Windows Xp like start menu in windows 7 ?

I bet you might have landed here searching for an settings/options to revert back to xp style classic menu, though windows always came with options like new style and classic style startmenu this was however discontinued with windows vista and upper versions of OS, people who migrate from windows xp to windows 7 always find the new windows 7 startmenu crappy, inconvenient and mess because its very difficult to locate programs in thanks to the genius geeks in microsoft for designing this kind off startmenu.

Is there a option to switch back to classic menu in windows 7?
a simple one word answer is "NO", but there is some third party applications which can come to your rescue which modifies your existing Start menu to look like windows xp like menu see below pics

though there are many third party menus below are two of them one is paid and other is demo version
Startmenu 7 Free
Windows 7 Classic Start Menu Demo

I think Microsoft should include default classic menu in Windows 7 in the next service pack atleast since the new Windows 7 start menu really sucks