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Start Menu 8 2.4.0.2

Date: 12/03/2015 09:04 AM

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StartMenu8 offers a solution for users who work with the Windows Start Menu and are not accustomed to the Metro start screen in Windows 8.

StartMenu8 Features:

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Start Menu 8 is specially designed for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 to bring back both the Windows 8 start button and Windows 8 Start Menu. It offers the option to skip Modern UI, allowing users who only work on desktop to boot to Windows 8 desktop directly. It's the best Windows 8 start menu replacement. Start Menu 8 can also run smoothly on Windows 7/Vista/XP to replace the built-in start menu.

Start Menu 8 Features:

Bring Back the Classic Start Menu

Start Menu 8, specially designed for Windows 8, offers a free but perfect solution for users who are not accustomed to the new Modern start screen in Windows 8, to bring back both start button and Start Menu to Windows 8.

One-click to Access Hidden System Features

As users who are not computer gurus may take a long time to access some of the most important system hidden features, Start Menu 8 is designed to help you accessing to the Safe Mode and power options, as well as skipping Modern UI in a fast and easy way.

Easier & Faster Search

You can pin and organize your favorite apps and websites with Start Menu 8. This lets you quickly access your apps, files, as well as the web, by a simple search in the start menu.

Customized Start Button & Menu

Start Menu 8 lets you completely customize your new Start button. For example, you can select a button that looks like the classic Windows 7 button, or set your favorite picture as the start button in a Windows 8 style.

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6 Start Menu Replacements for Windows 8

Want a Start menu on your Windows 8 desktop? While Microsoft no longer includes the Start button, opting instead for a click in a hidden corner and a new Start screen, there are quite a few Start menu replacements you can choose from.

You can try living without the Start button and customizing your Start screen – it’s very possible to get by without the Start button and some people seem to prefer the new interface – but you have a choice.

Many of these tools also allow you to boot directly to the desktop and hide the charms and app switcher that appear when you move your cursor to the corners of the screen, giving you a more traditional desktop experience.

Classic Shell is a free, open-source Start menu replacement. It includes skins that can mimic the Windows 7/Vista, Windows XP, or Windows 2000/98 start menus and is extremely configurable. If you’re using Ninite to set up your new computer with the software you like, you’ll find that Ninite can now install Classic Start.

Stardock’s Start8 offers a Windows 8-style Start menu in addition to a Windows 7-style Start menu. Unlike Classic Shell, Start8 isn’t free – while there’s a 30-day free trial, you’ll have to pay $5 if you want to use Start8 long-term.

Start8’s Windows 7-style Start menu is a more accurate reproduction of Windows 7’s Start menu than Classic Shell’s.

Start8’s Windows 8-style Start menu isn’t too shabby, either – it feels similar to the new Start screen, but you can use it without going full-screen.

Try IObit StartMenu8 if you’re disappointed by Classic Shell and don’t want to shell out $5 for Start8. IObit StartMenu8 is completely free and works more similarly to the Windows 7 Start menu than Classic Shell does.

Note:  some readers have written in complaining about ads included in IOBit products, so we have removed the link.

Right-click the StartMenu8 icon and you’ll find many of the more useful options for using your computer as a traditional desktop, including the ability to skip the Start screen at login, hide the charms sidebar, and disable the other hot corners.

Using the Windows taskbar’s support for “toolbars” that can display the contents of a folder, you can create your own Start menu replacement without installing any third-party software.

Pokki is primarily an “app store” for Windows, but it also offers a Start menu for Windows 8. Unlike the other Start menus here, Pokki doesn’t try to copy Microsoft’s Start menus exactly. It has a different design, which you may or may not prefer. There are separate categories for your applications and settings and you can also pin your most-used programs to the Favorites section.

There’s also ViStart, which was one of the most talked-about Start menus when the first preview releases of Windows 8 were released with no traditional Start menu. Unfortunately, ViStart’s installer is now full of useless toolbars and other junkware – we can’t recommend ViStart when the other Start menus here work so well.

The third-party Start menu ecosystem is flourishing. Samsung and Toshiba are even writing their own Start menus – Samsung Quick Starter and Toshiba Desktop Assist – and including them with their Windows 8 computers. It’s very possible other PC manufacturers will follow.

