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Skip Metro startscreen on Windows 8 with ClassicShell 3.5.1

Whether you want to use Metro in all its glory is up to you of course but for those who want avoid this interface as thoroughly as possible, version 3.5.1 of ClassicShell brings a useful new feature: it can now get you around the first instance of the metro startscreen that you are presented with ... Read more

Bring back Windows start menu with Classic Shell

by CSch

Update, 06/04/2012: Classic Shell is still working on Windows 8 Release Preview, build 8400. I have already posted an entry about third party applications that reproduce the missing Start button in Windows 8, but neither of the two was enough to be the real thing (see my previous post here). So here comes another Start ... Read more