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Help in Windows 8 is missing the old Start menu, how can i activate it?

Only for Windows-8 Developer Preview not for Windows-8 Consumer Preview and other Win 8 or 8.1 versions!

For other Win-8: download Classic Shell (start button menu)

To activate the old Start menu in Windows-8 change the registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
and set the value RPEnabled from "1" to "0". (... see Image-2)

Or, please start the cmd.exe [Win-Logo]+[R] cmd.exe + [ENTER]
and type the following command:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" /v RPEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d "0"

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C:\Users\Nenad>reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer" /v RPEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d "0"
Value RPEnabled exists, overwrite(Yes/No)? yes
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Users\Nenad>

(Image-1) Activate the Start menu in Windows 8

(Image-2) Activate at Windows-8 the Classic Start menu

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