Here is a useful tip on how to speed Start menu launch on your Windows 10 PC. Before you proceed with the instructions below, it is important to know that by the end of this guide, all of the windows maximize and minimize animations will be disabled systemwide on your Windows 10 PC. If this is something that doesn’t both you, follow the steps below.

Here’s how you can get back Windows 7 style Start menu in Windows 10 with Start10. Features include reintroducing the Search bar back into the Start menu, as well as adding back the quick links to the core system functionality that has been removed as part of Windows 10. Start10 also brings back the good old “All Programs” menu, which has been a preference for a large portion of users, but was taken away after Windows 7.

When Windows 8 was just starting to make waves, one of the things that caught many people off guard was the fact that the Start button was gone. Not hidden, not moved, but removed completely. With Windows 8’s move to Metro as an app launcher, there was deemed to be no need for a Start button. The Internet, nay the world disagreed.

The Developer Preview build of Windows 8 was released was just yesterday and we’ve come across quite a few people who actually want to have some of Windows 7’s features on Windows 8. One such feature is the classic Start Menu, which is quite dumbed down in Redmond’s new OS. We’ve got hold of an app which solves this issue, you can read about it after the jump!