All Programs, Control Panel, Documents, a Shut Down menu—they’re all there. If you right-click the Pokki Start button and choose Settings, you’ll see a Boot to desktop option.

Windows Blue could restore the Start button, boot straight to the desktop "Windows 8.1" may let you pretend that the Start screen never happened.

The latest in a lineup of Start menu replacements for Windows 8, Pokki is a free, fluid tool for users who crave more than the new Start screen.

These are questions that I wasn't going to cover, but it seems I'm not going to get any peace until I do, so here you are. It there a trick/registry tweak/switch* (delete as appropriate) to bring back ...

There are a handful of ways you can restore the Start menu in Windows 8, provided you're willing to install a third-party program.

Windows 8 aptly accommodates these alternative launch methods. However, if you would still like to restore the old Start button on your Windows 8 computer, you can do so by installing the third-party ...

Restore the Start Menu and disable Metro UI in Windows 8 Once you do this, Windows 8 starts to look and feel a lot like Windows 7.

The two most disliked aspects of Windows 8 – the lack of a Start button and inability to boot to desktop – may finally be addressed in Windows 8.1, aka “Windows Blue,” an update to the ...

You can backup and restore pinned Start Menu items for the current user and a particular user on Windows 11/10 computer by following this tutorial.

Start Orb Mover will let you move or re-locate your Start Button and Start Menu to any location on your Windows 7 Taskbar.

Microsoft’s decision to restore a traditional Start menu — an iconic user interface (UI) element in Windows that harks back to Windows 95 almost 19 years ago — was in some ways not surprising.