Start Menu 7 is a new software that replaces the Start Menu on Windows 7 with a different one. The standard Windows 7 start menu is compact, while Start Menu 7 covers a larger area and comes with additional functionality. It’s difficult to say whether the new Start Menu 7 offers a more productive alternative, but it does offer us a choice in start menus.






Start Menu 7 features:

The list of menu items is alphabetically sorted, so you can easily find any program or command by its name.
Open any location on your PC with a single click. You can create, modify, and reorder items in Start Menu 7. So it's easy to create a list of the most used locations, popular directories, and virtual folders to access them with a single click.
There is a special Run button to access seldom used locations without adding them into menu.
Start Menu 7 has a customizable Power Buttons panel.
With Power Timer feature you can delay any of power management operations.

Start Menu 7 is free, but there is also a Pro version with additional features like tabbed menus.

Other Start Menu alternatives:
Classic Start Menu with Aero for Windows 7/Vista - Instant Fundas
Classic Shell brings back missing features to Windows 7 - Instant Fundas
Start++ makes Windows Vista/7 start menu more useful - Instant Fundas
SyMenu – Customizable start menu and program manager for USB drives - Instant Fundas
Menu Inventor - The categorized start menu for Windows - Instant Fundas

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