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.

Fully translated: English, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, French, Danish, Greek, Italian, Turkish, Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovak, Finnish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Serbian, Slovenian, Bangla. RTL languages are not supported.

?hangelog in Version 2.1 :
Hot: Advanced option - Show taskbar on Start screen. Very useful on tablets!
Configurator fully supports high-DPI screens and RTL languages
Desktop toast notification is shown when new StartIsBack version is available
"Pin to Start menu" is available in all programs context menus, not just in File Explorer
Excluded shortcuts for system shortcuts available in right pane from MFU
Multiple license activations are possible on the same Windows installation, same license key, but different hardware
Fix: 'Start is apps' feature breaking toast notifications
Fix: closing desktop returns to desktop
New translations
NOTE: due to Microsoft request, all start button images containing Windows logo were removed. You can download them separately

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