You see, contrary to popular belief, the START menu was not about taste in UI design.
Brings back the Start Button and Start Menu with more functionality and customizability.
As you probably know, there's no Start button, and the Start Menu is comprised of Windows Phone-esque Live Tiles.
To get back to the start, you swipe from the right, revealing something akin to the old Start menu.
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Pin that group to your start menu, and you can bypass all of the junk updates you don't care about.
When first installed, Pokki advertises its apps at the bottom of the Start Menu, but you can turn this off.
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Windows 95 featured the first appearance of the Start menu, taskbar, and minimize, maximize, and close buttons on each window.
Making the Windows Key work like Windows 7, taking the user to the classic desktop and raising the Start Menu.
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There's also an app store, which was Pokki's main business before Windows 8 came along and opened the Start Menu opportunity.
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Navigation: The green Start button always brings you back to the Start menu from any location in your Portable Media Center.
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If I had come here through the Start menu, instead of being wrung through the system, I'd have been none the wiser.
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Of course, I recognize that name from the Start menu in Windows.
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And the familiar start menu in the lower left corner is gone.
In addition to bringing up the Start Menu, you can use it return to the desktop, all without having to hit the keyboard.
To MAKE SURE THAT USERS MIGRATE, Microsoft pulls the biggest stunt of all: Eliminate the START menu and force booting directly to Metro interface.
Yep, in the same way you can start typing to find something on the Start Menu, you can start typing to look up an app.
Users can still switch to a more traditional desktop mode by clicking on an icon, but the environment lacks the start menu button offered since Windows 95.
In the first one, "group, " you'll find a set of live tiles (much akin to the Start menu), with each one representing a member of your group.
Bottom line: Whatever Microsoft does or doesn't do later this year, you can get back your Start Menu and desktop supremacy in Windows 8, right now, with these utilities.
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Makes the new Start screen and Windows 8 Apps run over the desktop, which gives you access to the taskbar and start menu like in Windows 7 and XP.
Many users had complained that ditching the traditional Start Menu and introducing the Start Screen had made the system less straight-forward to use, meaning businesses which adopted it would need to retrain staff.
It doesn't help that they look the same: both have the same redesigned Start Menu, comprised of Live Tiles and native apps like Mail, Calendar, Photos and IE 10, among others.
Microsoft just unveiled the first major update to Windows 8, and it includes tweaks to nearly every aspect of the operating system: the lock screen, Start menu, Windows Store and onscreen keyboard.
For instance, S-Launcher is a desktop widget that replicates the now-extinct Start Menu, live search and all. eSettings, meanwhile, is a centralized options menu for folks who might not know where to find power management or display settings in Win 8.
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RetroUI Pro allows you to brings back features which Microsoft removed in Windows 8, such as the Start Button and Start Menu, and adds RetroUI exclusive features that allow you to run the new Windows 8 Start Screen and new Windows 8 Apps on the classic Windows desktop.
Nevertheless, interest has been sufficient for Stardock to invest in an update that reinstates even more old-school flavor -- including the ability to drag and drop Start menu items, and to disable the new Start screen toggle that appears whenever you move your cursor to that hotly disputed lower-left corner.
We learned today that they have now gone a bridge farther by announcing in their latest minutes that they will add a projection of the federal funds rate (forecast? policy intention? policy goal?) to the menu and start publishing those things (whatever they are, exactly) by individual members, not just the consensus.
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Priaulx got off to a good start in race two but lost the lead to Swiss star Menu on lap three.
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