Software Listing: Windows 8 Start Menu Replacement
- Start Screen Unlimited
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Unleash the full power of Windows 8 Start Screen with Start Screen Unlimited! This little tool will unlock the hidden abilities of Windows 8 Start Screen, allowing you to add numerous gadgets such as digital clock, Google search, power controls or the entire Control Panel directly to the start screen. The ability to customize your Start Screen with your favorite apps and colors, adding people, photos and other tiles is a built-in feature in Windows 8. However, Windows only allows adding certain types of tiles to the Start Screen. With Start Screen Unlimited, you can easily bypass these limitations, and customize your Start Screen with just about anything.
- Publisher: Greatis Software
- Date: 23-12-2014
- Size: 2258 KB
- Platform: Windows 8
- ViStart 2.0 B3807
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

ViStart is a very small, but perfect Start Menu replacement for your Microsoft Windows XP system. ViStart will now index all personal files and program files and give ACTUAL instant results thats 4 times faster then the real Vista start menu. FEATURES: Launch Programs faster then ever before: · ViStart dramatically decreases the time taken to search for programs by indexing your program shortcuts. Then you can simply type part of the program into the start menu and ViStart will &instantly& find it. Find files faster then Vista: · ViStart not only indexes programs but also files as well.
- Publisher: Lee Matthew Chantrey
- Date: 19-06-2012
- Size: 481 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- 1st TurboRun
- License: Shareware
- Price: 24.95

1st TurboRun is Net's most convenient Start menu replacement. Don't know what "Start menu replacement means?" Here is a simple explanation. Imagine you want to open a text document or search Google.com to find something. Usually you would have to go to Start menu, browse through folders, find a document you need and then open it. In case with web search, you would first have to find your web browser, launch it, then enter URL, and finally type in your search phrase. 1st TurboRun makes all this unnecessary. One mouse click and website or document is accessed. This is how the program works.
- Publisher: Green Parrots Software
- Date: 27-09-2004
- Size: 751 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- XP App Wizard
- License: Shareware
- Price: 15.00

In many homes, more than one person uses a single computer. Windows XP allows each user to customize his or her Start Menu and startup applications. Unfortunately, it can be difficult and time-consuming to configure the Start Menu using the base Windows XP installation. The XP App Wizard provides an intuitive, easy-to-use interface that allows you to add or remove items to your Windows XP Start Menu user-by-user..
- Publisher: Software Informatics Group
- Date: 04-02-2002
- Size: 598 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
- Start Button 8
- License: Shareware

This is a set of two programs: Start Button for Windows 8 and the convenient Start Menu. How to add a Start Button to Windows 8? There are different answers to this question. But only Start Button 8 offers a convenient solution that is safe for your Windows. You will get a Start Button that can be customized. You can add and create your own skins for the Start Button. Start Button 8 is fully compatible with older versions of Windows. This installation package contains a very convenient menu that is perfectly compatible with touch screen devices and mice
- Windows XP, 7, 8 compatible - Select a cool skin for the Start button or create your own one
- Start Button 8 uses GPU and multi-threading - Start Button 8 does not modify system files and is easy to install or remove
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- Publisher: OrdinarySoft
- Date:
- Size: 6164 KB
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- 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
- RetroUI Pro (64-bit)
- License: Shareware
- Price: 4.95

RetroUI Pro brings revolutionary technologies to Windows 8, enabling it to be used efficiently on every type of PC. Included with RetroUI Pro is new patent-pending technology called RetroUI Enforce™. Enforce brings back the Windows taskbar and Start button when the Windows 8 Start screen (Metro) is active. Windows Store (Metro) apps are now windowed so you can resize them and reposition them around the desktop. RetroUI Pro also replaces the missing Start menu with a customizable start menu that integrates the Modern UI (Metro) features so you don’t have to search for the charms bar or hidden corners anymore.
- Publisher: Thinix
- Date: 10-12-2012
- Size: 5 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- RetroUI Pro (32-bit)
- License: Shareware
- Price: 4.95

RetroUI Pro brings revolutionary technologies to Windows 8, enabling it to be used efficiently on every type of PC. Included with RetroUI Pro is new patent-pending technology called RetroUI Enforce. Enforce brings back the Windows taskbar and Start button when the Windows 8 Start screen (Metro) is active. Windows Store (Metro) apps are now windowed so you can resize them and reposition them around the desktop. RetroUI Pro also replaces the missing Start menu with a customizable start menu that integrates the Modern UI (Metro) features so you don\'t have to search for the charms bar or hidden corners anymore.
- Publisher: Thinix
- Date: 21-12-2012
- Size: 7033 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Windows 7 Classic Start Menu
- License: Shareware
- Price: 19.99

Are you missing the in Windows 7 Classic Start Menu? If so, you are not alone; we have developed this Classic Start Menu for you, and now you can easily change the unusable menu of Windows 7 to the well known classic start menu with Aero skin. Actually, you can use other skins too, not just the Aero one. Yet, with Aero, you make the Classic Start Menu look like a real part of Windows 7.
The Classic Start Menu provides many unique features that don't come with traditional system menus:
- One-click launch helps you run programs faster.
- Use Classic Start menu as a starting point.
- Publisher: OrdinarySoft
- Date:
- Size: 7526 KB
- Platform: Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther
- Start Menu X
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

