Comments on: ViStart: Free Windows Vista and Windows 7 Start Menu Clone for Windows XP

By: VG

VG — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:17:27 +0000

^^ Its not a virus. You can ignore that message, its a false positive.

By: Yashraj Talan

Yashraj Talan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:05:55 +0000

The Link contained Malware! Yes...For My case, Avira Just Detected it...I Opened the link and clicked on the download button. I was using Opera and in Opera whenever we download something a Downloads tab opens up showing the status of the downloads. I clicked on the tab and found its filesize to be 589KB! I became sure somethings fishy...Please help...

By: Zorba

Zorba — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:43:49 +0000

Search function does not work right. I have a jpg image with the name Halloween.jpg. When I did a search for it with hallow, nothing showed up. Re-booted and ran the XP search. Several instances of the file showed up. Ran the vistart program and tried it again, only one showed up.
But I do like the format and the way the search function copies the Mac OS search capability, but it needs to be improved to work right.
Thanks for supplying a free version of this program. Very generous of you.
Zorba

By: Monkey Jr

Monkey Jr — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:22:55 +0000

I really like this program integrates well with the Spanish language, but I think they should make it work right click with the contextual menu and offers the following:
open
Run as:
Pin to Start menu:
Scan with antivirus X
Remove from List
Rename
Send to:
properties

We also have the options of using small and large icons of the programs and that when installing, do not remove the icons that are already established originally ...

Thank you for allowing my suggestions in this regard ....

Greetings LeeSoft Team

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:53:29 +0000

Looks nice, I would like it better if it had drag&drop support

By: wildgoosespeeder

wildgoosespeeder — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:00:47 +0000

Interesting tool but there seems to be some bugs with it and some things I don't like about it.

1. It doesn't take on the theme and icons currently in use (I'm currently using the Windows Classic look with Windows XP default icons). It forces the Aero theme and Windows Vista icons on the taskbar and start menu only.
2. I have over 100 folders of installations and for whatever reason, not all folder icons show up in the list. The programs are there but the icons don't show. It stops midway through.
3. I got an unexplained registry error.
4. It would be great if there was a Control Panel entry for the settings dialog. There is a hide option for the system tray icon with this program and I fear I can't restore it just as easy if it is hidden. At least with AquaSnap (Nurgo Software alternative to the AeroSnap feature of Windows 7 for Windows XP and Windows Vista that was featured on this site) there was a separate configuration shortcut in the start menu.
5. This utility is not portable. It tries to install adware and the main program in "C:\Program Files\ViStart". Annoyingly the adware tried to trick me into accepting but uncheck everything and press the decline button!

By: VG

VG — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:32:32 +0000

^^ Did you try to restart your PC? Also try to exit from the program and re-launch it.

By: nipunb

nipunb — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:31:26 +0000

it just worked for few minutes but after that my start menu was reverted back to normal XP menu, but the Orb was still there.... here's a screenshot of my start menu:
i52.tinypic.com/2ry1wmg.jpg

By: NSDCars5

NSDCars5 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:00:23 +0000

@jj Duh! That's what the program is for! Giving you a Windows 7 Start Menu!

By: jj

jj — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:03:39 +0000

can i get a 7 start menu-i like transparency