Create a new toolbar for Windows 8 to simulate the Start menu

"Win8 Vision Network" The traditional desktop of the Microsoft Windows 8 system cancels the familiar Start button and Start menu for Windows users, and adds a magnetic and start screen for touch operations, which some users are not comfortable with, Think that in the traditional desktop still need from the previous kind of the installation program clear classification of the Start menu, so some recovery Start menu Win8 application came into being. But if you need to use a feature similar to the previous Windows desktop Start menu, and you don't want to use a third-party application, there are some options, such as "new Toolbar" to create a simple list of programs, like the previous Start menu, Win8. Used to facilitate the Win8 of the traditional interface of the program calls.

Left: Win7 system's "Start Menu"

Right Picture: Win8 Traditional Desktop cancels the familiar "Start Menu"

The procedure is simple, first click on the Win8 Start screen "desktop" tiles or directly press "Win+d" into the Win8 of the traditional desktop, and then in the blank area of the taskbar press the right mouse button, select "Toolbar-new toolbar."

Diagram: New toolbar in Win8 desktop

Then enter the "system drive letter: Usersall Usersmicrosoftwindowsstart Menuprograms" in the address bar of the pop-up window, carriage return. Select the Start menu and click "Select Folder".

For example, the current WIN8 system disk is G disk, we enter "G:usersall usersmicrosoftwindowsstart menuprograms".

Diagram: New toolbar for Win8 Specify program folder location

Now that we're back on the Win8 desktop, we'll see the added "apps" on the right side of the taskbar, and click to see the programs and applications in the current WIN8 system as well as some of the system tools. Left If you have a more commonly used program folder address, you can also do the appropriate path settings. Although this menu differs from the Windows Start menu, it can also be handy for Win8 traditional desktop callers that are missing the Start menu.

Diagram: Win8 The new taskbar appears on the Programs menu

June 26, Microsoft will hold the annual Build developers conference, will be directly released the Windows 8 system upgrade version of Windows 8.1 release preview. From the leaked information we can foresee that Windows8.1 will resume the Start button on the left side of the traditional desktop taskbar, but this Start button and the Win7 desktop can start the Start menu and different, its main function is to jump from the traditional desktop to the start screen, or into the full application of the tile list interface.

Diagram: Win8.1 may resume the start button, but not the Start menu

What is the function and application update for the release preview of Windows 8.1 and will the Start menu return to Win8? Let's see.