Software Listing: Classic Start Menu
- Windows8 StartMenu
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Windows8 StartMenu is a small gadget that allows you to change the default Metro UI style of the Start Menu to the Windows 7 style with one click. Windows8 StartMenu has a simple and comprehensive interface that will quickly guide you through all its features..
- Publisher: Fernando Cerqueira
- Date: 13-10-2012
- Size: 215 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- AnyStart
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

AnyStart is a very small, powerful tool,to facilitate the invocation of programs and files. Do you know this (?): after a time you've got your favorite programs for quick access on your desktop and in the quick launch, untill it is full and quick access becomes slow access. If an application is running the desktop is not really reachable for the next program and navigate the start menu didn't become more convenient since Windows XP... Improvement brings AnyStart: - it doesn't occupy any space on your screen untill you actually use it - fast and easy to configure - allows individual configuration for each user.
- Publisher: vb-Zentrum
- Date: 13-05-2012
- Size: 1065 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- SMOz (Start Menu Organizer)
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

SMOz (Start Menu Organizer) is a tool that can organize the Windows start menu. SMOz has an easy to use interface with undo/redo support, batch organization, and can associate start menu items with installed programs to ease management of start menu..
- Publisher: smoz.sourceforge.net
- Date: 23-10-2012
- Size: 1003 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- StartMenu8
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

StartMenu8 is specially designed for Window 8. It offers a perfect solution for users who work with Windows Start Menu all the time and are not accustomed to the new Metro start screen in Windows 8. This smart tool brings back both the start button and Windows Start Menu, and offers the option to skip Metro start page, allowing users who only work on desktop to boot to Windows 8 desktop directly. It\'s the best start menu replacement for Windows8. Key Feature: +More Efficiency and Convenience StartMenu8 not only brings back the convenient Start Menu to Windows 8, but also allows you to bypass Metro screen on start of Windows 8 and boot to desktop directly.
- Publisher: IObit
- Date: 18-12-2012
- Size: 3678 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- FastKeys
- License: Shareware
- Price: 9.99

All in One Windows Automation software. Fully configurable Start menu, Shortcuts and Text Expander. User-defined commands to run files, open webpages, send macros or automate anything. Incredibly powerful but yet simple to use. Build your own fully configurable START MENU - Launcher to start any activity on computer. Simply touch the screen edge to call the menu. It is always there and is fully adaptable to your needs. Great for Windows 8. Make your keyboard or mouse SHORTCUTS to do just about anything with a keystroke. Run programs, open files, folders and sites or make your own powerful scripts to automate Windows desktop and applications.
- Publisher: FastKeys Software
- Date: 09-03-2013
- Size: 1236 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Win8Starter
- License: Shareware
- Price: 5.99

Win8Starter: Start button and start menu for Windows8! Start button and start menu belong to Windows 8! You cannot find the start menu of Windows 8? No wonder, as Microsoft did not adopt the start button, which was traditionally placed at an exposed position on the task bar, for Windows 8; instead, they now rely completely on the new Metro start screen. Official explanation: hardly any users uses the start button and the start menu. We think: Start button and start menu belong to Windows 8! You agree? Then get back your much-loved habits and attach a bit of Windows 7 nostalgia to your brand-new Windows 8.
- Publisher: Engelmann Media GmbH
- Date: 30-10-2012
- Size: 3270 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Sticky Tiles for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Sticky Tiles for Windows 8 is a simple but efficient application that allows you to remember important events and facts by pinning live tiles on the Start menu. The user can create multiple tiles and arrange them on the menu with just a few clicks.
The tiles can be personalized by using different colors, layouts and sizes for certain event types.
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- Publisher: Nirmit Kavaiya
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- 8StartButton
- License: Shareware
- Price: 12.00

8StartButton is not just a start screen button, it is a full start button with a full new designed start menu
Access the new 8StartButton start menu, the Windows 8 apps screen, or the Windows 8 start screen with a regular left mouse button click
Fully functional start button
Just as you're used it from previous Windows versions: a real start button + start menu: a brand new one - not a cloned one
Highly customizable
Edit all start menu tiles, add additional tiles, and up to 10 custom start menu buttons. Skin the start button with own images
Fully functional start menu
A fully featured new tree view start menu with right click Explorer menu support - designed in the Windows 8 'Modern UI' style
Full control over Windows 8
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- Publisher: Totalidea Software New Zealand Ltd.
- Date:
- Size: 15564 KB
- Platform: Windows 8
- StartIsBack
- License: Shareware

StartIsBack is a lightweight application that allows you to return the standard Start Menu and Start button to Windows 8.
If you cannot get used to the new Metro Start Screen, just use StartIsBack and bring the Start Menu back!
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- Publisher: Tihiy
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8, WinServer
- StartMenuPlus8
- License: Shareware

StartMenuPlus8 is meant to help users get the most of their Windows 8 computer by restoring the functionality of the well-known Start Menu.
Once you install this application, you can get easier access to your folders and applications, and you can also shut down or reboot your PC with ease.
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- Publisher: Winok
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- DisableWinKey
- License: Shareware

DisableWinKey is a quick and dirty tool for Windows that was designed to prevent the Windows key from launching the Start Menu and stealing focus from your application. Particularly useful if you are prone to hit the Windows key instead of the Ctrl or Alt keys in full screen games.
DisableWinKey doesn't actually disable the Windows key, like its name implies. It just prevents the Start Menu from stealing focus when you press it. It also prevents Ctrl+Esc from working, incidentally.
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- Publisher: Jeremy Stanley
- Date:
- Platform: Win7 x64, Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Smorg
- License: Shareware