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Beyond all of the colorful tiles; the bolted-on Modern user interface; the giant, full-screen apps and panels; and the inability to boot to the desktop—to name just a few of our gripes—there’s one issue above all others that’s guaranteed to universally frustrate Windows 8 desktop users: the Start Menu.

Specifically, Microsoft’s decision to remove the Start Menu entirely from Windows 8, giving users no recourse for adding it back as an optional alternative or supplement to the Modern UI’s tiled application shortcuts and search tool, which are Windows 8’s means of navigation.

We can fix that.

Perform a simple search for “Windows 8 Start Menu” and you’ll find a smorgasbord of apps with one purpose in mind: bringing back the button at any cost. The last thing you want to do is muck up your Windows 8 installation with a junky program, however—worse, to have wasted your time installing numerous Start Menu apps in an effort to find out which one is best (or prettiest).

Worry not. Your Start Menu is coming back. And with 11 different apps in our Start Menu roundup, we’re going to show you the best free and paid-for ways to get it.

It’s a Start Buffet, not a Start Menu

We appreciate what ReviverSoft is trying to do with its free Start Menu Reviver app. In many ways, the Start Menu that the app creates is like a miniature hybrid of Windows Modern and a conventional Start Menu. Big, bulky boxes give you access to your computer’s contents, your Internet browser of choice, the Modern dashboard, and what can only be described as a semi-shrunken version of Modern itself for quick app access.

• Packed to the gills with links and shortcuts.
• Not a ton of configuration options on this one.
• Start Menu folder structure could be presented much better.

With some tweaking of Start Menu Reviver’s limited configuration options you can create a vague resemblance to the conventional Start Menu. But even then, the app feels like it wastes space—we’d rather see more of our folders and shortcuts at once.

To balance out that annoyance, however, the app features a ton of links to various parts of the OS—and the ability to bypass Modern completely when Windows 8 boots.

We give it a Power 1

Sorry, Power 8 just doesn’t do it for us. First, we hate that there’s no way to assign your keyboard’s Windows Key to pull up this app’s Start Menu instead of Modern. The app is also a bit too thorough when it comes to disabling Modern’s Hot Corners—useful if you want to try and click its tiny Start button without accidentally activating a Windows 8 hot corner, but poor if you want to access any of the hot-corner options.

• Big on pinning, if there’s a small list of apps that you only really ever use.
• Doesn’t work with your Windows Key; disables too much of Modern with no customizability.

About that Start button—we wish that Power 8 came preconfigured with a larger button than the wee sliver the app stashes on the lower-left corner of your screen. The app’s glowing shortcut text is a bit tough on the eyes, and you’re forced to click a giant “Start Menu” button within the, er, Start Menu, just to access your standard Programs folder. No, thanks.

A Swiss Army knife of Start Menu approaches

The freeware app Classic Shell is a bit like using a bazooka to kill a fly. In this case, we commend the carnage. Once installed, the app allows you to slap a Start Menu button directly within Windows 8’s Desktop Mode that can be configured to operate in one of three ways: Windows Classic, Windows XP, or Windows 7.

And, yes, Classic Shell comes with illustrated examples for those who don’t quite remember the differences between the three Start Menu setups.

• A great app for ignoring Modern completely.
• Highly customizable, with more options than Windows would give you natively.
• Bonus tweaks to File Explorer, which you can enable and disable at your leisure.

Other fun tweaks the app enables are the much-longed-for ability to bypass Windows 8’s Modern UI entirely in favor of a direct boot to Desktop Mode, a sea of configuration options that you can use to tweak your Start Menu to your liking, and Classic Explorer, which adds some creative visual tweaks to File Explorer itself!

Not too shabby, minus its weird name

It might feel a bit jarring at first when ViStart asks you to create a new Toolbar that it’ll use as your Start button, but don’t be scared off by the app’s treatment. You can still tap your Windows Key to launch the new menu—or at least, we could until the Windows Key started loading Modern again (a quick reset fixed that).

• Simple look and feel with a variety of switchable skins and decent display configuration.
• Scrolling programs menu should be replaced with one that shows all of your programs and folders at once.

