Return of the Start Button

For the purposes of dealing with help requests, I installed, in turn, all the known third party Start menus. Finally I decided to abandon them and try a bit harder with the modern screen. I have customised it as far as the number of commonly used icons, are concerned, and have discovered that this works a little better in the latest builds of (win 8.1?). Itwill make no difference to me, therefore, whether the legacy start reappears or not. I am comfortable with my new methods.

 

For the 6 plus months I've been using windows 8 Pro, I've been using the start menu and quite like it. Then I was gifted Stardocks, Start8 and Mordernmix software and have been using that for almost a month. Start8 puts the start button back but also allows the right click in bottom left corner for quick access to that menu context. The Mordernmix software allows me to open as many apps I want in a window at the same time...cool feature...but still allows me to use the mouse as a touch device in the start menu in each window. I use these two pieces of software in conjunction with the start menu so I have the best of both worlds...it works for me. So either way, with or with out the start button I'm good.

 

The very latest (lol) rumour on the start button

http://arstechnica.com/information-...snt-coming-back-but-there-will-be-a-tutorial/

 

I would definitely welcome the return of the Start Orb or the Start button. Few days back, many news portals announced that Window 8 is actually hindering the sales of PCs instead of reviving them. Perhaps a lot of people are associating the lack of the Start Orb with the complexity and user unfriendlyness of Windows 8.

 

Start button? What's a start button?

Actually I have been using Windows 8 ever since beta and haven't noticed the lack of a start button. Yes, I did look around a bit to find out how to get things done but that's expected for anything new.

So, no problem. No start button, no problem.

 

I actually like how it is now, I'm use to it. But what I would like to see though is that when a user doesn't have a password and they lock it, and I wanted to go on my account, I have to sign them out and then login to mine. It's frustrating!

 

I think that it is a lot more quicker with out it. I don't think that it is needed.

 

I've become somewhat accustomed to the Metro interface by now but I don't think I'd ever reach the same level of familiarity as what I have with the Start Button. For this reason alone I'd happily welcome it back, as I do think I would get things done slightly quicker with it there.

 

I'd use it without a doubt, use to make it easier to shut down and quite frankly I love a bit of nostalgia.

 

The worst thing is shutting down part. Moving the mouse to corner to make it appear, go to settings, and select shutdown? Is it just me that finds it incredibly annoying? Why fix if it ain't broke, Microsoft? This is my laptop, I'm not using some giant a$$ tablet for godssakes. This interface would look gorgeous on tablets/touchscreen devices, but I still find it annoying on my laptop.

It's something I've been accustomed to for ages, and now for some bizarre reason they decide to change the template? Goodness me.

 

Although I've heard reports about the orb's return in the next update, I'm not really that ecstatic for it. I agree, it's a nice option to have since majority of the users think that its more convenient, but I rather stick with the metro interface because I find it to be cleaner, and my eyes like what it sees. Honestly, I'm more excited about the confirmed new snapping options.

 

You can add virtually anything that you can invoke with command line arguments to the context menu if you want. You should see my context menu, it's the most powerful tool I have for managing files and various tasks on my system.

 

Thanks. I executed the reg file, is there something else I have to do? Does it require a restart or something?

By the way, even if it works, I still can't fathom why MS would do such a thing. It's still an annoyance and I'm not the first one to say this.

PS: Okay scratch that, it works. Much better now, thanks

 

Does anything show up in your right click menu when clicking on the desktop? It's just a modification to the desktop context menu, it's not going to give you the full start menu again.