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Start Menu 7 является программой, которая устанавливает улучшенный вариант меню «Пуск», отличающееся от стандартного тем, что ярлыки установленных приложений располагаются по алфавиту и всегда расположены на одном и том же месте. Удаление одной из программ место расположения других ярлыков программ не изменяет, а удаленный ярлык образует пропуск, заполняемый при установке новой программы. Рядом с названием программы или папки в Start Menu 7 выводится ее иконка, что намного нагляднее, чем в обычном. Также можно создавать, редактировать и перемещать пункты меню, что дает возможность, например, легко создавать перечень часто используемых обычных и виртуальных папок с целью быстрого доступа к ним. С помощью таймера можно отложить перезагрузку или выключение компьютера.

Другие статьи, обзоры программ, новости

2015? No Way Microsoft! How To Get Your Windows 8

2015. No Way Microsoft! How To Get Your Windows 8.1 Start Menu Now

In April, Microsoft demonstrated a Start Menu mock-up, which fueled speculations that this much-demanded feature would make a return with Windows 8.1 Update 2. Recently, however, Microsoft clarified that the Start Menu won’t be rolled into a new version of Windows until 2015. Well, you certainly don’t have to wait that long.

Whether you’re on Windows 8 or have upgraded to Windows 8.1. you can get your Start Menu back right now.

Third Party Start Menus

As soon as it became clear that the Start Menu was missing from Windows 8, developers got busy and released third party software that emulates the classic Start Menu. We have previously covered alternatives and here’s a summary of what’s out there.

Classic Shell

If all you want is the old school Windows Start Menu, possibly with a retro skin, Classic Shell is the way to go. With Classic Shell installed, Windows 8 will automatically boot to the desktop and display a functional Start button. Right-click the Start Menu to get into the app’s Settings. where you can change the skin, among other things.

Classic Shell can also fix odd new behaviours in Windows Explorer; just find the new menu button and right-click it for Settings .

Start Menu 8

What IObit has done really well here is the onboarding process. Right after installing Sart Menu 8 (be sure to opt out of the Advanced System Care install), it launches the Settings screen where you can choose a style for the Start Menu and button, define the app’s behavior, and populate its content.

Start Menu 8 allows you to disable hot corners and set hotkeys under General Settings .

Try this Start Menu, if you’d like to see something fresh.

If you are trying to install Pokki on Windows 8.1, note that you have to apply a little trick to make it work. When hovering over the Windows 8.1 Start button, notice the tiny black bar. Right-click it and uncheck Show Windows logo button to reveal Pokki’s Home button.

Pokki sports three tabs. My Favorites, All Apps, and Control Panel. By clicking and activating the star next to items listed in the latter two, you populate your favorites grid. You can then drag and drop them into your preferred order.

To change what else you see in the menu sidebar, the theme, and advanced settings, right-click the Pokki Home button and choose Settings. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a way to get rid of the ads displayed below your favorites (hidden in screenshot above).

Start Menu X

This utility has been around for a long time. It’s available for Windows XP through 8.1 and we have reviewed it in a previous incarnation, when it was called Start Menu 7. In Windows 8, it adds a Start button and a customizable Start Menu.

The free version adds a Start button and Menu, it supports shut-down timers, internal document search, and up to five virtual groups. On top of that, the Pro version ($9.99) offers unlimited virtual groups, one-click launch, and tabs.

Start8 ($4.99)

Start8 is Stardock’s answer to the Start Menu challenge. It’s the only app in this list that doesn’t offer a free version, but you can try it for 30 days before having to make a purchase. In his article on alternative Start Menus. Matt found that Start8’s main benefit was it’s ease of use. In terms of features it doesn’t compete with the other options in this list, although it offers some nice styling options.

If you’re a fan of Stardock and care much about first impressions and sleek interfaces, try Start8.

What Else Is There To Say About Third Party Tools

Note that the native Start button might still pop up when you trigger the bottom left hot corner. You can use it to switch to the Start screen. If you find it’s nothing but an eyesore, however, you can hide the Start button .

By the way, one tool I wouldn’t recommend is ViStart because it doesn’t offer anything special and the Start Search doesn’t include results from the Control Panel.

Do It Yourself Workarounds & Native Options

Would you prefer to avoid additional software that consumes precious resources? We have come up with three simple workarounds that will get you what you want without sacrificing performance.

Use A Custom Windows Toolbar

Windows Toolbars can contain any shortcuts you want. Why not make them link to the items you used to keep in your Start Menu? It might not be as pretty, but it’s practical.

In his article (see header link above), Christian takes you through the process of booting to the desktop, setting up a custom toolbar, and adding shortcuts. This method is suitable for Windows 8 and 8.1 alike.

In case this made you wonder what else Windows Toolbars are good for. we have some suggestions.

Customize The Win+X Menu

Unless you were a frequent user of the Windows Mobility Center in earlier versions of Windows, you probably didn’t know this menu existed. The keyboard shortcut Win+X now opens a power user menu, also known as quick access menu. Alternatively, you can right-click the bottom left corner of your screen. This menu is pretty useful the way it is, but you can get a lot more out of it by adding the shortcuts you really need.

