'd rather learn how to use the win8 start page than fiddle and try to get back the classic start menu.


I still use the classic quick launch in the taskbar in windows 7, and pin stuff to taskbar.
I have stuff pinned to start menu too, but in Win8, you can even pin all your most frequently used programs into the first cluster of tiles, so you never have to see other metro crap.

If you remove eye candy like animated windows min/maximizing, flipping to the start menu is instant.

Resistance is futile. Learn to use the win8 start page. It's easy.


my start menu, with crap cleaned up....

What the heck. Bought one. Thanks.

This is free Bringing Back the Windows® "Start" Menu

http://www.iobit.com/iobitstartmenu8.php

Quote from bug42 : So you have to pay to get back functionality. That sounds like a BIG step backwards.

Totally! Keep Windows 7 and have your start menu for FREE! How about that?

Quote from tg9413 : metro is not a full grown UI that can do everything . look at it more like an app friendly interface where you can get active updates and stuff, this is where you do your facebook/twitter/email and all the 21 century no real social life crap. on the other hand, productivity, you go back to go good'o desktop for windows application like office / adobe etc etc .... by the way for that start menu button.. a simple registry hack would bring it back HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer change RPEnabled from 1 to 0 there are plenty of windows optimizing software supports that too... with 1 click Edit: TBH, if you can't live without the start button, go back to windows 7. One good thing about windows 8 is it finally push you to start using that windows key that been sitting there doing nothing for almost 20 years, once you get used to it, you will never look back to click start click all program click this and click that :

I think you got it wrong. You could bring back start menu using registry, but only in Windows 8 preview version. In RTM, the start menu is completely removed.

I'm sorry but a 1-5% performance gain from Windows 7 to Windows 8 isn't enough to upgrade. Where as upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 there was a 35-40% performance boost.