Convert Windows XP Start Menu into Windows Vista style using Vista Start Menu Emulator

Posted on December 14, 2007 at 7:35 am

Still running Windows XP? Well if you’re not interested in converting your entire Windows XP operating system into Windows Vista using a program like Vista Transformation Pack, you can use another small program to simply emulate the Windows Vista Start Menu on Windows XP.

The Vista Start Menu Emulator tries to take the normal Windows XP style Start Menu and makes it into the cool looking Aero version you see in Windows Vista.

It not only tries to emulate the Windows Vista style in terms of looks, but also in terms of functionality. It includes a search box at the bottom whereby you can quickly launch applications on your computer and it also loads up start folder items in the same pane rather than having them expand out as it does in Windows XP.

The program was released at the beginning of the year and it seems like a lot of people had some major issues with it since it was in beta. It was apparently very unstable and crashed all the time. However, it’s now in it’s third and final release and seems to have been heavily revamped and fixed up.

You can also configure a good number of properties for your Vista style Start Menu, including the language, pinned programs, search options, miniapps, and skin.

So if you’re stuck on Windows XP or simply don’t want to upgrade yet, try this nitfty little program out and see how you like it. If you’re looking for a quick way to launch applications in Windows and don’t really care about the looks, you can try out a very good freeware application called Launchy.

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7 Responses to “Convert Windows XP Start Menu into Windows Vista style using Vista Start Menu Emulator”

Haris said on : December 14th, 2007 at 11:29 am

Cool app! Will try it out.

Madhur Kapoor said on : December 15th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

I used a similar one called Vista Start Menu

Shankar Ganesh said on : December 17th, 2007 at 5:25 am

Good one. I’ve tried some months before, but it took up a lot of RAM. May be I should give it a try again

Nirmal said on : December 18th, 2007 at 5:56 am

Looks cool, but again will it become a memory hog?

Javid said on : December 21st, 2007 at 3:35 am

Hello ,i have installed it,but its not working,only start menu comes up,and also i dont want it and i dont know how to rmove it,so please help me to remove it,please mail me back,
thanks

Sarfraz said on : May 1st, 2008 at 12:45 am

That’s really cool man!!!

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