ViStart’s scrolling programs menu mimics the conventional Windows 7 Start Menu, and its left-most shortcuts are convenient and customizable—you can even add brand-new ones if you’re down for a little bit of text-file editing. The app lets you bypass Modern upon booting and lets you customize which of Windows 8’s hot corners you’d like to flip on and off—a lovely touch. The app’s search leaves a little to be desired, as you can’t Ctrl-A all of your text and delete it en masse when you want to search for new things.

Simple, easy, could be a bit more customizable

The no-frills freeware app StartW8 throws up a fairly simplified iteration of Windows 7’s Start Menu within your Windows 8 installation, up to and including the familiar scrollable list of folders and shortcuts buried within its “All Programs” link.

• A few-frills Start Menu app that gives you a classic, compact look.
• You can’t really manipulate your typical Start Menu shortcuts (our kingdom for a “pinning” option!).

It’s a bit of a bummer that StartW8 doesn’t come with a way to pin most-used shortcuts to the Start Menu itself, or even change the order in which your shortcuts appear on StartW8’s “recent” section.

Nestled within Start8’s settings menu is a useful option that lets Windows 8 skip away from Modern and pull up your Windows Desktop when the OS loads. You’re also allowed to disable Modern’s hot corners in various configurations—we appreciate that Start8 resists an “all or nothing” approach. StartW8 lets you edit the menu items that the app tosses on the rightmost part of the Start Menu, but you can’t customize your own shortcuts.

A lovely looking Start Menu… if it installs

Pokki isn’t so much a Start Menu replacement as it is a kitchen sink of utilities for the social enthusiast. In theory, the app gives you a brand-new Start Menu in Windows 8 that’s packed full of far more than you probably need on your Start Menu, including hooks to an app store that you can use to supplement your Pokki Start Menu with social networking tie-ins, games, and other web-themed fare.

• Start Menu certainly looks pretty, but we’re wary of additional tie-ins.
• Frustrating installation setup, in that it didn’t work out for us at all.
• Perhaps Windows 8 (x64) users need not apply?

The problem? It doesn’t work. We had a great deal of trouble getting Pokki installed on our 64-bit system; either the app would install “correctly” and just not do anything (or even give the appearance that it was installed on our system), or the installation program would just hang, and hang, and hang. Trying to uninstall Pokki after an unsuccessful installation informed us that we didn’t have sufficient rights to do so. Argh.

Click the next page to read about Start Menu 7 and more.

Display all the apps

Boom! That’s the sound Start Menu 7 should make the first time you click its four-color icon and get all of your programs blasted across your screen on one of the largest Start Menus we’ve ever encountered—thankfully, you can adjust the menu’s height and width as if it were a standard Windows… window.

• All of your apps in one giant start menu!
• Virtual folders can help get your shortcuts a bit more organized.
• Creating a “Favorites list” of shortcuts is a little annoying.

You can configure Start Menu 7 to load itself, or Modern’s Start screen, via your keyboard’s Windows Key (or Shift + Windows Key combination). Flipping Windows 8’s hot corners on and off is as easy as clicking the available graphic and, yes, Start Menu 7 can bypass Modern when your system boots.

The app comes with five different skins for its Start Menu. More importantly, you can use the app to create “virtual groups” of folders and shortcuts for extra organization. The app’s “pinning” process for sticking shortcuts to the Start Menu could be a bit more streamlined, however.

A Windows 7 Start Menu with little to no fuss

As an Irish lad, this reviewer does appreciate that StartIsBack uses a shamrock embedded in an orb as the default icon for the Start Menu it jury-rigs into your operating system. Even better, the Start Menu itself looks and operates swimmingly—as if you ripped it straight out of Windows 7 and dumped it into Windows 8. In fact, we’d assume you were just natively running Microsoft’s older OS if you sat us down at Windows 8’s Desktop Mode with StartIsback running. It’s that slick.

• Slick, smooth, and problem-free re-creation of the Windows 7 Start Menu.
• Tons of configuration options.
• You’ll have to download a new Start Menu orb if you’re not a big Ireland fan.

StartIsBack comes with a number of configuration options for tweaking the look and feel of your Start Menu. The app also lets you bypass Modern entirely when booting, though it also gives you a host of options for configuring the nuances of Modern’s hot corners.

Our favorite trick? The option that lets you sticky a taskbar within Modern itself. Take that, Windows 8 UI design.

We like the look of RetroUI Pro, but some of its raw functionality—and default configurations—leave a little to be desired.

