It's possible to backup and restore the Start menu settings when it's causing problems, or you want to move your settings to a new account, and here we show you how to do it.

There are a handful of ways you can restore the Start menu in Windows 8, provided you're willing to install a third-party program.

Learn to export, import and fix a particular Start Menu layout for all users, and across Windows 11/10 computers using PowerShell and Group Policy, for the sake of uniformity.

Microsoft’s decision to restore a traditional Start menu — an iconic user interface (UI) element in Windows that harks back to Windows 95 almost 19 years ago — was in some ways not surprising.

Folks at Microsoft have reassured me that the code for the classic Start Menu has been ripped out of Windows, so if you're hoping for an official solution, you're out of luck.

Because Microsoft thinks it knows what’s best for users and apparently wants to confuse the living daylights out of them, Windows 8 has no Start button. I’ll just say that again so it sinks in ...

Restore the Start Menu and disable Metro UI in Windows 8 Once you do this, Windows 8 starts to look and feel a lot like Windows 7.

Miss the way Windows XP would show all your installed software in one big list? Here are two ways to restore that capability in Windows 7.