Windows 8 Start menu and shutdown button trick


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I hope you don't mind, but I ended up extracting your .exe with 7-zip and made a Classic Shell Start button png. The icon slightly moves up and down to make a quasi animation (I displaced the dimensions slightly).

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I hope you don't mind, but I ended up extracting your .exe with 7-zip and made a Classic Shell Start button png. The icon slightly moves up and down to make a quasi animation (I displaced the dimensions slightly).

Nice! I don't mind at all. Good work! I dont consider myself a programmer in the smallest form, so whatever anyone wants to do to improve on what I did is more than welcome!

I dont think I am necessarily cheating the system. If you've ever tried to control a metro UI interface inside a full screen RDP session you can appreciate how frustrating it can be to get the mouse cursor just right. It's not a replacement for the UI in the way that the other start menu replacement programs are.

I was trying to think of a way to get the winkey+x right click menu from the pinned icon, but I can't figure it out because its just a pinned shortcut in the taskbar. If someone could figure that out that would be awesome.

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Isn't it easier just to press the Start button on the keyboard to switch between the start screen and the desktop?

The shutdown button is a very nice idea however :)

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i would like the ability to add restart, shutdown, and sleep to this list:

Or Put Logout here:

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I searched for Logout many times there without thinking.

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Cheating the system is a step backwards in IMHO.

What else can you do when the system has design flaws though?

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Isn't it easier just to press the Start button on the keyboard to switch between the start screen and the desktop?

It is, but like I said sometimes I am dealing with servers that actually have keyboards with no winkey. I know ctrl+esc works, but this is simple. To each their own.

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  • 2 months later...

Sorry to bring this dead post back alive, but using the Win+X editor I was able to modify the Win+X menu to add the shutdown app at the bottom of group 1. Finding this method the easiest, quickest way to get to the shutdown prompt for users (including myself).

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Blogged about it here: http://bit.ly/ShSD0s

if anyone is interested in adding this as well. May be useful.

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