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Archetype Start Card is a clone of the original start card, which you can find in all versions of Windows from 95 to Vista. Information technology has a variety of avant-garde features:

  • Drag and drop to let you organize your applications
  • Options to bear witness Favorites, expand Control Console, etc
  • Shows recently used documents. The number of documents to display is customizable
  • Translated in 35 languages, including Right-to-left back up for Arabic and Hebrew
  • Does not disable the original get-go carte du jour in Windows. You lot can access it by Shift+Click on the start button
  • Right-click on an item in the menu to delete, rename, sort, or perform other tasks
  • The search box helps you lot find your programs without getting in the way of your keyboard shortcuts
  • Supports jumplists for like shooting fish in a barrel admission to recent documents and mutual tasks
  • Bachelor for 32 and 64-bit operating systems
  • Has support for skins, including additional third political party skins
  • Fully customizable in both looks and functionality
  • Support for Microsoft's Active Accessibility
  • Converts the "All Programs" push in the Windows menu into a cascading menu (Vista and Windows 7)
  • Implements a customizable Start button (Windows 7 and 8)
  • Can prove, search and launch Windows Store apps (Windows 8)
  • And concluding but not least – information technology'southward FREE!

What'due south New:

This is the starting time version to officially support Windows x. Information technology fixes all known crashes and compatibility issues with Windows x.

  • The offset menu searches modern PC settings for Windows 8.one and Windows x
  • Added new Midnight skin with dark background
  • Added new flat Metro skin that uses the offset screen colors
  • New ability to apply settings from XML files from command line: utilise ClassicStartMenu.exe -xml
  • New setting to override the system DPI resolution just for the start menu
  • New setting to change the user picture
  • Improved support for bear on and loftier resolution displays
  • Added support for Scottish, Catalan, Macedonian and Persian languages
  • Multiple small improvements and bugfixes