When Microsoft first revealed that it would be taking out the Start Button and Start Menu in Windows 8 the response was loud. Either users wanted to hold onto the old and focus on using Desktop ...

Although the Windows 7 Start menu provides a host of useful features, it tends to take up a lot of screen space when opened. If you want a compact Start menu for your Windows 7 computer, your best bet ...

How to use the Shell command in Windows 11 to access the AppsFolder Your email has been sent Power users of Windows 11 may want to access their applications quicker by bypassing the Start Menu. The ...

Windows only: Start menu replacement utility Classic Shell adds back some of the missing features in Windows 7 or Vista that used to exist in XP—like the Classic-style Start Menu. During the ...

With Windows 10’s release imminent, Microsoft will soon be able to leave the debacle known as Windows 8 behind. As many of us know, one of the chief complaints about Windows 8 was the ill-fated ...

Long a mainstay of the old-fashioned Windows interface fan club, Classic Shell’s developer Ivo Beltchev has thrown in the towel, releasing the code to SourceForge Hundreds of millions of downloads ...

Are you taking the plunge on a new Windows 8 system? Although Microsoft has positioned the new OS to be all about apps, most users will want to run some “legacy” programs (quotations mine—how is ...