Simulate the "Start Menu" for Windows 8 New Toolbar

[Win8 Vision Network] The traditional desktop of Microsoft Windows 8 system cancels the start button and start menu familiar to Windows users, and adds a tile and start screen suitable for touch operation. Some users do not feel this. It is customary to think that in the traditional desktop, the start menu that clearly classifies the installed programs is needed, so some recovery start menu Win8 applications came into being. But if you need to use the function of starting menu in Windows 8 desktop in Win8 and don't want to use third-party application, there are some options. For example, we can create a simple program by using “New Toolbar”. The list, similar to the previous start menu, is used to facilitate program calls in the Win8 legacy interface.

Left: Win7 system "Start menu"

Right: Win8 traditional desktop cancels the familiar "Start menu"

Simple, first click on the Win8 start screen and click on the “Desktop” tile or directly press “Win+D” to enter the traditional desktop of Win8, then right click on the blank area of ​​the taskbar and select “Toolbar & mdash” ; New toolbar > rdquo;.

Icon: Create a new toolbar in the Win8 desktop

Then enter the <quo;system drive letter in the address bar of the pop-up window: UsersAll UsersMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms”, press Enter. Select the Start menu and click “Select Folder”

For example, if the current Win8 system disk is a G disk, we will enter “G:UsersAll UsersMicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms””.

Icon: Specify the program folder location for the Win8 new toolbar

Now we return to the Win8 desktop and see the added "Program" on the far left of the right part of the taskbar. Click to see the programs and applications in the current Win8 system and some system tools. If you have a more common program folder address, you can also make the appropriate path settings. Although this menu is different from the Windows Start menu, it still gives you some convenience in the traditional desktop calling program of Win8 that lacks the start menu.

Illustration: Win8 new taskbar appears "Program" menu

On June 26, Microsoft will hold the annual Build Developer Conference, which will directly release Windows 8 A preview version of the system's upgraded version of Windows 8.1. From the leaked information we can foresee that Windows 8.1 will restore the start button on the left side of the traditional desktop taskbar, but this start button and Win7 desktop can be opened differently from the start button of the start menu, its main role is from the traditional desktop Jump to the start screen or go to the tile list interface for all apps.

Illustration: Win8.1 may restore the start button, but not the start menu

What kind of functions and application updates will be released in the Windows 8.1 release preview, the start menu will not return Win8? Let us wait and see.