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Auxiliary & Enhance

[v2.9.20, v1.7.6, v2.1.2] StartIsBack – Call classic Start Menu back to Windows 8/8.1/10

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StartIsBack (StartIsBack+, StartIsBack++, AKA: StartIsBack Plus, StartIsBack Plus Plus) is a series of auxiliary desktop enhancement software, specially designed for replacing the gaudy and notorious Metro UI of Window 8/8.1/10 with Windows XP/7’s classic and efficient start menu (has the most popular style and function) – which process can also be referred to as “Restore the classic start menu”.

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[v1.0.4, v2.8.7, v3.5, v4.2023] Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 PE by Ratiborus all in one place

Windows PE (Preinstallation Environment) means lightweight versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems that allow you to boot from DVD, USB or over network. This is a collection post for Windows PE assembly (Windows 7 PE, Windows 8 PE, Windows 8.1 PE, and Windows 10 PE) made by the famous reverse engineer Ratiborus from a very popular Russian computer forum Ru.Board. They will be updated as new utilities or drivers are added.

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Microsoft Windows XP, 7, 8.1, 10, 11 64-bit Official Setup (Original ISO) AIO

AppNee never intended to release the Windows setup ISO image files (not only because they have too big file size), but the following two reasons direct cause we have to do this for so many pure Windows players:

  1. Windows 10‘s design and performance shrinks drastically
  2. On the whole Internet, it is almost impossible to find any clean, untouched, official Windows setup ISO files

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Auxiliary & Enhance

[v6.0] Start Menu 8 – Bring back the classic Start Menu to Windows 8/8.1

As is known to all, Windows 8 removes the traditional start menu, which makes a lot of old users unaccustomed. Although the Windows 10 Technical Preview has brought back this feature, before the Windows 10 officially released, for users are still using Windows 8/8.1, we still can use Start Menu 8 to get our long-expected start menu back.

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Microsoft Windows All Versions 32-bit Official Setup (Original ISO) AIO

Since its appearance in 1985, Microsoft Windows has changed from the original graphical user interface based on MS-DOS to the subsequent multi-window interface, and its version has been constantly upgraded as the development of computer hardware technology. Its architecture is from 16-bit, to 32-bit, to 64-bit; and its version from the original Windows 1.0 to the well-known Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11 these desktop systems, as well as Windows Server this kind of enterprise system.

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