There were three things I liked about the start menu: 1. The ability to pin my frequently-used items manually. 2. Showing the recently-used apps that I haven'

There were three things I liked about the start menu: 1. The ability to pin my frequently-used items manually. 2. Showing the recently-used apps that I haven't gotten around to pinning. 3. The way it arranged hundreds of app icons in a halfway-memorable heirarchy. (Yes, I know that makes me a small minority "power user", but Windows had always catered to us PUs.) I never, ever, used search and don't like having to use it in Win8. The background search service had such a bad habit (at least through Vista) of churning my disk drive at the worst possible moment that I disabled it wherever possible.