Leo Natan

You can adjust the color, opacity as well as add blur to resolve any issues with readability. Blur does not help readability; if you dilute the color enough, blur of white is white. And white text on white background is not readable. So your solution is make it darker. That's not a solution, that's a workaround.

Hi Tihii, looks good! Some problems may arise with white text and bright background color of the start menu. Perhaps adding some shadows to the text if the background color is light would be possible? Also, please consider an open animation in similar style to the native start menu. The sudden appearance is a sore.

Hi Tihiy, Glad to see you have not remained silent and have created this for Windows 10. I am not sure why, but somehow I remembered you said there will not be a version for Windows 10. I have one issue and one request. At some point, "All Programs" menu became empty: Also, if possible, please create an animation for the start menu, for consistency sake with other Windows 10 popups. Thanks, Leo

Nice, thanks for the 1.0.5 fix of taskbar button width.

@xp sounds interesting, thanks

StartIsGone removes the button entirely. I only want to remove the extra "hot corner" popup.

Hi Tihiy, The default start button does not look well when the taskbar is to the left or right, rather than top or bottom: Is it not possible to make the start image wider and then just center and crop to the appropriate size according to taskbar width? Thanks

When the taskbar is on the bottom, it works fine. Start button is in the bottom left corner, and everything is as expected. But Microsoft, again, fucked up with the stupid start image popping for people who do not have their taskbars on the bottom. Mine is to the left. So I have a start button at the top; I also have a start button active corner to the bottom when my cursor goes there. Anyway to remove this corner image? Thanks in advance

Since 1.3.1 newly installed games create shortcuts in Games start menu subfolder so it's searched like in Windows 7. If you don't have some shortcuts there, create them. I don't think Steam creates shortcuts there, and creating them would a chore for every Steam game.

Hi Tihiy, Sorry to sound like a broken record, but I would like to ask you to consider adding searching in the "games explorer" database from the start menu, like in Windows 7. Thanks

Still no searching in Games...

Here is a shout out for supporting search in games folder. Thanks!

Unfortunately, shortcuts for games are not created in start menu as this function is cut from Windows 8' game explorer, I may add a function to recreate them later but I can't promise. I would be very grateful if you do.

I see searching for games still doesn't find any results.

Tihiy, I think I noticed a bug. When searching in the start menu for games that appear in game center, it finds no results. However, they appear in the most-used applications list. Could you please add games to the search paths? Thanks, Leo

Yes, not only folders, but other shortcut types as well, such as control panels, etc. Funny thing is, I had a "Program and Features" link from my Windows 7 install, that remained in StartIsBack, but it is impossible to readd it if I remove it or have to reinstall Windows. I am also up for translation (BG and HE), so let me know when you need it.

Would it automatically deactivate, or is it only for future installs?

How does activation keep track of hardware change? I change the HDD and restore from backup, would it remain activated? I change HDD, activate with key (it still counts on the previous activation), but then I change the motherboard. What happens then? Thanks

I managed to reproduce the second on beta 4 just now.

A bug I noticed, from time to time, the hot corners manage to slip through. Most of the time they are disabled, but from time to time, the top left corner displays the metro switcher, and bottom left displays the start. Also, I notice, when disabling the top screen edge (drag to "close" desktop), the desktop icons flicker. Sorry if already mentioned.

It's same way in Windows 7 start menu, the color in the search box is not black. That's not true, only the "Search programs and files" is in gray, but typed text is black.

It's like asking whether a Vista key would work on 7.

The best way to go... What was previously in place was annoying to the power user - you had to stop the SFC, but then all files were at risk. Now you can just change the permissions to a file, modify it and only it, and if need, remove permissions. Much more secure also.

Not true. First you can't rename something you have no write permissions - only TrustedInstaller has the write and modify permissions of system files, so even in Safe Mode, you will still have to take ownership and change permissions; so no point in going to Safe Mode. Also, there is no SXS cache restore. The files in other folders (ie C:\Windows\System32\Notepad.exe) are only hard links to the original files in the SXS store. So, if you rename the hard link and put another file in its stead, Windows will not replace that.