First, you can choose what you want the button itself to look like. Stylistic options: Start Menu 8 lets you completely customize your new Start button. Start Menu 8 resurrects that old interface to make navigation familiar again. In Windows 8, Microsoft decided to do something new, but the truth is that it is hard to adjust to something new after so long. ProsĪ familiar interface: The Start button and menu has been a mainstay of Windows since Windows '95. Start Menu 8 is a Windows utility that bypasses Windows 8's tile-based Start screen interface, re-introducing the familiar desktop UI and Start menu from previous versions of Windows.