ViStart, i'm not sure if it works or not, on wine, since it's a Windows program, it doesn't work natively on Linux. But even if it works, it would be useless since everything in that kind of "Start Menu" is in a "virtual" (not really virtual, but kind of) windows machine by wine, it isn't compatible at all with everything on your linux desktop. So don't even try using it, using it on a linux desktop is... ridiculous to me ^^!
Don't try to get a taskbar or startmenu like windows 7 on linux, it's impossible because nobody would bother to do it, linux should be linux, not a windows clone.
If you don't like the things of your default ubuntu 11.10 (Unity), you could switch to another desktop evironment to get new tools, new widgets, new taskbar, runner, launcher, ect... Like a completely different OS (but actually linux anyways). There are many environments out there for you to choose: KDE, GNOME 3, , Enlightenment, Cinnamon, Xfce, LXDE... That's the power of freedom.
Assuming this is vistart, it is a closed-source Windows program, and won't work natively in Linux. You could try wine, though.
– Eroen – 2012-03-26T22:03:13.473