Thursday, December 15, 2011

re-enable classic start menu on windows server 8

I am not a big fan for the metro-style UI on windows 8, especially on windows server 8. Therefore the very first thing after I installed a windows 8 server. I try to turn off the metro-style UI and get the classic start menu back. Here is how:

In regedit,

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer

change value of RPEnabled from "1" to "0"

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