Mar 31, 2025 · I have made a Windows XP start button by simply taking screenshots of the three button states, and putting them together. I am below amateur at graphics editing and even though I set the background to "transparent" it still blocked out the unused portion as white.

Apr 1, 2025 · Here is a compilation of featured Windows XP style buttons on the forum. To download a button, right click the image -> Save image as/Save picture as. Then open Start Menu Settings and go to the 'Start Menu Style' tab, and pick that image. If I missed any(or you create a new one), feel free to post it here!

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Simple Start Buttons A custom start button requires an image that contains 3 distinct parts - one for the normal state of the button, one for the hot state (when the mouse is over the button), and one for the pressed state. The 3 parts must be the same size. By default the width of the start button equals the width of the image.

Dec 6, 2024 · Windows XP Start Button with classic logo: superpacman256. 7. 83521. Fri May 29, 2020 3:04 am. juniper7 Change Start Menu Program Icon: sigrossman. 1. 64447. Tue May 28, 2019 7:38 pm. Jcee windows whistler fake start button: Spark. 3. 73567. Wed May 22, 2019 1:47 pm. juniper7 8.1 Start Button Icon on Transparent Background at 125% Size

Mar 29, 2025 · Now that's a real classic logo that has not changed much from Windows 3.1 to Windows 2003. Almost all the official start buttons never had the right-angled image, probably because it takes up more space.

Oct 5, 2013 · You have a built-in option in Classic Start Menu for setting a "Classic" button which accepts an ICON (*.ico) file for the image it shows. Select the Classic button and pick an icon you want. Your image shows that you are looking for the XP Classic button but you mention the original Windows 95 button so I have attached both although these are ...

May 24, 2014 · thank you for making this pack first off. id like to pose a question though. when implementing one or any of these icons as the new start menu icon, the size of the image was enormous. im glad that the detail is there for the smoothness of the image but i only saw one option for changing the size of the image in the configuration of the classic shell menu, which …

Apr 2, 2025 · By default the horizontal width of the image determines the size of the button. You can override that by entering a custom size. Size 0 means automatic (i.e. use the image width) You can find many custom start button images in the Start buttons section of the Classic Shell forum. You can also find lots of Start buttons on other websites.

Mar 18, 2025 · Please, keep discussions on topic and in the right forum. The start menu topics go into the Classic Start Menu forum, etc. This makes it easier for people to locate topics they are looking for. If you get a satisfactory response to your question, please mark the topic as "solved". Click the green √ button in the bottom-right of the post.