StartIsBack+ returns Windows 8.1 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. StartIsBack+ is a free upgrade for all StartIsBack users.
What"s new in this version:
- Support for Windows 8.1 Spring Update
- Pin Metro apps to Taskbar from Start menu
- Setting to use modern apps close button to close app forcefully
General improvements:
- Automatic downloading of updates. StartIsBack now will download new versions automatically in background, using BITS service, and offer you to install them
- Default start button has shine effect
- Default start button can be used with bottom-left corner again
- Improved XP style All Programs menu new program highlighting
- Improved XP style All Programs menu responsiveness
- Improved Multi-monitor hot corners behavior
Fixed:
- Modern app icons didn"t show when dragging
- Shutdown button didn"t install Windows Updates by default
- ‘Problem with shortcut’ dialog could be spawned on startup
- ‘Display start menu adjacent to vertical taskbar’ worked incorrectly with auto-hide taskbar
- ‘Remove and prevent access to Shutdown’ Windows policy also prevented logoff
Download: StartIsBack+ 1.6 | 1.1 MB (30 Days Trial)
View: StartIsBack Website