If that isn't enough, you can even change how Windows Explorer menus look. Just right-click the start button > settings. You can replace the start button icon with any image of your choice, choose how the start menu looks (Windows classic or Windows 7 style), choose which shortcuts open the Modern UI screen, choose icon sizes and even disable or enable active corners (which let you switch to Modern UI). However, if you wish to customise the look-and-feel your start menu, Classic Shell has enough options for power users. So all you have to do is install it and enjoy your classic Windows start menu, with no further steps involved. By default, this app will hide the Windows 8.1 start button and boot to desktop without opening the Windows 8 Start screen. The simplest method available is to download Classic Shell and install the app. Microsoft might decide to bring the start menu back in a future update, but why wait when you can restore it right now? Here are our three favourite ways to get the start menu back in Windows 8.
Clicking the start button in Windows 8.1 merely takes you to the Windows 8 start screen - the one with all those tiles.
But this button was but a shell of the start menu of the past. The start button was removed with the launch of Windows 8 and then brought back with the Windows 8.1 update. The start menu as we knew it since Windows 95, is dead.
