WINDOWS 8 START MENU REPLACE WINDOWS 10

Recommend it for now until hopefully, MS starts to understand that shifting paradigm by pursueing only the younger generation, is statistically unsupported, since the average age for a user of the internet is getting older and the life expectancy as well, so by and large, there are more people who like to work using ordered menus, and ordered folders, with rigid structure, and not chasing some abstract notion of 'freedom' of user experience which is inefficient for productivity. I also tried out using a regedit tweak where i instigated a DWORD value '1' for Start_ShowClassicMenu, in explorer of the local_user - didn't work at all. I tried StartX, and someting thats called 'reviver 2', The only thing it's missing for now is the ability to group apps together. It is free, it lets me position the start menu to the side (like I used to have with win 10 menu), and let me pin apps to start. My 2 cents: I've been using a GIT project called 'explorer patcher', since Q3 of 2021.

The closest thing that I've found to replicate the Windows 10 Start menu (as a one-click app launcher) is WinLaunch, but that one doesn't have as much layout flexibility as the Win8.1/10 Start menu did. Just throwing icons on the desktop is not really my thing, because then I have to deal with minimizing all open windows to access it. They can't be freely placed, either, they are arranged in rows sort of like iOS. On Windows 11, I think you can only pin 18 items before having to scroll through them. The most common stuff I have pinned to the taskbar, but the Start menu has easily 80+ apps available at a glance. So, opening an app is just Windows key + click, even faster than typing in the search bar. Other than customizing the menu, it is very easy to open the menu. By just dragging and dropping the files and folder you can adjust the menu. The user can simply customize the quick menu with the apps and folder they want.

It's laid out in a way that makes sense to me and I know where everything is. MaxLauncher (Free) MaxLauncher is one of the best Windows start menu replacements.

Since Windows 8, I've adopted an approach of pinning basically everything that I could need to the start menu. Not because of Live Tiles, that was a nifty feature but I never saw it used in a way that was 'useful' other than maybe the weather app tile. I for one will miss the Windows 10 Start menu.

WINDOWS 8 START MENU REPLACE WINDOWS 10

Windows 8 start menu replace