For starters, we hate this Start Menu’s “pinning” feature, which requires you to click into a separate “edit mode” to sticky your most-used apps to your Start Menu. A simple, ever-present “pin” icon could have solved this bit.

We also think it’s weird that Modern apps appear by default within your Start Menu’s All Programs listing, a feature you can thankfully switch off within RetroUI Pro’s settings. You can also configure away Modern’s hot corners, but you can’t specify which you’d like to toggle on or off—it’s all or nothing. At least RetroUI Pro really lets you tweak the links that appear on the Start Menu itself.

• Plenty of customization.
• Built-in “ModernUI” Start Menu skin is downright atrocious; stick with Windows 7.
• TabletView gives you more of a visual, Modern-like shortcut list for launching apps.

Additionally, RetroUI Pro’s “Enforce” technology does a great job of sticking your taskbar to the bottom of the screen when you run Modern apps.

Good looks meet powerful customizability

As far as looks go, Start8 presents a very convincing replica of the Windows 7 Start Menu with a few fun twists. First up, switching between that and a Windows 8–themed start menu—a mini-Modern, as it were—is super-easy to do within Start8’s simple configuration app. It’s as easy as changing the skins on the Windows 7 Start Menu, and you get five of those to choose from.

• Powerful functionality (and multi-monitor options).
• Adding Start Menu shortcuts to custom locations on your system is a breeze.
• No way to sticky your taskbar to the bottom of Modern.

As an aside, we love how all of your configuration changes occur in real time within the Start Menu—super-useful for testing out particular settings.

Start8 allows you to customize the various shortcuts that appear on the right side of the Start Menu, including adding shortcuts to any custom locations you want. You can set how you want your Windows Key to work and how Modern’s hot corners should run and, yes, Start8 lets you boot right into Desktop Mode, as well. Delightful!

This isn’t a Start Menu; this is a punishment

The official website of StartMenuPlus8 looks a bit like a cross between a newbie Geocities site and a seizure, and we’re glad to see that the app itself follows suit—consistency’s important.

• Ugly
• Impractical
• We’d rather stick with Modern.

The Start Menu button that StartMenuPlus8 creates on your taskbar is just a standard pinned application. You have to drag it over to the leftmost slot on your taskbar to mimic a start button and, even then, you get no way to disable Windows 8’s hot corners within the app.

It’s hard to describe just how strange this app is, from its less-than-pleasing white-on-black color scheme; to its absurd amount of white space within the Start Menu itself; to the absurd level of unnecessary, difficult-to-parse detail packed into its single configuration window. You can’t fire up the Start Menu and start typing out a search, and some of the app’s own shortcut names don’t even fit on its Start Menu screen. Yuck.

If you want to spruce up the look of the rest of your operating system, we’ve got you covered!

It’s been a year and change since the launch of Microsoft’s Windows 8 OS, and it feels as if there’s still a dearth of apps for tweaking the operating system proper—besides all of the aforementioned Start Menu programs, of course. Still, we’ve identified five apps that do a pretty great job of making Windows 8 prettier, at the very least, and in some instances add new functionality that will enhance your new Modern lifestyle. Now that you’ve souped-up your Start Menu, it’s time to tackle the rest of the OS!

If you can’t stand the full-screen takeover brought on by the Modern portion of Windows 8, then ModernMix is worth the cost of lunch. This super-useful app allows you to run Modern apps as if they were standard applications, run in standard windows, right from Windows 8’s Desktop Mode. You can customize the size of the Modern apps themselves—in case you need a huge weather display, but just a tiny window for Skype—and you can pin them to your taskbar for easier access from your conventional desktop.

We’re big fans of those grayscale Windows 8 “wallpapers” for Modern’s Start screen—and no, we’re not being sarcastic. Even though they look a bit like someone pulled up their favorite Photoshop brush and went to town for a few minutes, they do add a pleasant aesthetic to Modern’s tiled interface.

But you know us—we like customization. The app Decor8 unlocks the ability to turn any background you want into a wallpaper for your Start screen. You can randomize the backgrounds to set intervals if you want your Start screen to always look new and fresh, and the app will even automatically select a new color scheme for your tiles based on the colors of the background image you’ve selected.

Yes, the Windows 8.1 preview adds this functionality, but it could be an interim solution while you wait for the final version.

