Software Listing: Windows 8 Start Menu Replacement
- Perpetuum UI Controls for Windows 8
- License: Shareware
- Price: 99

Perpetuum UI Controls for Windows 8 a set of XAML UI components that will help you create Windows Store apps. The package includes 10 WinRT controls that conveniently extend standard WinRT features. They are: radial menu, plain menu, date and time picker, calendar, rating and flyout controls, color picker, text box and numeric box, expander. Radial Menu Control. Make complicated hierarchical menus be simple and compact! Radial menu is a quite logical and easy-to-use application component that novices and experts will really love. Calendar. The calendar control is used to select and navigate through dates.
- Publisher: Perpetuum Software
- Date: 15-12-2012
- Size: 387 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Clock World Tile for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Clock World Tile for Windows 8 adds a new live tile to your Start Screen and it displays the accurate time, as well as the current date.
Users can customize not only the background color of the tile, but also the text color to make them easily noticeable.
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- Publisher: Carmina Bernabeu Hernandez
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Twitter for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Twitter for Windows 8 allows users to manage their account and send message right within their Start Screen, without needing to launch a browser.
One can not only write tweets or retweet other messages, but they can also explore the accounts they are currently following or access a linked story within the same window.
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- Publisher: Twitter
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- RetroUI Pro 64bit
- 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 EnforceOao. 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:
- Size: 7075 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- LIVE Tile Clock Infinity for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

LIVE Tile Clock Infinity is a Windows 8 application designed to customize your Start Screen with an analog or digital clock. The application allows you to create the layout of the clock by using various themes, fonts and brushes in order to suit the background image.
You can also use the brushes to draw your own model and choose between the digital or analog format before building the tile.
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- Publisher: Axilesoft
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Digital Live Tile Clock for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Digital Live Tile Clock for Windows 8 is a practical tool for creating a digital clock that can be displayed on your Start Screen. The app lets you change the clock format, color, font type and other settings in order to create a personalized tile.
It supports glass effects and can change the contrast between the font and the background in order to enhance the visibility.
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- Publisher: gishtaki
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- RetroUI Pro 32bit
- 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:
- Size: 6758 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Numerical Lite for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Numerical Lite is a collection of tools for the Windows 8 users who want to perform unit conversions and calculations from the Start screen. It includes both scientific and basic calculators that display the history of the operations on the main window.
The unit converter includes more than ten categories and one hundred possible conversions. You just need to enter the value and select the measurement unit in order to view all the available conversions.
Note: In order to remove the ads from the interface you can purchase the full version.
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- Publisher: Pearl Apps LLC
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- News BENTO for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

News BENTO for Windows 8 is a visually appealing application that can be of great use to all those who like to start their day reading online news.
RSS sources can be organized into dedicated categories and users can easily choose which online articles they want to read.
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- Publisher: Hubrious
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Breezy for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Breezy for Windows 8 adds a new live tile to your Start Screen and it constantly displays the weather conditions in your area.
It uses the location you specified for your computer, and it displays the current temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius units.
Breezy for Windows 8 also comes with a 5-day weather forecast.
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- Publisher: Sertac Ozercan
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Elements Weather Forecast for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

Elements Weather Forecast is a Windows 8 app that allows you to view the weather forecast for multiple cities. The application allows you to create a list of cities and to retrieve the forecast data for an entire week.
You can view the temperature, the wind direction, the sunrise moments and other useful information with just one click. The app can also pin a certain city on the Start menu and display the information on a live tile.
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- Publisher: Jujuba Software
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8
- Start8
- License: Shareware

Windows 8 is now available (in preview and release editions) and has taken the Windows interface to a whole new level. Unfortunately, Windows 8 did not come with a desktop feature that the world makes use of billions times a day, the "Start" menu. Luckily, we have a solution!
Features
Windows 7 style Start menu with Windows 8 enhancements
Users can search for Windows 8-style (Metro) apps with it
Users can pin desktop and Metro apps
Full support for Jump Lists
Unified Search
Users can boot directly to the Windows 8 desktop
Fast access to shut down, devices, music, documents, videos
Automatically matches color to the color of the taskbar
Start button is now skinnable
Optionally disable the desktop "hot spots"
Supports WindowFX 5.
- Publisher: Stardock Systems
- Date:
- Size: 2150 KB
- Platform: Windows 8
- Taskbar Classic Start Menu
- License: Shareware

