How to change the Start button on Windows 10

There are many tools to change the look of Windows 10, or just change the Start menu including the Start button. For example, we can change the Windows 10 interface like Windows 7, or bring the Start Windows 7 button to Windows 10 with a very simple way. StartIsBack is one of those tools, such as changing the Start menu interface, taskbar or changing the Start menu icon to whatever icon you want.

The software supports them to change the interface of the Start menu according to Windows 7 or Windows 8 with many different options for users to set up for the new interface. In particular, StartIsBack also allows you to use external icons to turn into Start menu icons. All the features of StartIsBack create a completely new look for Windows 10. The following article will guide you how to change the Start icon on Windows 10.

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Instructions for using StartIsBack to change Start menu

Step 1:

First, click on the link here to download the StartIsBack tool to your computer.

Then click on the exe installation file to install the tool.

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Step 2:

Next we will download the Start menu icon if you want to change the icon from the deviantart website. This site already has some icons sent by members. You can access this link here to download the icon.

Click the download icon to download the icon folder in rar format to extract. If you want to design your own icon, refer to the article How to create the Start button as you like.

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Step 3:

To open the StartIsBack folder on the computer, we access the path C: UsersuserAppDataLocalStartIsBack and then click the StartIsBackCfg file in the folder to open the setup interface.

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Step 4:

In the setting interface of the tool we click on Appearance to select the interface. Looking to the right of the Visual style section, there will be 4 different interface types. The first interface image will hold the Windows menu but can change the Start icon, the second interface image is Windows 7, the third image is the Windows 8 interface and finally the Start menu interface, taskbar and Start menu icon are changed. of Windows 10.

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Step 5:

To change the Start icon, click Visual style Windows 10 , then look down and click the plus icon to add the Start icon.

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Display the folder on your computer to navigate to the Start icon folder that you downloaded earlier. Click on the icon you want to change and then click the Open button below.

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Back to the interface of the software, click on the new icon and click Apply below to apply.

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As a result, we get a new Start icon as shown below.

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Step 6:

If you want to adjust the color of the Taskbar and adjust the Taskbar's opacity, in the StartIsBack configuration interface, check the Use custom taskbar coloring box and look to the right horizontal bar to adjust the opacity. We see the Taskbar preview above before clicking Apply.

If you want to change the color of the Taskbar , click the black square icon .

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Choose a color for the Taskbar and then click Apply to apply.

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The result of the Taskbar has changed color as shown below.

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Step 7:

If you want to adjust the interface of the Start menu , you use the remaining 3 Visual styles. Then there are more options as shown below.

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At that time, the whole Start menu interface will change as shown below.

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Step 8:

In case you want to delete the Start menu icon added to the tool, you have to open the Orbs folder as shown below.

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Click to delete the Start icon added to the tool and restart the StartIsBack setup interface.

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Step 9:

If you want to return to the old Start menu interface , click Visual style Windows 10 again , click the familiar Start icon and adjust the Taskbar to black again , click Apply and you 're done.

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With the StartIsBack tool, the Windows 10 interface has a lot of options, new settings to change as you like. Each type of Start menu display has different changes.

I wish you successful implementation!

Samuel Daniel

Update 29 November 2019