Since Windows 8, the newer Microsoft OS's have been designed with touchscreen capabilities in mind. This led to the diminished functionality of the classically recognizable Start menu. Earlier versions of Windows 8 didn't use a start menu, that bottom-left based pop-up menu that Windows users...
Dear Forum,
Windows 8 has blocked me again!!
I like to organise my desktop with shortcuts to folders that I cleaned up using stardock fences.
I have desktop shortcuts that I now cannot move. I have installed fences 2.13, try to move to fences and nothing moves.
Can anyone help?
Hope you are...
I am using a trial version of Star8, and I received an email introducing Modern Mix. I would like to share with you.
One of the features that interests me most is "multi-tasking".
Win 8.1 by default runs an app in full screen.
Modern Mix fixes that and now one can run multiple apps, just like...
Modern UI can be a challenging transformation for Windows 8 users. Windows customers familiar with the desktop may find the prospect of the Modern UI software useful in this scenario. This demonstration shows how the ModernMix software from Stardock allows you to simply run Modern UI ...
Modern UI can be a challenging transformation for Windows 8 users. Windows customers familiar with the desktop may find the prospect of the Modern UI software useful in this scenario. This demonstration shows how the ModernMix software from Stardock allows you to simply run Modern UI (Start...
Start8 1.20 Changelog
-Updated for Windows 8.1 Preview build compatibility
-Start8 allows customizing the Start button image AND provides a desktop Start menu
-Added new prompt on first run to select a default button image. Upgrade installs will not see this prompt.
-When running on Windows 8.1...
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Just want to share with any win 8 users who might be still yearning for an old-fashioned Start button and start menu.
http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/
*** The program is Free
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I have to say, back when the career path for technology led through end user support I learned a lot right out of school. Most of what I learned I still carry with me today. Even so, time and bad habits can cause a person to forget some best practices.
When Windows 8 was forced upon my new...
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last week i came across a website that offered a w8 add-on which was very similar to stardock's modernmix, at the same price, the type of add-on that allowed you to open modern apps in a window. i thought i had bookmarked the site but i didn't, and now for the life of me i can't find it, even...
In this review, Mike Fara at Windows8Forums.com shows you some of the features of Stardock's Start8. With this software, you will be able to bring back the "Start Menu" from Windows 7 and prior Windows versions, without any significant performance overhead.
It didn't take longfor a number of packages to appear to enable modification of the Windows 8 desktop to a more "traditional" look. I was trying Stardocks start8 when I discovered the free open source startW8 which I find to work better:
StartW8 - Download
Yes it's true... If you want Windows 8 but don't want the default Start screen then StarDock has created one for you to purchase. How well this will do against the free variants remains to be seen.
Start8 includes:
You can try the app for free for 30days and can be found here:
Start8...
Some users find it difficult to use Windows 8 without start menu. Fortunately Stardock has released a small application called "Start8"
Features:
- Adds a “Start” menu to the Windows 8 taskbar
- Enables quick access and searching of your installed applications
- Adds Run...
For some reason Windows 7 (Home Premium, 64-bit) has recently stopped displaying Unicode characters correctly. I know its a Windows issue, not specific to a certain program, because the problem appears on Asian characters and symbols like the stars in my song ratings across various programs like...
Just purchased Windows blinds , Always thought "Stardock" made junk but am very impressed with skin studio 7 . Its almost perfect ....but not 100 %.
Ok , my question is ....
Can i start changing .dlls like you can do normally when creating a VS ( visual style.) I'm under the impression that...
OneUp Industries , a company launched by the author of such notable Stardock applications as Fences and ObjectDock , has released a public beta of its first software offering.
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I tried to use StarDock's Bootskin Vista, but it removed the default windows loading animation and failed to replace it with the new one. It then failed to restore the default. I uninstalled it with no luck - the files have been changed. I then tried running various restore programs found...