Because Microsoft thinks it knows what’s best for users and apparently wants to confuse the living daylights out of them, Windows 8 has no Start button. I’ll just say that again so it sinks in: ...

When Microsoft added support for the revamped Start page into Windows 8.1, that eliminated the need for dedicated third-party Start menus, right? Wrong, say developers like Stardock, Classic Shell, ...

There are utilities (TClock, Hook99, possibly others) to do this in previous versions of Windows, but for XP they'd probably require a substantial rewrite. TClock can't even customize the button in ...