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Metro Cheat Lets You Enable Start Menu In Windows 8 Without Disabling Other Metro Features

Posted January 30, 2012 – 4:37 pm in: Freeware
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By know you should know that the latest version of Windows, Windows 8, doesn’t have a Start menu and the all new Start screen replaces it. Though the new Start screen is awesome for tablets, it doesn’t look good on non-touch devices. Because of this reason, many users are looking for workarounds to enable the good, old Start menu in Windows 8.

 

 

We have already shown you how to enable Start menu in Windows 8 Developer Preview build by editing the Windows Registry. The only problem with the trick is that it disables other Metro features such as the new Task Manager and Windows Explorer Ribbon as well.

Windows 8 Metro

Users who would like to enable Start menu in Windows 8 without disabling other Metro features may download and install Metro Cheat, a free software from a deviantart member.

How to use:

Step 1: Visit this page and download Metro Cheat.7z file.


Step 2: Next, use 7-Zip, WinRAR or WinZip software to extract the archive. You will get Metro.exe file.

Disable Windows 8 Metro

Step 3: Run Metro.exe file with admin privilege. To do this, right-click on the software and then select Run as administrator. You are done! Hover the mouse cursor over the Start orb to see the standard Start menu.

Metro Cheat supports both x86 and x64 versions of Windows 8. We tested it on Windows 8 x86 and can confirm that it works without any issues.

  Tags: Customize Windows 8, Freeware for Windows 8, Start Menu
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4 Comments

  1. Andreas
    Posted January 31, 2012 at 1:20 am | Permalink

    Microsoft themselves will have to implement some easy way to get rid of the touchscreen interface for Windows 8.
    How otherwise does Microsoft hope to sell this OS to those who do not use tablets or do not (want to) use a touchscreen with their desktop PC?

    I personally will never buy a touchscreen for my desktop PC. It would be unworkable. I talked about this a lot with many other PC owners and until now I have not met a single person who would want a touchscreen interface for use with a desktop PC.

  2. kamal ashraf
    Posted January 31, 2012 at 10:19 pm | Permalink

    can you give me direct link to download iso of windows 8?

  3. Duncan
    Posted February 5, 2012 at 6:16 am | Permalink

    Downloaded and followed instructions and sorry to say does not work. Win8 x64 developer preview.

  4. admin
    Posted February 6, 2012 at 10:20 am | Permalink

    Please try to logoff and logon.

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