Only thing holding me back from using StartIsBack is the fact that it always boots up in classic desktop mode. If it had the option to boot between Metro & Classic Desktop I would most defenatly use it. It's a great program other than that.
Oh wow, I will most defenatly have to check this out now, I know on the web site it always said it will boot to the classic desktop always and the original SIB when it came out was like that with no option to change it. That was the only thing holding me back from using it, but now it's defenatly worth a try. Thanks for the heads up on that guys.
Thank you very much OP, gonna upgrade to Windows 8 just for this. Seriously, i am. Previously when trying to go into chrome from bf3 to check something out, i would press the windows key by instinct and i was stuck.. Either way this should do the trick
Startisback is a big reason a lot of people (Such as myself) uses Windows 8. I love the feeling of just having both the Start Orb and The Metro start menu at the press of the Windows key; all thanks to S1ave77
I have not yet installed Windows 8 Pro,so I have only used Windows 8 RP and the other Beta version.which have now expired. My favorite start menu software is Classic Shell because I like the Windows XP start menu. But when Windows 8 CP first came out that did not work until they updated that so I had to user Start Menu 7 which was all right. Then Classic Shell did work on Windows 8 CP and then on RP,and they say it also works on Windows 8 Pro. What I am trying to say is that I cannot use Windows 8 with only the Metro theme so I need the Windows 7 or Windows XP start menu.As most Windows users do. I also used Ribbon Disabler which gives you the Windows 7 Windows Explorer without the Ribbon on Windows 8. Is this new software much like Classic Shell?
Nice tool! Is it possible to port Windows Vista explorer to Windows 8 so that there will be an option for selecting between new start menu and classic start menu? Some users prefer classic start menu than new start menu.
I have got Windows Vista as well as Windows 7. Windows Explorer in Vista is slightly different from Windows 7. I like the green program folders that are not in Windows 7 or 8 by default. But you can still change the folders to the green Vista ones,by changing the icons.Go to shell32.dill and find them there, through I could not find any Windows XP folder icons.
startisback gives you the startmenu from windows 7 and a few options to avoid metro if you dont want it
My friend tried this one out, the first restart failed. But after trying 3x it finally worked. Just uninstall and install if a problem occurs then resolved
Hi, everyone. I have a question. I want to get the Win7 start menu back and get rid of Metro as much as I can, and I was about to go ahead and install Ex7forW8, but then I read in the OP, 'Better stuff: startisback.com'. I've read FAQ for StartIsBack but I'm very concerned about one issue. I've been having a massive problem with windows 8: please see this thread if you will: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/my-windows-8-is-randomly-logging-off-on-its-own/41ef5201-608e-4d8e-89c6-abb270013c00. I'm the OP in that thread. The problem seems to be about RAM usage and app 'management' in relation to RAM in Windows 8. I'm an extremely heavy user, in the browser and elsewhere, and yes, even with 16GB of RAM in my windows 8 maxxed out retina macbook pro, I'm STILL having issues with memory. (sigh.) When I get REALLY heavy with things left open and running, once every few weeks or so, Windows 8 simply gives up and logs off the session in front of my eyes, as described in great detail in the thread I've linked you too. ADDITIONALLY - now I don't know whether this is Chrome's fault or not - but Chrome has been also doing a very similar thing since got Win8, and it never used to do it on Win7. I am only up to like 74-80% of ram usage (by 'only' I mean, not full and to the limits so things should crash on me!), and VERY often Chrome is simply crashing requiring it to restart, and it's happening VERY to me. Yes, I have 240 tabs in Chrome at the moment. But in Windows 7, doing all this was fine, it didn't close off programs or log you off the session abruptly, Windows just slowed down, and massively so, if I reached the limits of my RAM and/or CPU. I was FINE with this, I dealt with it. And I'd rather this and be left alone to deal with it manually as a windows power user. myself. And I've been developing a theory that it all might be Win8's explorer.exe that is the cause of this. Changes they made with the Metro decisions that makes it more tablet-y, more 'dumb', and a kind of memory management style that might work on tablets, where you're not getting anything truly important done, but simply doesn't work for intensive workstation desktop use, where you have dozens of apps open at once, photoshop, ftp programs, torrent clients, an epic chrome session, 10 word files, 3 PDFs, and a Partidge in a boing boing rss feed TREE. And In fact, I was wondering if any of you has been having this same behavior as well! Maybe what I should do, is just try Ex7forW8 (after reading a bit of the thread first to get some context of what its current status is), load up my session with all my crazy programs and files open, and see if the memory issues go away. And then report back. I'm in the position to try. And then, if my suspicions are right and the problem goes away, maybe I'll then try the best alternative that avoids the issues that come with Ex7forW8. and see whether that brings BACK my RAM woes, or not. Thanks and I hope someone might be able to help me out with this question I have, about any stupid decisions Microsoft may have made in the behavior of explorer.exe OUTSIDE of just the metro start screen. I think there exists metro-level 'resources management' too, tbh!
I know I'm resurrecting an old thread but why do I have to use Ex7ForW8 for DWM hack to work? Win8 RP have Metro and DWM transparency. Why I can't use StartIsBack and RP DWM files?