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Start8 for Windows® 8 - Bringing back the Windows Start menu. Restore Your Start Button on Windows 8 - Free and Easy to Use Tool. Bend Windows 8 to your will with these free tools. Suggesting that reviews of Windows 8 have been mixed is a bit of an understatement, but you don’t have to take my word for it; Microsoft's bold new operating system is available right now, and if you spend some time with it I wager there are elements of the operating system that you absolutely love (the speed!) And parts you might love to tie a rock to and fling into the nearest large body of water (the Start Screen!)
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Welcome to Classic Shell. Easily revive the Classic Start Menu hidden within Windows 8. Yes, you can indeed resuscitate the Classic Start Menu in Windows 8. Greg Shultz shows you how it is done. Lots of people have asked me whether I think Microsoft will put the Start Menu back in Windows 8 before the final release. Of course, I'd like to believe that Microsoft would come to their senses and say that it was all a mistake to remove the Start Menu, but I don't think that's very likely. In fact, not only is the Start Button gone from the Desktop, but when you click in the place where it used to exist, you get the Metro Start screen. Windows 8 is designed with Metro as the starting point, and we'll just have to get used to it -- or will we?
Fortunately, I have discovered an Achilles' heel in Microsoft's evil plan to do away with the Start Menu. They may have been able to remove the GUI part of the Start Button/Menu, but they can't remove the underlying structure of it without crippling the operating system's backward-compatibility support for pre-Windows 8 applications. Figure A.