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The Customize Windows > Downloads > Free Tools > Enable Old Start Menu Keeping The Metro Features in Windows 8

By Abhishek Ghosh October 18, 2011 12:18 pm Updated on October 18, 2011

Enable Old Start Menu Keeping The Metro Features in Windows 8

This tool is for Windows 8 Developer’s Preview, it is not for Windows 7. You can enable Old Start Menu while keeping the new Metro features in Windows 8 Developers Preview using a small freeware named Metro Cheat for WDP.

This tool to enable old start menu in Windows 8 is developed by lysy1993lbn.

License : Not Mentioned

 

Details about Metro Cheat for WDP, the tool to enable old start menu in Windows 8 :

 

The developer has created simple batch script which allows to enable old Start menu, keeping all Metro features, It’s called “Metro Cheat” –

  • Run once takeown.cmd
  • Run METRO.cmd
  • Metro must be turned on in registry, and UAC must be turned OFF in order to enable Old Start Menu in Windows 8.
    RPEnabled value should be “1”
  • You can add metro.cmd to startup to Enable Old Start Menu for every time you start Windows 8

Preview Metro Cheat for WDP – notice the use to enable old start menu in Windows 8

 

Metro Cheat for WDP the tool to enable old start menu in Windows 8

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It is a 7z download, the file is very light, only 664 bytes in size.? Archive includes 4 batch scripts: takeown x64 & x86 and Metro cheat x64 & x86.

 

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About This Article

Title: Enable Old Start Menu Keeping The Metro Features in Windows 8
2011-10-18

Author: Abhishek Ghosh
Subjects: Downloads

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TheCustomizeWindows,

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011,
Vol.1(01),
p.1–13497 [IoT Ready Journal]


Source:The Customize Windows
ISSN: 0019-5847 ;
E-ISSN: 0019-5847 ;
Publisher:
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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Enable Old Start Menu Keeping The Metro Features in Windows 8," in The Customize Windows, October 18, 2011, December 11, 2019, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2011/10/enable-old-start-menu-keeping-the-metro-features-in-windows-8/.

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