If there’s one thing we especially detest about Modern’s interface, it’s that system tiles and downloaded apps get all the eye candy and our poor, simple shortcuts get ignored. The freeware OblyTile doles out a little love for your ugly-looking shortcuts by giving you the opportunity to customize them with their own thumbnail image, background color, and text color. Who needs Modern’s tile-grouping functionality when you have color coordination, anyhow?

The customization continues! Now that we’ve successfully freshened up the look of your Start screen, it’s time to give your Lock Screen a little bit of love—assuming you haven’t already used Windows 8’s Group Policy Editor to bypass the Lock Screen entirely. Chameleon, found via the Windows Store, isn’t the most intuitive of Modern apps. However, what it lacks in instruction, it makes up for in comprehensiveness.

Using the app, you can have Windows 8 automatically update your Lock Screen’s background at set intervals and using a number of images from your computer’s photo library or various online sources—including NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day and Bing’s Picture of the Day, to name a few.

This one’s simple. If you want to be able to install third-party themes within Windows 8 (as in, community-created themes instead of those bestowed from Microsoft directly), you’re going to need to patch your operating system with this simple tool. UltraUXThemePatcher is free, it’s fast, and it even backs up the original files it overwrites in case you need to uninstall the utility for some reason.

IObit Start Menu 8 2

IObit Start Menu 8 offers a free but perfect solution for users who are not accustomed to the new Modern start screen in Windows 8 and Windows 10. It brings back both classic start button and Start Menu to Windows 8 and Windows 10. You can select a button that looks like the classic Windows 7 button, or set your favorite picture as the start button in a Windows 8 and Windows 10 style. Furthermore, you can quickly switch to Windows 10 start menu from classic start menu with one-click. You can pin and organize your favorite apps and websites with IObit Start Menu 8. This lets you quickly access your apps, files, as well as the web, by a simple search in the start menu or you can remove them from the start menu easily.

Without Windows 8 start button, users who are not computer gurus may take a long time to access some of the most important system hidden features. Start Menu 8 is designed to help you accessing to the Safe Mode and power options, as well as skipping Modern UI in a fast and easy way.

IObit Start Menu 8 is an easy-to-use program that returns the Windows 10 start menu to familiar Windows 7 style and allows for more customization with just a few clicks of a mouse. Start Menu 8 gives you an option to bring back the local search bar and swap web search with Cortana. With IObit Start Menu 8, you have options to easily change your taskbar including color, alpha, and system time display. Moreover, you can one-click merge taskbar buttons and hide the Cortana/Search box and virtual desktops button which take up substantial taskbar space.

IObit Start Menu 8 Key Benefits:

• More Efficiency and Convenience.

IObit Start Menu 8 not only brings back the convenient Start Menu to Windows 8 and 10, but also allows you to bypass Metro screen on start of Windows and boot to desktop directly.

• Easily Switch between Metro and Desktop Interface.

You can easily switch between two modes by pressing and holding the Windows key, depending on your preference.

• Faster Access to Programs and Files.

IObit Start Menu 8 brings back Start Menu where you can get quicker access to programs, documents and files, control panel and settings.

• Quicker Searching.

Unified and instant searching for both desktop and Metro apps decreases the time taken in searching and makes your work more efficient.

• Customizable to Your Needs.

You can pin programs to Start Menu and Taskbar for quicker access to your favorite programs. It’s easily customizable to have everything you need at just one click.

• Safe and Secure.

IObit Start Menu 8 is safe and secure, and is 100% free of malware.

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2012, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10.

Changes in IObit Start Menu 8 2.4

* Better support for Windows 10

* Easier switch between classic Start menu and Window 10 Start menu

* Faster and easier search from Start menu

Add Start Button - Menu to Windows 8

Windows 8 introduces the Start Screen instead of the traditional Start Menu, which most Windows users have been used too, for years and years! While most have liked the Start Screen, there are some who have not. We will discuss today a few free software that will – sort of – add the Start Menu and the Start Button to Windows 8.

While personally, I may not want to use these freeware. I am sure that this post will interest those who are missing the start menu or start button in Windows 8.

Classic Shell  is a popular software many use on Windows 7  too, to get the classic start menu back or to add Up button, show title bar, get classic feel, etc, in Windows 7 explorer. Classic Shell adds a new customizable start button and a working start menu to Windows 8. Probably your best bet would be to use this program first and see if it suits you, before trying the others.