Taskbar Classic Start Menu adds to the system notification area an icon. By clicking this icon, you can bring up a popup menu, which is similar to the Start Menu in Windows 2000 and Me. The program is designed for users who want to launch their programs using classic Start Menu, which in Windows 7 is missing. This menu can automatically hide unused items (in the same manner as Windows 2000 and Me Start Menu did), show only the common or only the personal items, or they both together (separately or merged), or display a number of items with the user-specified second additional icon. It is possible to separately specify the size of icons, both for top-level items and sub-folders, to choose to display in multiple columns of a given height or one, with or without separators.
- Publisher: Vladimir Belyaev
- Date:
- Size: 10004 KB
- Platform: Win7 x32, Win7 x64, WinOther, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Start Menu Manager
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Start Menu Manager Start Menu Organizer. Start Menu Manager is a simple, smart and reliable tool that can organize the Windows start menu. Start Menu Manager 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. Start Menu Manager Categorizes the items in the start menu according to a template file which can be easily modified to fit your needs. Key Feature: 1. Keep your windows start menu organized. 2. Categorizes the items in the start menu. 3. Support undo/redo..
- Publisher: app-zilla.com
- Date:
- Size: 307 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- Start Menu Fast
- License: Shareware
- Price: 15

Start Menu Fast is utility which helps you find your programs in the Windows Start Menu faster. Do you have many programs in your START menu? Do you have situations where you know the name of the program, but cannot find the program in your large START menu? If you can say YES, then you should try "Start Menu Fast" application..
- Publisher: KutinSoft.com
- Date: 07-12-2006
- Size: 875 KB
- Platform: Win2000, Windows Server, WinOther
- Handy Start Menu
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

The standard Windows Start menu is far from ideal. Too often users find themselves taking too long to look for an application they want to start. This happens because the Start menu often has a very long list of programs that are installed on the system. So, it takes quite some time to find the application you want to run. The Handy Start Menu program allows you to get rid of this problem by grouping Start menu applications into categories according to their purpose. Because applications are sorted automatically, the user is not required to do anything in most situations. There is also another inconvenience in using the standard Start menu.
- Publisher: ChemTable Software
- Date: 05-09-2012
- Size: 7190 KB
- Platform: Windows Vista, WinVista, WinVista x64
- Winstep Start Menu Organizer PRO
- License: Shareware
- Price: 19.95

Winstep Start Menu Organizer is a freeware program designed to rapidly help you clean and organize your Microsoft Windows Start Menu. Over time, as more and more applications get installed, the Start Menu can get so cluttered that you end up spending a lot of time simply trying to find the program you want to run. When this happens, it's time to organize the Start Menu. The shortcuts and folders displayed in your All Programs menu are actually stored in two separate folders in your hard drive: one set specific to the current logged in user and another common to all users. This means you could use nothing but Explorer to reorganize the contents of your All Programs menu, but then you would have to know the location of both folders on your system - which is different in basically every version of Windows - and you would have to be...
- Publisher: Winstep Software Technologies
- Date: 21-07-2012
- Size: 2867 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Winstep Start Menu Organizer
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Winstep Start Menu Organizer is a freeware program designed to rapidly help you clean and organize your Microsoft Windows Start Menu. Over time, as more and more applications get installed, the Start Menu can get so cluttered that you end up spending a lot of time simply trying to find the program you want to run. When this happens, it's time to organize the Start Menu. The shortcuts and folders displayed in your All Programs menu are actually stored in two separate folders in your hard drive: one set specific to the current logged in user and another common to all users. This means you could use nothing but Explorer to reorganize the contents of your All Programs menu, but then you would have to know the location of both folders on your system - which is different in basically every version of Windows - and you would have to be...
- Publisher: Winstep Software Technologies
- Date: 09-11-2012
- Size: 2867 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- Windows 8 Theme RC1_xbuild7.0.1
- License: Freeware
- Price: 0.00

Windows 8 provides lots of new features along with a newly designed interface. It looks very similar to Windows Vista but there are many GUI changes like redesigned taskbar, Explorer, new boot screen and login screen, etc. If you are still using Windows Vista but want to enjoy the new Windows 8 look, then this tutorial will definitely help you. After following this tutorial, you'll get the same Windows 8 look in your Windows Vista. Following is a list of things which are going to be changed after following this tutorial: * Windows Theme or Visual Style * Login Screen or Welcome Screen * Taskbar * Taskbar clock, System try icon & Quick Launch * Wallpapers * About Windows Box * System Properties * Extra.
- Publisher: Muffler Senpai
- Date: 22-05-2012
- Size: 1024 KB
- Platform: WinOther
- VEVO for Windows 8
- License: Shareware

VEVO for Windows 8 is a dedicated application that comes in handy to all those who like to listen to their favorite bands and albums.
Users simply need to enter their username and password, then start exploring new music videos and shows.
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- Publisher: VEVO LLC
- Date:
- Platform: Windows 8














