![]() Wikis Immerse yourself in game lore, tutorials, and more. Metaverse See how you rank against other players in your favorite games. Community Stay up-to-date with game news and dev journals. All Games Check out our complete catalog of award-winning games. Ashes of the Singularity Massive-scale warfare in an epic RTS. The Political Machine 2020 Win the hearts and minds of America's voters. Star Control The space action/adventure classic returns. Sins of a Solar Empire II Real-time strategy. Games Galactic Civilizations Discover new adventures and rule the galaxy your way in this 4X sandbox game. Corporate Software Solutions Increase productivity, design intelligent controls and reinforce branding with our enterprise products. ![]() View All Software Products Discover our productivity and customization tools. WindowBlinds 11 Customize the look and feel of your taskbar, window frames, and more. Curtains Easily create and add additional style modes to Windows 10. CursorFX Customize your Windows cursor and create your own. Groupy 2 Organize multiple applications into grouped tabs on your Windows desktop. Multiplicity Connect multiple PCs with one keyboard and mouse. DeskScapes Personalize your desktop background with animated pictures and video. Fences 4 Automatically organize your desktop apps, files, and folders on Windows 10 and 11. Start11 Customize the Start Menu and Taskbar in Windows 10/11. Update 2: IOBit has released a first beta version of StartMenu8 2.0 which introduces several new features, including improved support for Windows 8 and the search module, options to deactivate the hot corner and sidebar function, user customization features and the fixing of general Navigation Software Object Desktop Your complete Windows customization suite. Update: It appears that you can open the start page by holding down the Windows key for a longer period of time. The program can become a viable alternative for Start8, provided that IObit manages to add Windows Store Apps to the start menu and search. That's not an issue if you do not work with the startpage at all though. To open the startpage with StartMenu8 installed, you need to open the Charms Bar instead (Windows-C) and select Start to do that. While you can right-click the start menu orb to change that, I'd have preferred to see a link to the start page on the start menu just like Start8 does. A direct link to the Metro startpage is not provided so that you can't use the start menu or the Windows key to open it by default. Only desktop apps and files can be searched now using the program. Modern Store Apps are not included in the start menu or the search results yet even though it is listed as a feature on the program page. You find the programs on the left, a search, shut down button and links on the right to core locations of the system. The start menu looks nearly identical to the start menu of the Windows 7 operating system. It is not clear right now if the program will remain free when the final version is released or if it will be turned into a commercial program just like Start8. For now, you can freely download the program from the program website to add the start menu back to Windows 8. The license type freeware indicates that it is likely that it will remain free. IObit StartMenu8 is another alternative that has been released as a beta version recently. ![]() The alternative Classic Shell is not a bad program either, but it currently does not include Windows Store Apps in search. Start8, my favorite application, will be available for $4.99, and I'm seriously considering paying the money for it to get a start menu back in Windows 8. ![]()
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