Chris demonstrates what you can do with Win+X Menu Editor. including adding shortcuts to shut down or restart, system tools, programs, and more. Click the header link above for the full article.

Connect The Start Button To A Customized Apps Screen

In Windows 8.1, the Start button made its return and users were quite disappointed when they found out it only re-directed them to the Start screen. Microsoft really knows how to tease, don’t they?

If you’re trying to avoid the Modern interface, the Start screen is not what you want to see. The Apps view on the other hand can be quite useful, particularly after you customized it to show the shortcuts you frequently use.

In my article (see link in header above), I’ve outlined how you can boot to the desktop, make the Start button open the Apps screen, edit what’s already there, and add additional shortcuts.

Happy Now?

Are you satisfied with your new Windows 8 Start Menu? What else do you think is missing from Windows 8.1 Update that should be delivered with Update 2?

Share your thoughts in the comments and maybe we can recommend more workarounds and ways you can customize Windows to your needs .

Five tools to bring the Start menu back to Windows 8

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    Oct 16, 2013 3:30 AM

When Windows 8.1 ships tomorrow, the Start button returns with it—but if it’s the Start menu you miss, you’ll still need one of these utilities. They bring back the classic pop-up menu that Windows 8 summarily removed, and they add extra features and customization that Microsoft never thought of. Most are free, and the only one that costs anything is well worth its extremely low price. Whether you make the jump to Windows 8.1 immediately or wait a bit, there’s really no point in waiting to enjoy these enhancements to your Windows experience.

Just give me the Start menu

Clicking the Start button just puts you into the Windows 8.1 Start page—but fortunately, programs that bring back the classic Start menu still work. The simplest of the programs I tested are Stardock’s $5 Start8 , IOBit’s free Start Menu 8. and ReviverSoft’s free Start Menu Reviver.

All three produce decent facsimiles of the Start menu, but Stardock’s Start8 does the most accurate job of reproducing it. Start8 is still very useful under 8.1, offering a choice of the Windows 7 look-alike Start menu or the new Windows 8 Start page.

It’s easy to switch between the two approaches. You don’t get the same amount of control that you get with other menu programs, though. You can’t configure the look and feel of the menu very much, and you can’t create custom shortcuts.

Start Menu 8 performs similarly to Start8, producing a decent reproduction of the Windows 7 Start menu. It lacks some of the design polish of Start8, but its nice extra touches include the ‘Switch to Metro’ button that takes you to the Microsoft Start page, and the MetroApps option, which provides direct access to apps that use only the Windows 8 Metro interface. These make it a little more useful for those who want to bridge the gap between the two versions.

Start Menu Reviver, as the name suggests, also brings back the Start menu, but it dispenses with the past and instead adopts a look that’s in line with the Modern design style of Windows 8 itself. It doesn’t take over the desktop—the Microsoft Start page is still accessible as one of the tiles.

The most interesting feature in Start Menu Reviver is the ability to create and tweak tiles. You can create a tile for any installed program by dragging and dropping its icon onto the menu itself. You can also easily move, resize, or delete existing tiles, making this new style menu very easy to customize.

For anyone looking simply to replicate the Windows 7 Start menu, Start Menu 8 is the simplest and most flexible option. But Start Menu Reviver impressed me: It feels more like a Windows 8 program, and it provides a lot of flexibility. And it’s fair to say that all of these programs do a better job than Microsoft itself of making Windows 8.1 easier to use.

Delicious tidbits not on the usual menu

The free Classic Shell and Pokki go beyond adding a Start menu, offering extra features that actually improve the Windows experience. In fact, both of them predate Windows 8, making them the only programs here that you can test-drive on an earlier operating system.

Classic Shell 4.0 adds a number of new features to Windows 8.1, including a customizable Start menu, enhancements to Windows Explorer, and tweaks for Internet Explorer.

Classic Shell’s Start menu offers three designs: a classic, Windows-XP-type design; a two-column, Vista-like design; and a Windows-7-style Start menu. The Start Screen of Windows 8.1 isn’t completely replaced, though: Instead, Classic Shell pins the Start Screen at the top of the Start menu and lists all of the programs from that screen as menu items under All Programs > Apps.

If you would prefer to add to rather than replace the new Start button, Pokki creates an alternative way to start programs. In Windows 8.1, Pokki works alongside the returning Microsoft Start button, adding a button called Home. This brings up the Pokki menu, which offers a customizable list of program shortcuts, as well as a few familiar options from the pre-Windows 8 Start menu.

If you have a long list of programs, you can search by typing a letter in Pokki’s search box. This kind of search also turns up control panels and files.

Pokki also offers a range of free programs (such as Angry Birds and Instagram client Instagrille ) that you can install with a single click. You can pin any installed program to a spot on the home menu, which can hold up to 25 program shortcuts per page (there are four additional pages available, for a total of 125 shortcuts). If you don’t want to scroll between pages, a text window at the top of the menu allows you to search by name: Just type the first letter, and the list of shortcuts that begin with that letter show up.

