HelloToStart

HelloToStart is a free program that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of your operating system and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it. The main features are:


 * Highly customizable start menu with multiple styles and skins


 * Quick access to recent, frequently-used, or pinned programs


 * Find programs, settings, files and documents


 * Windows-like Start button for your operating system

HelloToStart has been in active development for a few days and has over a thousand downloads.

The latest version of HelloToStart is 1.0.0.

Download it at http://www.masgaling.com.ph/hellotostart/ (fictional).

It was released on November 15, 2014 by MasGaling for the Windows desktop, OS X, and Linux. It is an open-source software. The project began in 2014; since then software has been downloaded a thousand times. The distinguishing feature of HelloToStart to other start menu programs is that it is customizable and restores the familiarity of past Microsoft Windows versions. HelloToStart does not replace the Windows Shell, hosted by Explorer.exe, but complements it. All of its components are optional and independent of each other. Classic Shell is programmed in Python. Although it modifies Windows behaviors, it does not do so by modifying or tweaking Windows registry settings or replacing or patching system files. All of its modifications are done by its own code using Windows APIs without patching files. It was supposed to add a classic start menu to Windows 7 but it became more than that because of the lack of start menu in Windows 8. The classic start menu plan expanded from being a pure simple, classic menu to a unified start menu containing all the features of the classic, XP and Windows 7 styles.