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Hey guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to show you a few of the things that you can do with the search menu functionality in Start Menu Reviver. Now, Start Menu Reviver had search in version one, and it still has search in version two, it’s one of the great features of the product. It allows you to really quickly and easily get to an area of your computer, or an application, or a file that you’re looking for without having to do too much. You just open the start menu and start typing. One of the typical things you might want to do is look up the name of an application that you want to open, so if you start typing “Driver Reviver,” you will see a list of anything with “Driver Reviver” in the name will come up, including applications, settings, files on “My Computer.”

From these search results, one of the great things you can do is actually drag whatever this is straight into Start Menu Reviver. You can make a tile out of any of the options that you see here in the search results. It’s a really quick and easy way to look for something that you want to add as a tile. Another great thing that you can do with the search functionality is you can actually search the control panel or the settings are of your computer. If you’re looking for something like setting up a printer, you do a search for “printer” and it finds all of the settings on your computer that relate to “printer.” You can view devices and printers here, and it takes you to that control panel area in your computer so you can add a printer, or change a printer, or change the default printer.You can also do the same thing for Bluetooth. If you were to search for “Bluetooth,” you’ll see all of the settings that relate to Bluetooth on your computer.

There’s a significant amount of power in this search engine. You can search for files, you can search for your applications, you can search for settings on your computer, there’s a lot you can do here. I definitely encourage you to start just typing when you open Start Menu Reviver, rather than browsing through the menu and trying to find an application that way. I think you’ll find very quickly that doing it this way and you doing the search box is a very quick and easy way to get to what you’re looking for. If you have any questions or comments on this feature, I’d love to hear them. You can either comment on the comment section below, or you could just contact us through REviverSoft.com. Thanks very much for listening, and I hope to see you in a future video.

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Hi guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to show you a new feature that’s in Start Menu Reviver 2 that is something that we threw in there for people who might want to have a start menu that is a little bit more similar to the Windows 7 style start menu. Now, to show you what I’m talking about is probably best to jump straight into Star Menu Reviver and configure it. This is the standard view of Start Menu Reviver, you can see your tiles are all there. You’ve got your expanded menu, which you can get to by moving your cursor over to the edge of the menu.

To change this appearance of Start Menu Reviver so it looks more like a Windows 7 start menu, you go into the settings of Start Menu Reviver and then you choose the start menu area of the settings. Then you’ll see the expanded menu option within the settings area. Now by default it’s set up to automatically expand, that means that the expanded menu will automatically expand when you move your cursor over to the right hand edge of Start Menu Reviver. What you want to do is select “Replace the tile menu,” so the expanded menu is replacing the tile menu. Now if you save that option, you’ll see what I’m talking about here. The next time you open Start Menu Reviver, the tiles are no longer there. It just has a list of all of your applications, and the expanded menu has replaced the tile menu.

You can get to all your desktop applications, your modern applications, you can get to your documents. You can go to “My Documents,” or you can go to your “Recent Items,” so you can still have all that control. You can also still use the search functionality, so if you want to search for an application or you want to search for a document, you can still do that. You still have much of the functionality of Start Menu Reviver. It’s all there, you just don’t have access to the tiles, which is one of the reasons why a lot of people use Start Menu Reviver. If you wish to use it like this, the option is there for you. We’d love to hear your feedback on it, you can give that to us by leaving a comment in the comment section below or just contacting us through our website. Thank you for watching, we hope to get some great feedback from you on this feature. I look forward to seeing you in a future video. Thanks!

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Hi guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to show you some more advanced features that helps you really change the way Start Menu Reviver 2 looks. Now, the default installation of Start Menu Reviver looks something like this. You’ll see that we have some empty tiles, we have some preconfigured tiles based on some things that are installed on your computer, and we have a dark gray style charms bar here, and we’re using a blue color as our accent color or theme color. What I mean by that is you can see that the background color by default is blue for our tiles, and we also have a blue color here around our “All Apps” and our “Start Screen” icons. We have blue around your user profile picture, and we a have blue search button. We also use blue as our hover text color as well.

If you want to change that theme color, all you need to do is go to the settings area and choose “Start Menu Settings,” and then choose “Appearance.” You’ll see here that there’s an option for theme color. You can choose from a few pre-selected colors that we’ve chosen. You’ve got this red-ish pink-ish color here, you select that and you open the product again, you’ll see that these colors have changed. You can also choose any array of colors that you wish. If you click on this “Change” option, you’ll see a bit of a palette selector that gives you even more options. If you want to go one step further, you can choose “More Colors,” and there’s a full spectrum of the rainbow here to choose from. You can have any color imaginable, and use that as your theme color. I won’t get too much into that, that’s quite advanced, but if you know of a color that you wish you can choose the hue saturation, and different color characteristics for that color. It’s quite easy to do from that screen.

