Second, there is a woeful lack of customization. The All Apps list keeps going and going and going. The Win10 Start menu can be resized, but only in fixed-size blocks.įigure 2. You can unpin all of the tiles (right-click), but when you do, you’re left with an ugly black strip that can’t be removed. The Windows 10 Start menu in a fresh install.įirst, the live tiles on the right look a lot like advertising (in many cases, they are), and their movement is distracting. Many users will have no problems at all with Windows 10’s Start menu, shown in Figure 1.įigure 1.
Both let you drop back to the Win10 Start menu with a single click. Plus, they throttle Cortana and add custom cascading windows to the All Apps list. Both hide the live tiles unless you expressly ask for them. Start10, from Stardock, takes a few liberties with the Win7 look, which you may or may not like, and costs $5.
Classic Shell concentrates on providing a close-to-exact replica of Windows 7, and it’s free (formerly open source, now freeware). Many Windows aficionados yearn for the Windows 7 Start menu, and the two products reviewed here strive to give it to them, pasted on top of Windows 10. Now two of the leading makers of Start menu alternatives for Windows 8 have released counterparts for Windows 10.ĭo you need a replacement Start menu for Windows 10? Some users will find the Windows 10 Start menu to be good enough, but many won’t. Born as a button in Windows 95, modified in XP and Vista, and blossoming into its most usable form in Windows 7, the Start menu anchored the Windows UI until Microsoft foolishly discarded it with Windows 8, sparking an entire cottage industry of third-party replacements. Most every longtime Windows user knows the sad saga of the lowly Start menu.
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