Third-party substitution of the lost Windows 8 Start menu (I’m sorry, the Modern/Metro UI is not a begin menu) has become very the flourishing cottage industry. Stardock’s Start8, a $ 5 alternative, has been the many seamless substitution for many months, yet it’s today going to need to share which honor with Iobit’s Start Menu 8. And, unluckily for Stardock, Start Menu 8 is free.

Start Menu 8 looks plus functions like a native application.

Start Menu 8 installs conveniently, mimics the Windows 7 Start menu to a tee—including the look field—and is only because configurable because which that it seeks to duplicate. You are able to show or conceal the products including administrative tools, control panel, documents, network, pictures, etc., and disable the hot corners as well as the Windows 8 sidebar. You are able to equally change the appearance of the begin switch to match Windows 8, XP, Windows 7, etc., though the menu itself retains the appearance of Windows 8. You will equally conveniently reach the Modern UI (formerly termed as Metro) interface whenever you need to explore it at a leisure.

The Start Menu 8 installation routine may ask we if you would like to install Iobit’s Advanced SystemCare 6 software (the standard is yes), nevertheless there’s no advertising apart from which.

To create a lengthy review short: Start Menu 8 functions merely like the Start Menu we desired to find whenever we initially got a Windows 8 PC. Do oneself plus anybody else we recognize who’s been saddled with a new interface they didn’t wish a favor: Download Start Menu 8; install it; leave the Windows 8 understanding curve plus inefficiency behind; plus receive about with the lives.

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