NOTE: If you are using Windows 8 Consumer Preview and the utility mentioned in this article doesn't work for you, check out following tutorial: How to Enable Start Button and Start Menu in Windows 8?
Windows 8 Developer Preview build doesn't come with old Windows Vista and 7 style Start menu. Microsoft has replaced Start menu with new Start Screen in Windows 8.
We shared a small registry hack to enable the classic start menu and disable new Start screen in following tutorial:
If you don't want to edit the Windows registry manually, here in this topic we are going to share a free and very small utility which will allow you to toggle between new Start screen and old Start menu quickly and easily.
"Windows 8 Start Menu Toggle" is a free and portable tool created by our friend "Solo-Dev" @ DA. This free utility allows you to switch between classic start menu and new Start screen by just a single click on a big button.
It does the same thing mentioned in the above tutorial. It modifies the Registry and changes the value of DWORD. Remember that it'll also disable new Metro UI and Explorer ribbon UI.
You can download it using following link:
Download Link
UPDATE: It seems the software has been removed by the developer.
This article was posted by VG in following section: Software, Windows 8.
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Varemenos
Lol, i was planning to make one tonight but i see someone beat me to it :S
GUGUITO
PLEASE SOME ONE CREATE A FIX TO KEEP THEM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME
Aaron
REALLY. less than 24 hours since the dev preview comes out, someone does this.
seahorsepip
This is amazing!
no ribbon+no metro=god
ghost ridzer
will this change the theme back to aero?
VG
^^ It'll not modify anything in the theme. It'll just enable old Vista and 7 style start menu.
Joe
This no longer works for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Build 8250)
John Sander
I'm with Joe, This no longer works for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview (Build 8250). I was happy again with win 8 until this happened, now its back to the next XP, which will be "Windows 7 Pro", unless we get the START button back...
VG
^^ Check following for Windows 8 CP:
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-enable-good-old-start-button-orb-and-start-menu-in-windows-8/