The other option you’ve got here is choosing a theme style. We have “Day” and “Night,” and Day just means it’s a lighter style theme which is what we use by default, and Night is a darker style theme. If I was to choose Night instead of Day and save that, the next time you open the start menu you’ll see that we’ve switched what we were doing before. Before we were using a light color behind the tiles, and were using a dark color on the charms area, so it’s just switched that view. It’s quite easy to change that back if you wish, it really depends on your personal preferences on what you’d like to use there. If you go back to Day there. The other thing you can choose, you can actually change the color of the navigation bar or the charms bar. By default it’s using whatever you’ve chosen in the Day or Night theme, but you can also change it to also use your theme color. If I was to choose this one and save it, you’ll see that the charms bar or navigation bar has been changed to the same color as your theme color.

The other option you’ve got to change as well, I’m going to change this back just to dark because I don’t want to have mine as too much red and pink on my start menu. The last option you’ve got to change is your navigation buttons. You can either have them set to be the same as your day or night theme style, or the same as your theme color. If I was to change that to my theme color and save it, then you’ll see that the icons that are in my navigation bar or charms bar have been changed to be the same as my theme color. Quite a lot of customization that’s available there, you can go into as much nit-picking as you will on the color that you’re using. You can configure this in a number of different ways. We like to allow people to have a lot of customization with their start menu, and really make it personal to them. We hope that you enjoy playing with this and really changing your style, making it to look however you wish to make it look.

If you have any questions or comments about this, we’d love to get your feedback from you. Just leave a comment below, or comment us through our website. Thank you for watching, and thank you for being a Start Menu Reviver user.

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Hey guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to show you how to make the expanded menu of Start Menu Reviver open by default, so that when you first open Start Menu Reviver the expanded menu is already there. It’s really easy to do, all you need to do is go into the settings of Start Menu Reviver, click “Start Menu Settings,” and then within the start menu area there’s an option for expanded menus. There’s a few options for what you want to do, what you can do with the expanded menu. “Automatically expands” means that when you move your cursor to the right hand edge of Start Menu Reviver, the expanded menu opens up. You can choose it to manually expand. “Manually expands” means you need to click on the “Apps” button to make it expand. I’ll show you what I mean there. If you save that setting and go back, you can see that when I move my cursor to the edge it no longer opens, but if you click on “All Apps” it opens. That’s what I mean by “manually expands.”

If you go back the next option is “Always shown.” “Always Shown” just means that as soon as you open the start menu the expanded menu is there. Some people like this because it gives them quicker access to more things within Start Menu Reviver. There you go, you get direct access to not only your tiles, but also to your expanded menu when you click on the start menu and open it up. I hope that is useful information to you guys. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments below, we love answering them and we love feedback. Thank you for watching, and thank you for being a Start Menu Reviver user.

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Hi you guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to show you some more advanced features of Start Menu Reviver and some more advanced settings; and specifically about the expanded menu in the Start Menu Reviver. Now the expanded menu is what we call the menu that you can open by either clicking all apps or you can also open it by just moving your cursor to the edge of Start Menu Reviver and they expand out from the normal area of Start Menu Reviver.

By default this shows desktop applications. You can also with your mouse click to see all applications, you can see modern applications, and then you can also click on this folder which takes you to the folder view and you’ve got a number of different options here as well. So you can view a Start Menu folder. Now the Start Menu folder is kind of the traditional hierarchy that you’d see in a Window’s 7 and prior start menu where you’ve got the applications sorted by folders.

You can also view My Documents, you can also see recent items, so items that you’ve recently opened. You can also choose custom which is where you can choose a folder that you show contents for in the expanded Start Menu; so there’s quite a bit of configuration that you can do here but you can also change what you see by default when you open the expanded menu.

To do this you go to the Settings option and choose Start Menu settings and then within the Start menu settings, there is actually an option here that says, “expanded menu shows:” and you can choose either apps view or folders view so I’m going to keep mine at apps view but if you choose folder view it will open the folder view. If you then choose “Advanced”, you can also choose, either in the apps view side or in the folder view side, what is shown there by default.

Right now it’s showing desktop applications as the default view within the apps view. If I’d like to see all applications, I can choose that and if I’d like to see recent items as my default then I choose that. Then, just save those options then the next time you open the expanded menu, you can see it’s now showing me all of my applications because I chose that as the default. Then if I go to the folder view, it’s showing me recent applications.

So, it’s very quick and easy to do that if you know where to look. Hopefully this video is helpful for you and if you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments below and I’ll be happy to answer them. Okay, thank you.

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Hey guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to teach you how to disable the Windows 8 start button when you’re using start, on your Reviver2. Now we leave the Windows 8 start button working by default, because we want to help people to still get to the start screen doing it the way they use to doing if they wish to. Some people have complained that, it’s a little bit annoying because if you move your mouse down to the corner here, it actually covers up the start with your Reviver button.

Which can be a little bit frustrating, sometimes you accidentally got a little bit too far past the stuff on your Reviver button. It’s very easy to disable, the way you do this is you open start menu reviver, you click on the settings, icon, and then click start menu settings. Then there’s this options here that says hide start screen corner hit, you select that, click save. Then voila the start button will no longer appear when you move your cursor down to the bottom corner. If you wish to turn it back on again, you just follow those steps in reverse.

Hopefully that was helpful, if you have any comments or questions please leave them in the comments below. Thanks guys.

