Windows 8 Start Button

Discussion in 'Windows 8 Support' started by mike244, Sep 25, 2011.

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    mike244

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    I'm a new Windows 8 user and I'm trying to make the start button work the way that Windows 7 does, is that possible? When I click on the desktop tile, clicking the start button just returns me to the green tile screen again. I want to see the old start menu so I can launch things just by typing a few letters.

    Is there a way to get this back?
     
    mike244, Sep 25, 2011
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    Open regedit and go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. Change the value of RPEnabled to 2.
     
    Thrax, Sep 25, 2011
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    Isn.t that "change to 1" ?

    What I did,mike, if you have the space, is created two users. One with the mod and one without. Log in and log out takes a very few seconds. You can also go to Windows - System32, and rename shsxs.dll to something else (shsxs1.dll ?) which will do the same thing. Make a copy of the file somewhere else - just in case!

    But you should be able to double click on the button and launch the application
     
    davehc, Sep 26, 2011
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    Changing it to 2 will disable Metro but leave the new task manager and ribbon UI.
     
    Thrax, Sep 27, 2011
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