With the latest release of Windows 8, it’s time to kiss goodbye to the Windows start menu which has been with Windows ever since Windows 95. It’s been changing since Windows XP, however has totally disappeared in Windows 8. Conveniently, Start Menu X may be able to help you if you’re lost and in desperation without your trusty start menu, and works perfectly alongside the Metro Start Menu in Windows 8, as an additional menu, or a replacement for the current Windows 7 start menu if you’re looking for one with a little bit more to it and that is a little more customizable!
Start Menu X can run alongside the current Windows start menu if you want it to (Windows 7 or earlier).
- Publisher: OrdinarySoft
- Date: 11-06-2015
- Size: 5838 KB
- Platform: WinOther, Win98, Win2000, WinXP, Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows 8, Windows Phone 7, Windows Phone 8, Windows RT, WinServer, WinMobile, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Classic Start Menu
- License: Shareware
- Price: 19.99

Over fifteen years have passed since we first saw the very new and very exciting Windows Start Menu in 1995, seen in Windows 95. The Start Menu changed only very slightly over the next few released of Windows, however Windows XP in 2001 saw big changes, and these changes become permanent in Windows 7, not to mention Windows 8. Some people were not so keen on the new style of Start Menu, and this is where Classic Start Menu comes into play. Classic Start Menu is a third party application that can replace the Windows XP, Vista, or 7 Start menu with a more familiar looking menu, so that you can get on with your work without having to work out the new Windows Start Menu.
- Publisher: OrdinarySoft
- Date: 01-07-2011
- Size: 11131 KB
- Platform: Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther
- Calendar Live Tile for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Calendar Live Tile allows you to view the current month on the Start screen of your Windows 8 device. You can use the program to personalize the calendar and to pin multiple tiles on the Start screen.
The interface of the tiles is fully customizable and you can easily change the font name or the color used for marking the current day.
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- Publisher: gishtaki
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Tile Genie for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Tile Genie for Windows 8 is a handy and reliable application designed to divide images into tiles that can be placed in the start screen.
Highlights include the possibility to choose the number of tiles, as well as linking a website to each of them.
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- Publisher: McMullen Software
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Tile Time for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Tile Time for Windows 8 is a practical tool that enables you to view the current time even when you are using the Start Screen. It is designed to display the current time in a customizable tile that can be positioned anywhere on the Start Screen.
You can change the clock layout and the colors that will be used in order to match your Start Screen style.
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- Publisher: Ying Xiong
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- 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
- Vista Start Menu
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Vista Start Menu was specifically designed to replace the often confusing menu in Windows XP and Windows Vista. For your convenience, the interface has been developed with human psychology taken into account. Solve tasks in a simpler and quicker way. Vista Start Menu offers many new features not available in the system Start menu. You can start a program or open a document in a couple of keystrokes, without having to take your hands away from the keyboard. Easy-to-use zooming allows those with large monitors and people with poor eyesight to work with comfort. If you have many programs, they will all fit onto the screen because you will be able to stretch the Start menu and resize it any way you like.
- Publisher: OrdinarySoft
- Date: 25-05-2011
- Size: 9695 KB
- Platform: Tablets, Win2000, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther
- Start Menu 7
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Start Menu 7 was specifically designed to replace the often confusing menu in Windows 7 or old Windows. For your convenience, the interface has been developed with human psychology taken into account. Solve tasks in a simpler and quicker way. Start Menu 7 offers many new features not available in the system Start menu. If you have many programs, they will all fit onto the screen because you will be able to stretch the Start menu and resize it any way you like. Start searching the Internet or your local computer right from the Start menu with just one keystroke. Easy-to-use zooming allows those with large monitors and people with poor eyesight to work with comfort.
- Publisher: OrdinarySoft
- Date: 23-06-2011
- Size: 9749 KB
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, Windows Server, Windows Vista, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Super Win Menu
- License: Shareware
- Price: 20.00

With the start menu 'Super Win Menu' for Microsoft Windows™ regularly used applications and documents can be opened and started fast and directly. The current used working environment is available immediately. No tiresome clicking through different folder levels is needed in order to start a requested program or to open a recently used document. The start menu Super Win Menu shows the content of your PC at a glance. By positioning the mouse pointer over the program icon in the screen corner the start menu of Super Win Menu shows up. The clear structure of "Programs running", "Most used", "Last used" and "Recent documents" allows to start immediately the requested application or to open a document by a single mouse click.
- Publisher: Infonautics GmbH
- Date: 17-07-2012
- Size: 6830 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Windows Start Orb ViOrb
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Have you ever thought that your start menu button could do with a change? We use our computer daily and we are looking at the same boring old start menu button every day. Why not change and adding smooth fading effects to it with our windows start Menu button? Enhance your boring and dull start menu button with ViOrb. With ViOrb it is now possible to customize your start menu button without damaging or changing your system permanently. It also comes with smooth blending effects for each state the start menu button is in, ViOrb blends smoothly between each state of the start menu button. It doesnt stop there either with thousands of skins available you wont ever get bored.
- Publisher: Lee-Soft.com
- Date: 11-10-2012
- Size: 209 KB
- Platform: WinOther



















