Classic Shell was around for years before finding fame following Microsoft’s ill-conceived idea to make Windows 8 without a Start button or menu. It remained popular even after the Start menu made an official return in Windows 8.x and then Windows 10.
How to put a Start Menu back on Windows 8/8.1. To download go to: http://www.classicshell.net/. Classic shell: Online photo editor: Already created start icon templates: http://www.4shared.com/zip/GP6F3397c. Below are some of the main features about Classic Shell. Classic Start Menu. With Classic Shell, the Classic Start Menu is a highly customizable replacement for the Windows start menu. The Classic Start Menu is a clone of the start menu from Windows 2000, XP and Vista that sadly is missing from Windows 7. It has a variety of advanced features. The classic start menu allows those. In this video we show you how to get the classic start menu from Windows 7 and prior versions on your Windows 10 system.
Development of Classic Shell was sadly ended in 2017, but not before the developer open sourced it. Classic Start arrived last month, picking up where Classic Shell left off, but potential copyright issues mean it is no more.
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But while Classic Start might be dead, you’ll be pleased to hear the project isn’t. It’s just been renamed. Not once, but twice.
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All we know about the name change so far is it was made to avoid copyright issues, and for a time it was going to be called NeoClassic-UI.
Thankfully that name change didn’t stick, and the new official title is Open-Shell.
Start button for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10; Toolbar and status bar for Windows Explorer; Caption and status bar for Internet Explorer; Note: As of December 2017, Classic Shell is no longer in active development. More details here Development has been picked up by volunteers on GitHub under the name Open Shell.
Work on the Start menu tool continues apace, although for now it still isn’t very different from the old Classic Shell.
You can download it from here.
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What do you think of the new name?
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