New major update ViStart 8.1 the ultimate start menu for windows 8

Vistart the free start menu for Windows 8 and older Windows versions got a “double” major update with lots of new and improved features. Vistart has of course all the features that you expect from a start menu and then some more. One of the best features in comparison of some paid alternatives like Start8 from Stardock, is of course that Vistart 8 is completely free while having more features and functionality.
read more of the new and improved features of Vistart 8.1:

Skins

The most eye catching is of course the complete renewed skin manager for Vistart that comes with already 3 pre installed skins and 4 start button images. You can change the Vistart skins now in a eye blink without even have to restart Vistart or Windows. This is also the case for the start buttons you can change them independently from the skins so you can mix start buttons and skins to select your look of choice for Vistart. On our website you can download 25 additional free skins and 20 buttons that are now even more easy to install for everyone . Also you can use your own .png images to enhance your start menu button or create your own skin. We can proudly say that Vistart is the most customizable start menu available on the net.

Completely new control panel

Vistart has a completely new control panel for all options and preferences that is easily accessible from various places within the Start menu. Now you can adjust all settings/options/preferences in one place and we added a lot of new options and settings.

Metro Control and Access

Within the control panel you can control how metro is behaving or even disable certain metro features. Par example you can set Windows 8 to skip the metro and boot directly to the windows 8 desktop. You also can Disable “hot” corners, charms bar, etc so you even can make Windows 8 function like Windows 7.

To have easy access from the desktop to the “metro interface” we added two extra shortcuts in the start menu are to easily access the Windows 8 Metro start screen or switch to the Windows 8 Apps window from Vistart.

Search

Vistart had already a building search that is even faster than the original build in Microsoft search, we even improved on that to enhance the search results even further especially for Windows 8 app search.