The application consumes very little resources and is stable. Feel free to download this application, because it's been offered as a freeware. The Classic Start Menu for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 can brings functions that many IT admins and enthusiasts needs. Last, but not least, you can also backup and export your settins into a XML file, or reset all the settings back to default. There are also settings which makes the classic start menu speed up, by entering a lower value than the default 400. The application does have other functions (Classic Shell, Classic Windows Explorer – for Windows 7) and so some features has been disabled for Windows 8 and Server 2012 since they simply don't work, or don't make sense. In fact, the Classic Start Menu application was designed for Windows Vista and Windows 7 at first, but with the start button missing in W8 and Server 2012 the developers brought that in. This small application called Classic Start Menu is slowly becoming a “bestseller” since it's already been translated into 35 languages including Right-to-left support for Arabic and Hebrew. It's pretty cool since you can easily bring the functionality that has been there for decades, and which Microsoft thinks that we don't need anymore… The new UI's name according to Microsoft is “Windows 8-style UI”.īut today what I wanted to show you is a little freeware application which can be used in both systems (W8 and Server 2012) to bring back the start menu button together with classic start menu. Microsoft has come up with new name for Metro, because Metro was meant to be used only as a developper's name for the UI. I still call it metro, because it's shorter, even if Microsoft recently suggested to stop calling that interface Metro style. Virtual infrastructure monitoring software review. Reviews – Virtualization Software and reviews, Disaster and backup recovery software reviews.Videos – VMware Virtualization Videos, VMware ESXi Videos, ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x tips and videos.Free – Free virtualization utilities, ESXi Free, Monitoring and free backup utilities for ESXi and Hyper-V.VMware Workstation and other IT tutorials. How To – ESXi Tutorials, IT and virtualization tutorials, VMware ESXi 4.x, ESXi 5.x and VMware vSphere.Desktop Virtualization – Desktop Virtualization, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion, VMware Horizon View, tips and tutorials.Backup – Virtualization Backup Solutions, VMware vSphere Backup and ESXi backup solutions.Server Virtualization – VMware ESXi, ESXi Free Hypervizor, VMware vSphere Server Virtualization, VMware Cloud and Datacenter Virtualization.Tips – VMware, Microsoft and General IT tips and definitions, What is this?, How this works?.VMware vRealize Operations: Install, Configure, Manage – On Demand.VMware Site Recovery Manager: Install, Configure, Manage.VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale – NEW !!!.VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – NEW !!!.Remember that it’ll also disable new Metro UI and Explorer ribbon UI. It modifies the Registry and changes the value of DWORD. It does the same thing mentioned in the above tutorial. This free utility allows you to switch between classic start menu and new Start screen by just a single click on a big button. “ Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle” is a free and portable tool created by our friend “ Solo-Dev” DA. If you don’t want to edit the Windows registry manually, here in this topic we are going to share a free and very small utility which will allow you to toggle between new Start screen and old Start menu quickly and easily. How to Enable Good Old Windows Vista and 7 Style Start Menu and Disable Metro UI in Windows 8 Developer Preview? We shared a small registry tweak to enable the classic start menu and disable new Start screen in following tutorial: Microsoft has replaced Start menu with new Start Screen in Windows 8. Windows 8 Developer Preview build doesn’t come with old Windows Vista and 7 style Start menu.
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