Start button for Windows 8 [duplicate]

Solution 1:

You're going to have to use a third party app. Stardock's Start8 and Pokki are two such apps which provide a 'replacement' start button for Windows 8

Start8:

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Pokki:

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Solution 2:

Been using Classic Shell for a long time now to fix some of the annoyances in Windows 7, and now it works great with Windows 8 as well!

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