The Start menu of Iobit StartMenu8 is very identical to the start menu of the Windows 7. One good feature  about the program is it lets users automatically skip the Metro UI screen and immediately gain access to the desktop when Windows 8 loads. Also, it offers an option to directly switch to the Start Screen via its ‘Switch to Metro’ option.

There are some utilities out there in the market that are capable of delivering both, the feel and look of Windows Start Menu. One such utility is StartMenu 7 . The application allows you to right-click on shortcuts but does not support the drag and drop feature.

The basic version of the program can be downloaded free. If you like getting more features, you can buy the Pro version which costs around $20.

ViStart  is a start menu replacement for Windows. and works on Windows 8 too. It provides shortcuts to Computer,  Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos, Control Panel, the Run command and the Network. The left side includes the Internet browser, the email client, the most recent ten programs that you used and the list of all the programs installed on your computer – and more.

While installing ViStart, you may want to decline offers to install RegClean or Babylon toolbar, etc.

Well MetroStart8 is simply a button which launches the start screen. If you like to have a button on your taskbar to launch the start menu/start screen, then this one is for you. It doesn’t do much else as I said, except launch the start screen in Windows 8. It is a small executable, which you have to pin to your task bar like any other program. It comes in five different flavors, and it’s distributed in both 32 and 64 Bit channels.

Start8  too tries to bring the Start menu back to Windows 8. It adds Start Menu to the Windows 8 taskbar, enables quick access and searching of your installed applications, adds Run option via right-click menu, adds Shutdown… option via right-click menu and lets you choose a custom Start button image.

Start Menu X  is an app that gets the Start button and its menu back to Windows 8. The freeware app is a replacement of the system menu for professionals. Start Menu X offers flexible configuration. How? It adds a Start button that can be customized as per one’s requirements.you can create your own start button and use it in Windows 8 as the application is compatible with Windows 8.

StartW8   is yet another option that can also make your PC directly login todesktop, rather than the Start Menu. The start menu embeds amazingly into the taskbar as well as in the system. Once you’ve installed this start menu freeware, whenever you press the ‘Win’ key from your keyboard, you would not be taken to the start screen, but StartW8 will pop out.

The Windows 8 StartButton’s  menu displays commands for search, run, and Help. Besides, it has a Shut Down option too. Right-clicking on the orb brings up the application settings. You can select a particular Start menu style.

If you’d like to switch between the Windows 8 style start menu and Windows 7 style classic start menu, you can do so in a click, with the help of this desktop gadget.  Windows8 Start Menu gadget for Windows 8 makes it easy for you to effect the change. In one click you will able to change from the Windows 8 start menu to the Windows 7 start menu and vice versa.

Pokki lets you add Start Button, Start Menu, Web apps and Gadgets to Windows 8 desktop. You can use Pokki as a social network tool, entertainment tool, business application or a utility. Pokki has a really cool interface, without much GUI components on it. Moreoverthe gadgets that install on Pokki have an awesome interface too.

Power 8 is another start menu replacer for Windows 8, styled and integrated inside taskbar. When you use this tool, you do not need to patch system files or add hooks over system objects. No  app- init DLLs; additional services, drivers,  registry keys, etc are added. It is an open source project.

PSMenu or  Portable Start Menu lets you launch important tools and applications quickly from the System Tray of your Windows PC. While it may not exactly be a Windows 8 start menu offering, this tool can find use on Windows 8 computers too.

Start Menu 8 is another Start Menu offering for Windows 8, that provides a quick and convenient way for users to bring back both the Windows Start Menu and the Start button, while also disabling things like Windows 8 Hot Corners, the Metro Sidebar and hot keys.

Spencer brings back the Classic Windows XP Start Menu to Windows 8. It is a free tool which lets you enjoy the Windows XP style classic Start menu in your Windows 8 PC.

Well, these are some freeware which try to – sort of – add the start menu to Windows 8. Take your pick and let us know your favorite!

My advice? Stop fighting the start screen and get used to it. Most of these freeware will not offer the same functionality, that you were used to in Windows 7. It would be nice if Microsoft were to give users options to choose the start screen or the start menu, but as ofdate, it doesn’t look like Microsoft is going to do away with the start screen.