New
Microsoft Windows 8 has a metro style start screen. In this new windows 8
metro interface you may be noticed that, the old classic start menu not
included. But one simple trick help you to enable the old classic start
menu that look like on Windows 7 on your windows 8 developer preview by
disabling the metro user interface. Follow below steps to enable old
start menu in Windows 8.
How to Get back the Windows 7 Start Menu in Windows 8
1. Open Regedit (win+r > type ” regedit ” and enter
2. Go to ” HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer “
3. Double-click on RPEnabled and change the value from 1 to 0
4) Close Regedit.
After this
classic start menu should immediately appear on Windows 8. If you like
to revert back to Metro UI, simply follow the above steps and change
value from 0 to 1 in Step 3.