Smorg is an easy to use application that allows you to organize folders and files in your start menu using drag & drop.
It has full undo support. Smorg is separate from the Operating System, so it does not run all the time and consume valuable system resources nor interfere with the standard behavior of your system. Instead, start Smorg only when you want to organize the Start Menu.
A dual folder view shows all and favorite folders so you can quickly identify additions that need attention. While shortcuts in the menu are shown with their standard icon in a separate view.
The built-in menu detective finds duplicate, new and broken items---offering fixes where possible---making easier to move shortcuts for updated programs into the right place.
- Publisher: Blue Leaf Software
- Date:
- Platform: Win7 x64, Windows 7, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- SmartStartMenu
- License: Shareware

If you ever use the 'Start' menu then you will find that this free Windows utility is a much better way to open the item that you are looking for. SmartStartMenu helps you to turn the task of running any program and opening any documnent, folder, or website into a two or three key-stroke effort. SmartStartMenu uses what you type to generate "on-the-fly" alphabetized lists of shortcut items from your 'Start' menu and any other folders you have configured to be scanned. Since SmartStartMenu is based on shortcuts (your 'Start' menu is just a collection of shortcuts) there is no "alias" database to maintain or complicated configuration interface to learn.
- Publisher: planetharrington.com
- Date:
- Size: 901 KB
- Platform: WinOther, WinVista
- WickedOrange - StartMenuEx
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

What is StartMenuEx? StartMenuEx, or smx (pronounced semex), is a replacement for the Windows Start Menu. It is fully customizable, and also supports user created themes and plugins. -Why should I use StartMenuEx? Smx takes over your Windows Start Menu, and allows you to have only the items you want in there, allowing you to find programs, browse your computer, open MSN Messenger contact windows and many other tasks much more efficiently than usual. Because smx is totally customisable, it is only limited by your imagination. Try smx out today, you won t be sorry! -How much does StartMenuEx cost? Nothing.
- Publisher: wickedorange.com
- Date:
- Size: 665 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Start Menu Click History Viewer
- License: Shareware

Every time you open a program from the start menu, the date and number of times you used it is stored in an encrypted database. The Start Menu Click History Viewer reads the Explorer UserAssist Data from the registry and allows you to see exactly that information is stored in this location.
When first looking at the contents of this registry key one might think they have been infected by a trojan or something. But in fact, it's EXPLORER.EXE, a Windows system program, that writes these keys.
Among the information stored you will find references to local files, titles of web pages, .
- Publisher: Pointstone Software, LLC
- Date:
- Size: 276 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows 7, WinOther, WinServer, WinVista
- M-OS skin for Start menu
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

This is 'M-OS' skin for 'Start menu'.
You need the application, 'Start menu for Android', to apply this skin.
Download: http://goo.gl/lTxE2I
.- Publisher: ChYK
- Date: 01-05-2014
- Size: 209 KB
- Platform: Android 2.x, Android 3.x, Android 4.4, Android 4.x
- QuickStart
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

QuickStart allows you to quickly find items in your Start Menu, Favorites, Recent Files, Desktop and History, that match a typed keyword. In addition, you can specify a custom directory, as well as file extensions to look for. Just type in the keyword and press enter to be presented with a list of items that match your entry - you can then select and launch the program, link or file by selecting it from the list. This program is Freeware (no ads, no nag screens, no limitations). Features: - Launch applications, documents, etc, by simply typing a keyword. - Automatically load keywords from the Start Menu, Favorites, etc - Launch explorer by typing a directory path.
- Publisher: Tijn Hoekstra
- Date: 02-02-2004
- Size: 885 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther
- CDMenuPro
- License: Shareware
- Price: 49.95

Use CDMenuPro to start your CD or DVD automatically with your own individually designed CD autoplay menu - corporate presentations, documents, product catalogs, dissertations, job applications or slide show. Use a clear and professional CD start menu to set you and your corporate presentation apart from the competition. CDMenuPro CDMenuPro is a software tool for creating individual menu applications with graphically illustrated user interfaces. You or the user can use the menu to start programs and documents with buttons. Your time is precious Invest your time in the creative design of your menu rather than learning how to use a difficult-to-use software application or spending hours reading a manual.
- Publisher: Klaus Schwenk
- Date: 11-01-2005
- Size: 5139 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- CDMenuPro Personal Edition
- License: Shareware
- Price: 44.95

Use CDMenuPro to start your CD or DVD automatically with your own individually designed CD autoplay menu - corporate presentations, documents, product catalogs, dissertations, job applications or slide show. Use a clear and professional CD start menu to set you and your corporate presentation apart from the competition. CDMenuPro CDMenuPro is a software tool for creating individual menu applications with graphically illustrated user interfaces. You or the user can use the menu to start programs and documents with buttons. Your time is precious Invest your time in the creative design of your menu rather than learning how to use a difficult-to-use software application or spending hours reading a manual.
- Publisher: Klaus Schwenk
- Date: 10-06-2004
- Size: 4609 KB
- Platform: Win2000, WinOther
- Key Launch
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Key Launch is the time saving utility by Konrad Papala, helping you open your applications quicker than using the Start Menu. Instead of clicking the Start Button and using the your mouse or other pointing device to navigate through potentially several menus, Key Launch lets you use your keyboard instead, and brings an idea seen in Windows Vista and 7 to Windows XP, 2003 and 2000.
After the first install, depending on the amount of programs you have installed on your computer, Key Launch may spend a while indexing. This means that its looking at whats installed on your computer and compiling a list, so that keywords can be used to quickly open a program.
- Publisher: Konrad Papala
- Date: 19-07-2011
- Size: 976 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther

















