{"id":1641,"date":"2007-06-27T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/use-the-vista-start-menu-in-windows-xp\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:52:44","slug":"use-the-vista-start-menu-in-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-the-vista-start-menu-in-windows-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Use the Vista Start menu in Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1640\" title=\"Windows Vista logo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/06\/vista-start-button.gif\" alt=\"Windows Vista logo\" align=\"left\" \/>We&#8217;ve already seen a few Vista themes for Windows XP but none of them included the new Vista start menu, which enables you to find and open files and applications just by entering the first few letters of their names. Now you can have that on Windows XP with ViStart, a Vista start menu clone that replaces the standard XP menu and adds that same Vista functionality. It&#8217;s just the perfect complement for your Vista themed XP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve already seen a few Vista themes for Windows XP but none of them included the new Vista start menu, which enables you to find and open files and applications just by entering the first few letters of their names. Now you can have that on Windows XP with ViStart, a Vista start menu clone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/use-the-vista-start-menu-in-windows-xp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Use the Vista Start menu in Windows XP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337507,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/337507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}