Yep, in the same way you can start typing to find something on the Start Menu, you can start typing to look up an app.
Navigation: The green Start button always brings you back to the Start menu from any location in your Portable Media Center.
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Makes the new Start screen and Windows 8 Apps run over the desktop, which gives you access to the taskbar and start menu like in Windows 7 and XP.
In addition to bringing up the Start Menu, you can use it return to the desktop, all without having to hit the keyboard.
Bottom line: Whatever Microsoft does or doesn't do later this year, you can get back your Start Menu and desktop supremacy in Windows 8, right now, with these utilities.
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RetroUI Pro allows you to brings back features which Microsoft removed in Windows 8, such as the Start Button and Start Menu, and adds RetroUI exclusive features that allow you to run the new Windows 8 Start Screen and new Windows 8 Apps on the classic Windows desktop.
Pin that group to your start menu, and you can bypass all of the junk updates you don't care about.
When first installed, Pokki advertises its apps at the bottom of the Start Menu, but you can turn this off.
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To get back to the start, you swipe from the right, revealing something akin to the old Start menu.
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You see, contrary to popular belief, the START menu was not about taste in UI design.
As you probably know, there's no Start button, and the Start Menu is comprised of Windows Phone-esque Live Tiles.
In the first one, "group, " you'll find a set of live tiles (much akin to the Start menu), with each one representing a member of your group.
Nevertheless, interest has been sufficient for Stardock to invest in an update that reinstates even more old-school flavor -- including the ability to drag and drop Start menu items, and to disable the new Start screen toggle that appears whenever you move your cursor to that hotly disputed lower-left corner.
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