Power8 is not only an app designed to revive the Start Menu for Windows 8 PCs, it also provides options for launching the screensaver, locking the computer, restarting or shutting it down.
Moreover, it ensures easy access to the installed software, while also offering users the possibility to pin the apps they use most frequently (to launch them faster in the future).
What's New in This Release:
[new] Windows 8.1 Preview support including, but not limited to:
· hiding of MS start button when P8 works;
· P8's main button has minimum size now equal to 15 px (width of ShowDesktop button on W8);
· incorrect taskbar buttons positioning on exit;
· [new] Option to exchange the Start Menu with Search bar when taskbar is horizontal at the bottom of the screen. Benefit is that you have to less draw mouse from Power8 main button to Start Menu;
· [new] Simplified Chinese localization;
· [changed] Updated translations for all except de, es, fr, zh-TW;
· [fixed] Invalid focus after double Alt+Z;
· [fixed] Display of certain localized CPL items under non-Unicode environment (proper version of LoadString() used);
· [unconfirmed fix] Issue19: no feedback from issue reporter, but I hope the bug is fixed now. NullReferenceException when Admin Tools folder cannot be inferred from Start Menu;