Customizing and Fixing Windows 8

[David Baxter PhD]

StartW8 - Start Menu for Windows 8 - Get the Start menu back in Windows 8
Retrieved March 13, 2013





StartW8 key features

• Automatically switch to desktop immediately after signing in
• Added Windows Start menu in Windows 8 design, but Windows 7 functionality
• Activate menu with Win key
• Log off, lock and turn off buttons
• Traditional search field
• Favourite applications
• All user configurable
• Support for silent installation
• Multilanguage support (18 languages)
• Option to ignore the lower left Hot corner

Download

New version 1.1.34.0 was launched on Dec. 19, 2012! You can download it here:

• StartW8 from Softpedia
• StartW8 from cNET
• StartW8 from Brothersoft

 

[Retired]

There are numerous review articles on the options for installing a Start button and Classic menu that will also startup Win 8 in desktop mode including this review.

I found all the reviews searching Google with the terms "windows 8 start menu reviews"

Some of the options cost money and those for which you pay may or may not provide satisfactory benefits.

My choice for my Win 8 system was the free and highly rated Classic Shell which I installed three months ago and has proven to be a real pleasure to use. It is highly customizable, plus provides optional classic menus for Windows Explorer as well as Internet Explorer.

Start menus for Windows 8 has become a cottage industry, thanks to the obstinate insistence of Microsoft to force an unpopular interface on half a billion prospective Windows customers.