• Do you use a third party application to restore the start menu? If so which one.

Google StartIsback. I've tried just about all of them and this is by far the best.

Glyn Barnes


I should receive my new DAW in about a week which will be Windows 8 64 bit professional. It will be a specialist DAW build and the only peripherals I have to worry about are my A800 and Quad Capture which have win 8 drivers so I am not expecting technical issues. I do expect some blue language for a few days as stumble around the new interface.

A few questions to those running win 8

• Do you use a third party application to restore the start menu? If so which one.
• How easy is it to get rid of the news feeds, social media, e-commerce and other junk tiles on the start screen?
• Any legacy VSTs that worked in Vista 64 bit, or Windows 7 64 bit I may have to finally retire?

1 I use Classic Shell which is free and does a nice job.
2 I haven't done anything to change the active tiles. I did group them though. 
3 None that come to mind. All my VSTs work fine. But I did not install all the old ones. Trying to cut down.

Let me know how you get along.  

I'm running Windows 8 Pro, Sonar X2, Motu 896 via USB, Korg USB drivers. No problems here, everything works great. 
 
I'm getting used to not having the start menu. I'm just grouping shortcuts and folders on the desktop and taskbar. Plus I have a shortcut to the Programs folder pinned to the taskbar which is handy when looking for the seldom used apps that I don't keep shortcuts to.
 
I have turned off almost every tile on the start screen but the weather app is nice if I'm to lazy to look out the window.