From the same developer that brought you Belle Extra Buttons comes the somewhat cumbersomely named Belle Extra Taskbars/StartMenu, though at least the title gives you some idea of what the utility does. In practice, it's a useful always-around shortcuts pane, plus a healthy (or should that be unhealthy?) dose of Windows XP Start menu. See below for screens and comments.
Here's Belle Extra Taskbars/StartMenu in action on my E7, first looking at the extensive set-up dialog...
Best start with the defaults, though not everything seemed to work as advertised - try as I might, I couldn't get the utility to work on the Belle Refresh lockscreen; (right) setting the four main shortcuts are probably first order of the day - all installed apps are up for grabs here.
In use, a swipe up from the bottom of the screen (Meego/Blackberry 10-style) gives you the basic bar with Windows-like Start button and four shortcuts - tapping the button then gives you this Windows XP-like app selector and control options; (right) if music is playing you can also toggle on this 'Music view', wherein the toolbar icons change to playback controls.
Toggling between Music view and the normal shortcuts view is done by tapping on the user icon or the musical note - the photo thumbnail switches to the music's album art, which is quite neat.
What would be really useful here would be if the utility could log which applications I used most and presented them, Windows Vista/7-like, at the top of the scrolling list - as it is, the list remains staunchly full and resolutely alphabetical, so it's not much use on a fully loaded smartphone.
Comments welcome, though. You can buy Belle Extra Taskbars/StartMenu for £1 here in the Nokia Store.