In Windows 8, Classic Shell adds the Start button back to a user's desktop and provides the same classic customizable Start Menu it does in older Windows builds.

Some good news for Windows 8 haters – the Start Button’s return has all but been confirmed by leaked screenshots of a pre-release version of Windows 8.1, although perhaps in the way you were ...

In this review I tested three different Start button replacements (Power8, Start8 and Classic Start Menu). The tests were run on Windows Preview version build 8400.

With Windows Blue, a k a Windows 8.1, Microsoft is re-introducing a Start Button and adding a boot-straight-to-desktop option. Here's how these may work.

We may even see the Windows 8 Start Button return in the Windows 8.1 Public Preview, during the Microsoft Build conference from June 26-28 2013. As more details are announced we will keep you updated.

Windows 8.1 (Blue) Start screen, with the same wallpaper as the Desktop When you click the Windows 8.1 Start button, you will jump to the Metro "All Apps" view, which is basically a list of every ...

The company brought the Start button back in Windows 8.1. But the button doesn't have to stay there in your taskbar— there are hacks to re-hide it. The Super Users at Stack Exchange are here to ...

I've heard from one of my good sources that the Start Button, as well as a new boot-straight-to-desktop option are included in the most recent internal "Milestone Preview" builds of Windows 8.1.

The Start button and menu were introduced with Windows 95 over 15 years ago, and it appears Microsoft will scrap both of them once Windows 8 is released later this year.

Microsoft Windows 8.1 will have a button in the lower right-hand corner labeled "Start." Sound familiar? Well, it's not exactly your old Windows "Start" button. Article continues below this ad ...

Bottom line: When you get the Windows 8.1 upgrade in a few weeks, just remember that the Start button is probably not what you were hoping it would be. Photo courtesy of Microsoft ...

Microsoft has removed the Start button orb from Windows 8 but its replacement is a lot more fitting for the company's new operating system. A number of new gestures, for touch and keyboard / mouse ...