Overall, Pokki still provides an excellent accompaniment to the Microsoft Start menu and Start page, allowing you to start programs faster and more efficiently, and install new ones quicker and easier than you could via Microsoft’s own App Store.

These apps smarten the Start in Windows 8.1

When Windows 8.1 was first announced, we thought these apps might be finished. But that’s not happening: Microsoft’s poor compromise of linking the Start button and the Start page still leaves a features gap that these utilities address.

These five apps offer a solution that Microsoft itself seems to not understand: Give the users what they want, and the power to tweak it to their requirements.

Where is the Start menu? Windows Help

Where is the Start menu? Applies to Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1

The Start screen replaces the Start menu in Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1.

Open Start by swiping in from the right edge of the screen and then tapping Start. (Or, if you're using a mouse, point to the lower-left corner of the screen, move your mouse all the way into the corner, and then click Start .)

All of your apps — the apps you install from the Windows Store and desktop apps—are available in the Apps view on the Start screen. To get to the Apps view, swipe up from the middle of the screen or click the arrow button . You can pin apps to Start to easily access what you use most, and you can also pin websites and contacts.

To pin an app to Start

Open Start by swiping in from the right edge of the screen and then tapping Start. (Or, if you're using a mouse, point to the lower-left corner of the screen, move your mouse all the way into the corner, and then click Start .)

Suffer not: 10 Windows Start menus for Windows 8

Although Windows 8's Start menu is still MIA in Windows 'Blue,' a smorgasbord of replacements can fill the void

Start here

It seems Microsoft really has put its Windows Start menu out to pasture, alongside Bob, Clippy, and Rover. Sure, the forthcoming 8.1 update to Windows 8 has a shiny new Start button, but clicking it doesn't cause a familiar menu to pop up, providing users quick access to their preferred apps and files. Why'd Microsoft retire the menu in the first place? It was a design choice made by Steven Sinofsky. former head of Microsoft's Windows division.

Classic Shell

Classic Shell was originally designed to replace the Windows 7 Start menu with the XP-style Start menu. Now it brings a Windows 7 Start experience to Windows 8 users. Apps can be pinned to the menu area via drag and drop. A pair of flyout menus provides access to classic Desktop programs and Metro apps, respectively. The program also supports starting directly in the Desktop and disabling Windows 8 hot corners.

Start Menu - Restore in Windows 8

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This tutorial will show you how to restore the Start Menu for all users in Windows 8 and 8.1 using your choice of free programs.

Here's a list of some free Start Menu replacements for Windows 8 that are not already in the tutorial below.

Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but were later removed. It has a customizable Start menu and Start button for Windows 7 and Windows 8, it adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features. Look here for the full list.

Power8 gives you a Start button that opens a Start Menu full of features . From the left pane, you can pin your favorite applications and access all your programs via the Programs menu. From the right pane, you can open specific folders, such as Computer, Libraries, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Network. You have a search box field at the bottom to search for any application, file, or other item on your PC.

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Программа добавляет в Windows 8 меню "Пуск". Это наиболее пригодится тем пользователям, какие употребляли меню "Пуск" в прежних версиях Windows и не могут привыкнуть к экрану "Metro" Windows 8.

Добавляет на панель задач операционной системы Windows 8 меню "Пуск", и сможет пропускать экран "Metro", переходя сразу же на рабочий стол. Лучшая из программ, добавляющих меню "Пуск" в Windows 8. Есть возможность комфортно переходить от десктопа к "Metro" и обратно. Программа содержит функцию моментального поиска требуемых приложений. Поведение и внешность просто поменять путем использования пункта "Настройки" контекстного меню. Есть возможность установить вид кнопки "Пуск", указать пропуск стартового экрана, при старте системы, производить отключение активных углов и боковой панели экрана и многое другое. Вы сможете применять меню "Пуск" в операционной системе Windows 8 с таковой же легкостью, как Вы это производили в Windows 7 либо XP. Эта версия программы создана специально для работы в Windows 8.1.

Информация о программе:

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Where is the auto startup folder in Windows 8

Where is the auto startup folder in Windows 8.1, or 8? If you want to open the startup folder in Windows 8.1 or 8, E.g. to auto start the programs with Windows, here is the solution for Windows (7, 8, 8.1)!

The fastest way to opening the startup folder of Windows 8.1 is via the address shell:startup. that you can enter in address bar of MS Explorer, or use for a new Windows 8.1 desktop shortcut.

Or via the Windows 8.1 Run dialog box [Windows-logo] + [R] and enter the command shell:startup

There is still a second startup folder shell:common startup  this is responsible for all users, when here, an entry is made, or deleted, it is valid for all users on the PC. (. see Image-2 Arrow-1 )

PS: Here is the alternative addresses!

Autostart for currently logged-on user:

shell:startup = %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

And startup folder all users:

shell:common startup = %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

shell:start menu is the Startmenu folder in Windows 8!