5 Best Start Button Softwares for Windows 8 2023

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Till now most of you out there must have shifted from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and many out of you guys including me must have now been just fed up with the Windows 8 start menu.

I was actually fed up with that thing a long time before but did not know that there was a way out and that to a pretty easy one.

You can change your complete start menu just by installing an App/Software, which will then revert you back to the same old windows style which everyone is used to.

The best part is that you can actually customize each and everything and design your own custom start menu which only your computer has.

So here is some awesome software that you may prefer installing in order to change your windows start button and start menu.

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This app takes you back to the same windows 7 style UI for your start menu, the app lets you easily launch all the metro apps straight from the desktop, however it lacks the feature of pinning up the metro apps.

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Another decent app that will take you to the same old Windows 7 style UI. But has a lot more on offer here with all its customizability and bright colors. You will definitely love it if you are windows, 8 lovers.

1. Classic Shell

One of the best software, I personally love it and I have used it for the past 3 months now and can still explore new things when I get into the setting panel of this software.

The software easily allows you to pin Windows 8 apps that were accessible to you previously. It also offers you customization for almost every aspect of the menu.

Using this you also have an option to set up the explorer and Internet Explorer 9 to suit you better.

Classic Shell

2. Start Menu 8

This app takes you back to the same windows 7 style UI for your start menu, the app lets you easily launch all the metro apps straight from the desktop, however it lacks the feature of pinning up the metro apps.

But it seamlessly speeds up the launching time of the apps. The software is highly customizable, it also offers you hundreds of skins and starts buttons to choose from.

Start Menu 8

3. Pokki

Well unlike all others this app is not even an inch similar to any old start menu type. Rather it’s a completely redesigned and refreshed design of a windows start menu.

However, I must inform you that this app is a bit large and may slow down the performance a bit, but trust me you won’t mind compromising that thing, for the host of other features that it offers, you will just love playing around with this app.

Pokki - Start Button Softwares

4. Start Menu Reviver

Well according to me this app is not that useful for you if you are a kind of a person who completely hates the retro menu of Windows 8.

Because this app will just tweak the stock Windows 8 menu a bit but will make it look even more attractive and will also add a lot of functionality to it.

Start Menu Reviver - Start Button Softwares

5. ViStart

Another decent app that will take you to the same old Windows 7 style UI. But has a lot more on offer here with all its customizability and bright colors.

You will definitely love it if you are windows, 8 lovers.

This also allows you to pin up all your metro apps in the start menu.

ViStart - Start Button Softwares

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