How To Restore The Traditional Windows 7 Start Menu In Windows 8......

How To Restore The Traditional Windows 7 Start Menu In Windows 8 Consumer Preview

As far as download numbers are concerned, the Consumer Preview of Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 has gone down pretty well – building on the popularity of the early Alpha release with over a million downloads in its 24 hours.

As PC users digest some of the newer features clustered into the much-discussed Metro interface, not everybody has been too chuffed to see the demise of the traditional Start Menu – a prominent Windows feature since its commercial inception.

Enable Windows 7 Start Menu In Windows 8 Consumer Preview [How-To] | Redmond Pie

**** BE AWARE.
Please note, if you do go ahead and install ViStart, you will be offered third-party programs (Babylon toolbar and Registry Cleaner Pro) during the install process which you probably won’t want cluttering up your installed items list.****

 

[Ivo]

@gborn: I noticed in your screenshots that you are using the Settings in English. You can translate the UI in German if you download de-DE.dll and place it in your Classic Shell folder.

 

[Vince53]

Four days ago, I installed a program for adding the Vista Start Menu to Windows 7. I have a desktop icon instead of a Start button, but it works fine and does not interfere, at all, with the Metro interface.

 

[Mike Lonewolf]

How are you getting the right click menu in ViStart NightHawk? Doesn't work for me.

 

[Night Hawk]

How are you getting the right click menu in ViStart NightHawk? Doesn't work for me.

I don't have ViStart on I simply gave that a look as well as the Start8 but stayed with the Start menu 7 SIW pointed to.

As far as the right click menu in 8 that's down in the same lower left corner as the Start screen pop up. Only instead of a single left click you right click to bring up the menu for things like the Admin tools, Disk Management, Run, Search, etc. there.

What would be good for the Start menu 7 however would be the shutdown, restart, logoff button the other two see whlie it has the Start button which tends to be under the taskbar at times. When manually pinning the Programs folder as a new toolbar the desktop shortcuts you can create for those items are simply dragged into the Programs folder and appear beneath the program folders you normally would find in the Start menu.

When using one of these addons the best place found for the taskbar position was at the top not bottom as you typically see as default. Thar avoids misclicks with the Start screen and right click menu at the bottom.