Tihiy

You understand that when you restart explorer elevated it starts other programs elevated thus UAC is effectively off? If you want to browse folders as administrator, enable 'Launch folder windows in separate process' and launch elevated explorer.

I can confirm starting explorer.exe from elevated cmd.exe makes it start without StartIsBack. Must be some cmd.exe compatibility bits. However i don't consider this important at all. StartIsBack works with any UAC settings and with UAC completely disabled (EnableLUA=0).

It's disabled for pinning (even if you try to pin wuapp.exe). As a workaround you can pin some other shortcut and then set its target as 'wuapp.exe'.

That's exactly how it behaves in Win7. But thanks for reporting 'menu stays forcibly open' issue.

I can't reprocuce that. Do you have 'Enable context menus and dragging and dropping' enabled in Start menu properties? Do you have arrows and text describing the drop operation? Does drag&drop works in other shell parts?As for start menu not closing if dropped via start button, that's a good report. Try to find more such occasions when start menu not closing when it should.

What does it show then? Give me a link / screenshots please.

Next version should be Release Candidate and it should come in a week, i hope, alongside with a site and purchase options. Issues need to be resolved - Metro hotkey not working first time - Icon flickering - Translations - Better install/uninstall experience - Auto/manual updates for StartIsBack Issues wontfix for RC/1.0 - Gray text in start menu search (that's how search fields look with RTM theme) - Any Win8RP issues - Arabic/RTL languages - Black High contast theme support All feature requests are to be considered. I need more trusty pals which can help me test activation system. If you have several real PCs with x86/x64 Win8/Server2012 and can spend some time helping me, please e-mail/PM me.

That's not an issue, that's just the lack of special handling for RP. In RTM it looks as intended.Please try to describe flickering. Does only top-left 20x20 corner trigger it? Does flickering happen when you move mouse or when it stays also? Do you have any tweakers installed? Try downloading skip metro suite and check if it running it resolves the issue.

BETA 4 Download: http://www.startisback.com/StartIsBack_betafour.zip You made me believe there's a lot of bugs. So i fixed them! I seriously dislike AVG.

Could you try to find a reproducible case for that issue, or describe when such thing happens? I never saw flickering either.

Don't worry guys, i'll try to fix this imprefection

It's Windows 8 feature. Recycle Bin confirmation is off by default.I found how to fix Windows Server 2012 - exclude StartIsBackCfg.exe from DEP options.

Just select item with keyboard and press F2. F2 is universal hotkey to rename things.

Uhuh. Not sure how to fix that I thought everyone uses F2 to rename.

Wait wait waaaaaait. You're describing exactly unfixed behavior. How it is possible? Can anyone else confirm that renaming pinned programs actually works or doesn't? Okay, works for MrGRiM. How it's broken then? Which file?

Which scenario you consider to be an issue? There would be automatic updates. I plan to make Enterprise Edition after Personal Edition which would be MSI based so it can be pushed to all users via Group Policies painlessly.Don't heat the discussion, you can send me a PM on your thoughts.

Argh. Here, resized them for you: http://startisback.com/glow.zip

Then you didn't re-size it right. Height has to be 3xWidth.

Yeah they're not resized. I'll try to fix that, resize it yourself to ~54x162 if you want.

Any comment on if it actually works?

BETA THREE "THE SALVATION" HAS ARRIVED You're now ready for Windows 8 GA. Getting it in time was my ultimate goal and i hope i succeeded! From prototype to fully functional version in three weeks, quite a feat. This beta is intended to be last beta. Note that it's 30 day trial (per user). It's fully featured and won't nag you. After trial expires, StartIsBack will still work, but start menu will be non-functional and will nag you every boot. This build is capable of activation, but activation itself is not tested yet, so i give license keys to few trusted pals and we'll be testing. Buying and license key gifts to donators should come after testing. Download: http://startisback.com/StartIsBack_betathree.zip List of changes: And installer of course! Note that StartIsBack is installed for user only - into \Users\<User>\AppData\Local\StartIsBack Installer is a bit lame for now, but installing per-machine won't likely be implemented for v1.0 personal edition. Spread the word about this version, it's meant to be heard of, i hope there are no bugs . Icon is probably temporary, shamrock will stay probably. Everybody loves shamrock?

Yes. I found a critical bug in StartIsBack which leads to explorer crash and I'm trying to fix it. i've fixed it.

Don't worry, guys, C&D letters will be sent the second i won't like BetaArchive actions. Everything can be cracked, even with hardware protection keys and poly-cripted protected code all over (recall Skype). What's more important is to make sure that license key and activation system can't be hijacked. I've taken care of that. Besides, StartIsBack will be cheap Stay tuned, Beta 3 will come 25/26.

Beta 3 is coming this week, here are some screenshots of updated config UI Note that shamrock and circle moving are possible logos for StartIsBack If you know a designer or a good design for possible start orb logo, please PM me.

To rename, i have to perform some resource manipulation. To keep out Metro apps, i hook shortcuts store and return only 'metro' or 'dual' (browsers) mode shortcuts. That's all done in memory. Whole mechanism of app shortcuts getting to metro launcher is complex, i work on top of iceberg only. That was reported but i was unable to reproduce that yet.