Nice!! thanks!! Microsoft must be furious that it is putting so much effort and work to make the new OS "different" and then we have these "fixes" to bring it back to a productive/usable OS I just love this!! thanks for the post!
Thanks, i will try it, however i think windows is trying something new with a different look and feel.... windows 8 and xbox connect together will work well, with this kind of start page
If you mean classicshell then you need the latest version which added Windows 8 CP support. It won't look like the Windows 7 start menu since it's not supposed to, but it is skinnable so who knows what will come in the future. @ mictlan That actually looks pretty good
I also tried the new win8-compatible classicshell version and it's fantastic - quick search works across all programs, apps and files, programs are pinnable... everything works as it's supposed to. Definitely the best CSM implementation yet, beats ViStart and Start8 by light years. The only thing missing now would be the ability to bypass the metro monstrosity at system start (or get rid of that f**ker completely) and Win8 would actually become useable again.
This version it was not there, so I didn't try it...but, never the less, I won't install Crappy8 on my PC again. IF microsoft remains with Crappy8, then I'll stick with Win7 forever.
Unless this program brings to the table "right click to 'pin to start MENU' ", it is still completely useless. If i cannot simply right-click and pin to start menu for any item I wish, everything anyone does 3rd party is a complete fail.
You can pin to start menu with the context menu, but you can drag from everywhere directly to start orb, then put it in every column of the classic shell start menu
From that discussion thread below that article on tom's hardware, this has to be the best description of Win8 & Metro EVER, hands down: "It's like going to a restaurant and ordering an apple pie. You can see them making the apple pie and it looks delicious. The apples are fresh, the filling is sweet, the crust is flaky and delicious.. then right before they serve it to you, they have an elephant take a nice big dump on it." Hell, I'm gonna make this my new sig.
Bypassing the Metro screen at startup is not possible because Microsoft put a licensing check in place to prevent it. But you can place a shortcut to the "Show Desktop" command (explorer.exe shell:::{3080F90D-D7AD-11D9-BD98-0000947B0257}) in the Startup folder to automatically show the desktop after a while once it boots. Sorting items in the main recently used program list wasn't possible in the Windows 7 menu either, it's possible in subfolders. For "pinning" in Classic Shell's Start Menu you can just drag an item to the top from the MRU list and it will be "pinned". Delete or Shift+Delete it to well, "unpin" it.