On Windows 8.1, it replaces the new Start button completely with the new Start menu. Classic Shell provides three styles for the Start menu, based on different versions of Windows. In many ways ...

When Windows 8.1 ships tomorrow, the Start button returns with it—but if ... of making Windows 8.1 easier to use. The free Classic Shell and Pokki go beyond adding a Start menu, offering extra ...

The good news is, despite Microsoft's best efforts to ensure that the Start button and menu remain banished from its new OS, there are a bunch of third-party Windows 8 Start menu replacement apps ...

Open Shell, originally known as Classic ... Start Menu with Windows 7 Start Menu, follow these steps: Go to the Github and download the Open Shell program. Launch the installer. Click on the Next ...

Love it or hate it, Windows 8's most significant user interface change is the Start screen and its accompanying Metro environment. It replaced the classic ... of the Start button and the need ...

In Windows 8, the button is a miniature thumbnail depiction of the Start screen. In 8.1, it will simply be the Windows logo. Search is getting reworked to aggregate search results from multiple ...

Windows 8.1 (Blue) Start screen, with the same wallpaper as the Desktop When you click the Windows 8.1 Start button, you will jump to the Metro "All Apps" view, which is basically a list of every ...

Microsoft details the changes coming to Windows. May 30, 2013 — -- The Start button is getting a fresh start. Microsoft has revealed some of the changes coming to Windows 8.1 and, as expected ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is preparing to revive the traditional Start button it ...