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RECOMMENDED:By now you might have discovered that the Start screen is the Start menu in Windows 8/8.1. In simple words, Microsoft has dropped Start menu from Windows 8 and introduced Start screen as replacement. The Start screen displays all information you care about in one place. The live tiles on the Start screen update in real-time to display latest info.You can launch programs, open files & folders, search within apps, pin your favorite files and folders to the Start screen, organize programs in groups and name them, and more.While the new Start screen is more powerful than the Start menu, not every user likes it. Users who can’t live without the Start menu in can easily back the Start menu with a few mouse clicks. Quite a few free and paid programs are available to enable Start menu in Windows 8.
RECOMMENDED:Microsoft’s decision to drop the Start menu from its Windows 8 operating system hasn’t gone well with Windows users. The new Start screen has received mixed to negative reactions. While the Start menu replacement works great on both traditional PCs and notebooks, it works simply perfect on touch devices.People who’re using Windows 8 on a touch device mightn’t feel the need of a Start menu. And users who can’t live without a Start menu have a number of free and paid programs to choose from. Stardock (paid), and help you get back the missing Start menu in the newest version of Windows.Unfortunately, these Start menu applications are compatible with only 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems. Users who are using a tablet, such as Microsoft Surface RT (see ), powered by Windows RT, a cut-down version of Windows 8 designed to power ARM-based processors, doesn’t support legacy desktop applications. In Windows RT, one can only install apps available in the official developed exclusively for Windows 8.
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Microsoft teases a classic Start Menu for Windows 8.1 with built-in Live Tiles. Coming to Windows 8.1 in a future update, it has the look of the Start Menu Windows users have experienced for years, but adds the Live Tiles Microsoft has been pushing as a part of Windows 8 and Windows Phone. Terry Myerson made the announcement as part of an example. Both the Start button and classic Start menu are gone in Windows 8. If you don’t like the full-screen, Metro-style “Start screen,” there are a few ways to get a classic-style Start menu back. RELATED: Bring The Windows 7 Start Menu to Windows 10 with Classic Shell. Note: You can get the Windows 7 style Start Menu back on Windows 10 easily.
The good news is that Windows RT users can now enable the Start menu as well. Windows enthusiasts over at the XDA Developers forums have developed a free app named ClassicStartMenu, based on the popular Classic Shell, for Windows RT and can now be installed on Windows RT devices. The only catch is that you need to jailbreak your Windows RT device first with the help of RT Jailbreak tool (free) to be able to install this app.If you own a Windows RT tablet, you can now head over to to download and install the app. You might also like to to extract compressed files in Windows RT.Via.