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Power8 1.4.1.569 Beta

Developer: Power8 Team
Last updated: March 15, 2013
License: Freeware
OS Support: Windows (all)
File Size: 567 KB
Downloads: 204
∟ Last week: 1
User Rating: 3.5 / 5    (2 votes)

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The start menu replacer for Win8, styled and integrated inside taskbar.

Features:

  • No system files patching
  • No hooks over system objects
  • No app-init DLLs
  • No additional services, drivers, etc
  • No trash in registry
  • No installation - just unpack and launch
  • Small, fast and powerful
  • Open-source

What's New:

  • [new] Spanish localization
  • [new] Automatic notification if Autostart or Autoupdate features are turned off
  • [new] Settings window with:
  • All checkboxes from Start button context menu
  • Ability to set Start button size, layout and picture (not supported on XP)
  • Ability to switch off the monitoring of removable drives and thus be able to safe-eject them
  • Ability to switch off the auto-notifier described above
  • [changed] Small speedup for search
  • [changed] Considerable speedup for displaying window for the 1st time
  • [changed] MFU list now will show even less duplicates than before
  • [changed] Visual Studio launcher is filtered out from MFU list
  • [fixed] Issue when user cannot search Control panel item by camels (e.g. "paf" searched now results in "Programs and Features")
  • [fixed] Invalid context menu position over main button (problem when it becomes hidden below the taskbar)
  • [fixed] Random error "E_SHAREVIOLATION" when trying to open the button stack

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