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Start Menu 7: A Transparent, Customizable, Easy-To-Navigate Start Menu

With every new release of the Windows operating system came along a lot of changes in its interface. One of the most important menus, the Windows Start Menu, has also gone through a lot of UI changes over the years. Even after all those changes, it is still a bit difficult to find the desired [...] (more…)

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Bypass Windows 8 Start Screen On Startup & Jump Directly To Desktop

Unlike previous versions of Windows where you are taken to desktop at system startup, Windows 8 welcomes you with Metro Start Screen, providing quick access to applications and system shortcuts, pinned programs, and so on. Apparently, Windows 8 doesn’t allow users to bring the classic Windows Startup behavior back. If you don’t want to click [...] (more…)

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BluePoison: Unlock Windows 8 Hidden Features And Change Default Theme

Back in May, we featured BluePoison to unlock some hidden features, utilities and UI related improvements of the leaked version of Windows 8. The application was primarily developed to replace Windows 7 like File Explorer with ribbon based Windows Explorer and to unlock PDF Reader, extended Windows Task Manager and Webcam in early builds of Windows [...] (more…)

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VBoxLaunch: Run VirtualBox Virtual Machines From Start Menu & Jumplist

If you’re an avid Oracle VirtualBox user, you will love VBoxLaunch. It is a small executable script for Windows 7 that you can use to launch virtual machines from Start Menu and Jumplist without having to launch VirtualBox first. The script is solely written to enhance VirtualBox’s usage experience. It doesn’t change any virtual machine related settings nor [...] (more…)

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Windows 8 Start Tweaker: Change Metro Start Screen Background & Color

Just a few days back, we covered Windows 8 UI interface hack to change the background of login screen, start screen and right side bar panels. The tweak involves changing the RGBA color code values of uxtheme.dll file in System32 folder via Hex editor. Although, Windows 8 UI tweaking requires extra effort along with complete [...] (more…)

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Increase Number Of App Tile Rows In Windows 8 Start Menu

Windows 8 has the ability to automatically adjust Start Menu tiles according to current resolution of display monitor; it keeps only 3 rows of app tiles in Start Menu with 800×600, 4 app tiles with 1280×720 and so on. This default behavior is however suitable for those who frequently move between displays monitors with different [...] (more…)

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How To Change Windows 8 Metro Start Menu Background Colors

The new metro UI based Windows 8 keeps green as primary background color for numerous user interface elements, ranging from Start Menu, Search, Share, and Setting pane, to User tiles and Login screen. If you’re into customizing Windows 8 new user interface elements, you might like to change the background color of Start Menu, right-side [...] (more…)

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Sync Windows 8 User Settings Between PCs & Tablets via Windows Live ID

Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 8 includes two options to log on; you can create local account or choose to sign in with Windows Live ID (email address). If you choose to sign in with your Windows Live ID, you are able to automatically synchronize your settings, such as, history, shortcuts, application settings, password [...] (more…)

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Disable Metro Features While Keeping Ribbon Explorer In Windows 8

First we covered a simple Registry hack to disable Metro and bring back the Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8. Then, we covered a small tool called Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle which allows users to quickly change the value in the registry to switch between new metro interface and old classic interface. The problem with [...] (more…)

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Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle – Enable / Disable Metro UI Start Screen

We covered a simply registry hack yesterday that disabled the new Windows 8 Start Menu (Metro UI Start Screen), Explorer Ribbon, and Task Manager. Going to Registry every time to enable back and disable Start Menu is both dangerous and a headache. Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle is a small 3rd party tool for Windows 8 [...] (more…)

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What’s New In Windows 8 Desktop, Start Search, And Start Menu [Review]

Although Windows 8 Developer Build includes features and tools necessary for third-party developers to develop and test new applications in order to address compatibility issues, it comes with a host of user interface elements and other improvements that will you will see in first stable version of Windows 8. Amongst all the UI related improvements, [...] (more…)

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Get Windows 7 Start Menu, Explorer And Task Manager In Windows 8

If you are one of the first users who grabbed the latest Windows 8 developer preview, you will find that a lot has changed since Windows 7. Among the visible changes are the Start Menu, Windows Explorer Ribbon, and Task Manager, all of which have been totally revamped by Microsoft. If you are a big [...] (more…)