Congratulations! You've just found the best way to relieve your (and your users) Windows 8 pain.StartIsBack returns Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7.StartIsBack radically improves desktop usability and makes new Start screen clutter-free.StartIsBack is fully native lightweight zero-privileges program, cheap and fair, fast, stable and secure.

Start is back! Congratulations! You've just found the best way to relieve your (and your users) Windows 8 pain.
- StartIsBack returns Windows 8 a real fully featured start menu and start button, behaving exactly like the ones in Windows 7.
- StartIsBack radically improves desktop usability and makes new Start screen clutter-free.
- StartIsBack is fully native lightweight zero-privileges program, cheap and fair, fast, stable and secure.

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?hangelog in Version 2.1 RC1:
Option to show taskbar on the Start Screen. When enabled, taskbar is available on the Start Screen. It's also recolored to match Metro color. Supports auto-hide and secondary taskbars. Hot corners which are overlapped by taskbar on Start Screen behave like configured to behave on desktop.
"Pin to Start menu" is available in all programs shell context menus, not just in File Explorer
Excluded shortcuts for system shortcuts which are available on the right start menu pane (Run, Control Panel, etc) from start menu MFU program list
Multiple activations of the same license key is possible on same Windows installation but different hardware (to handle VMWare Fusion / Parallels Desktop)

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