Activate the Windows 8 start menu in the Metro UI

Windows 8's new Metro Start menu is optimized for tablet useLogo and therefore comes without the start button on the desktop surface by default. But if you use Windows 8 with the mouse and don't want to do without the classic start menu, you can activate it again with the small ViStart tool.

 

In the following picture is the Windows 8 desktop without the material moisture meter shows you the Start button seen in the system tray. This should be changed in the course of the following tip.

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First of all, the Freeware ViStart downloaded and installed.

2_Setup-File

In the Install Manager, both hook for the SweetIM Options problem-free remote .

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When the installation is complete, the start button is immediately visible in the task bar. However, there is still one here overlap with the other icons.

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To correct this misalignment, one must first access the desktop a new folder to be created. The name of it doesn't matter.

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Then with a right-click auf die taskbar in the context menu toolbars > New toolbar .

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Then it has to new created folder from desktop selected .

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The name of the new folder will now appear in the system tray. With another right-click auf die taskbar must now be the tick in the context menu taskbar fix be removed.

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In the next step, as shown in the picture below, the new folder in the system tray over the dotted bar completely to left-wing pushed .

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Now it's almost there. In the penultimate step, the context menu called the system tray to there the two hook in text show and Title show zu remove.

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Finally one more Double on the dotted Bar right on the taskbar and the error is eliminated.

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The following picture then shows the pasted one classic start menu in Windows 8. Have fun trying.

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