Classic Shell
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Classic Shell is free software that improves your productivity, enhances the usability of Windows, and empowers you to use the computer the way you like it.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Discontinued
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- Windows
Discontinued
The developer announced that Classic Shell will be no longer developed because Windows 10 is updated too frequently and because Microsoft is making more difficult to customize Windows: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=8147 Last version, 4.3.1, released in August 2017, can be still downloaded from the official website, together with the source code.
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For me, this is the best alternative so far. I'm still using it without issues and will continue using it until it dies.
And it died. After so many Windows updates it doesn't work correctly. Two years ago I replaced Classsic Shell by Start Menu X.
Classic Shell replacement is Open Shell, please look it up here on alternativeto.net Open Shell has the same features as Classic Shell and you can even "upgrade" from Classic Shell to Open Shell almost seamlessly Open Shell is absolutely free and open source, and (at the time of this writing) is in active development It's truly the best replacement for Classic Shell
Classic shell will continue it's life under the name open menu and is now open source on github.
correction, it's name is "open shell menu" https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
I even use it on Windows 7 because you can cusromise your Start Menu so much more!
Discontinued, But still working ;)
This beautiful software is a must have to Windows 10. I really don't know why Microsoft keep messing with the Start Menu. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
Lately, my explorer.exe process was hanging a lot. Every few minutes I had to restart the process on both my Laptop and Desktop computer. After doing some software diagnostics, I found out the Classic Shell was the culprit.
Fortunately it wasn't the Classic Menu functionality that was messing with the process, but the Classic Windows Explorer features.
Just reinstall the software and disable the installation of the Windows Explorer features. It might still be remnants of the old installation, so you might need to remove some settings, manually.
Just grab a little piece of software called Autoruns from Sysinternals, ran it as an Administrator and disabled all the features that weren't related with the Classic Shell Classic Menu features. Filter for "classic" and disable all the options with "Adds classic Windows Explorer features" in the description. Restart the computer, and all done.