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Hey guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft.
Today I’m going to show you how to change the size of Start Menu Reviver.
By default we have Start Menu in Reviver taking about this much. Which is roughly one seventh of the desktop. It’s a little bit larger than standard start menu from Windows 7, obviously not quite as big as the full on start screen from Windows 8, but we think a nice balance because it allows you still to use the tiles with the touch screen and gives you a lot of real estate to place applications in the start menu.
But there is a way to change the size of the start menu and this size you’re looking at right now is what we’d call medium size. To change it to large or small, you can click on the settings option within Start Menu Reviver. Then go to start menu settings and then you go to the start menu option and you’ll see here there is a setting for start menu size. You can see it’s set to medium. If you choose small and then save it. The next time you open Start Menu Reviver it’ll be significantly smaller than before. You can also make it large. If you go back to the start menu area again with the settings, change it to large, save that. Then the next time you open it, it’ll be quite a bit bigger than before.
Depending on your screen resolution or your preference for having clear visibility of the things that are within Start Menu Reviver you can set it to look however you wish. You might just wish to keep it at the medium setting. You’ve got a choice then.
If you’ve got any questions or feedback on the way we’ve done this, please leave a comment in the comment section below. Otherwise, just contact us through ReviverSoft.com. I look forward to seeing you in a future ReviverSoft video.
Thanks for watching.

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Hey guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft.
Today I’m going to teach you how to add a website as a tile in Start Menu Reviver 2. Now this one of the great features of Start Menu Reviver, something that you’re not traditionally used to having in a previous start menu from Windows 7 or before that. It’s very quick and easy to add a website as a tile.
All you need to do is find an empty tile, right click on it, click Add Tile and then this brings up the tiles property box. It allows you to change a number of different things about a tile. You can write a description for it, you can change the shortcut for it, you can change the color and you can even choose an image to represent that tile.
What I’m going to do is I’m going to create a tile for Twitter. In the shortcut box, just put in the URL that you wish to use, for Twitter, for example, Twitter.com. You can see here it already knows that I’ve entered a website. The icon [inaudible 00:00:52] saying it’s representing a website.
Now what I’m going to do is choose an image for this tile. I click on Change and then you have two options. You can either choose From Library, which is a library of tiles that we have included with Start Menu Reviver. You can scroll down, it’s in alphabetical order which helps. Look for T for Twitter. If I keep going further you see Twitter right there, so I can choose that as my tile. You can see how it’s going to look.
You can also choose to browse with the Explorer window in Windows. I’ve actually downloaded a Twitter icon I found on the internet. I can select that and click open. Then I can use that as my icon for Twitter.
You can also change the background color. Right now it’s set to blue, which I don’t think looks very good, I think it would look better as white. I’ve just changed that to white and I think that looks pretty good. All you need to do now is to save the settings, click on the check icon and then, there you go, you have a icon for Twitter.com.
You can do this for any of your websites you usually use like Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook. It’s very quick and easy.
If you have any questions, please leave them in the comments section below. I look forward to seeing you in a future video.
Thanks.

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One of the big changes of Windows 8 compared to previous versions of Windows is the introduction of the Start Screen. This is the ‘Full Screen Start Menu’ filed with tiles. Many people don’t care much for this Start Screen and would prefer to stay in the desktop environment but for those of you who wish to access it after installing Start Menu Reviver 2 here is how you can do it:

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Hey guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to teach you how to get to the Windows 8 start screen from start menu Reviver. While most people have installed start menu Reviver because they don’t like the start screen, or they wish to just get this start menu back in some way. A lot of people still would like to be how to get there, just because there is some lot of tiles that are really great to see, that access to a lot of different functionality.
In case you wish to do this, we make it very easy in start menu reviver there is a link here, straight the start screen, click on this the start screen comes up, and then you click back on the desktop and, voila it’s very quick, and easy. If you have any questions about how to do this, or you’re having any trouble with this, please leave a question or a comment, in the comment section below. Thanks for listening and hope to see you soon.

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Hi guys, Mark here from ReviverSoft. Today I’m going to teach you how to change the Start Menu Reviver to start button. Right now this the default start button, you use in Start Menu Reviver, we use it because it’s unique. Right away people know that this are the Start Menu Reviver. If you wish to change that, it’s quite easy to do. If you can just click on the button to open start menu Reviver, we need to select settings, and start menu settings and then go to start menu.

Then there’s an option here that say start menu button style. You can see this is style number 11, but there are 10 other styles here, all of which you can choose to use. If you like to choose to have kind of more traditional style which is I guess Windows like, you can choose that one and just save your option there. Right there you can see that the option has changed for the button.

You can select the different one if you wish, go back to the start menu settings and then say choose start number one, and then there you go, let’s change again. They all have a different hover state. When you move your mouse over them, they change color or they interact with your mouse, but really you can choose one of any the 11 styles that we have there. If you wish to see more styles, please leave a comment below, we love feedback and we like to try an improvement product if people think there’s ways that we can improve through changing the design and new feature.

Hope to see you in the future video, and thanks for using Start Menu Reviver.

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