Classic-Start
Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu (by passionate-coder)
Files
Building the best file manager for Windows (by files-community)
| Classic-Start | Files | |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 181 | |
| 30 | 32,363 | |
| - | 2.2% | |
| 0.0 | 9.8 | |
| almost 6 years ago | 1 day ago | |
| C# | ||
| - | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Classic-Start
Posts with mentions or reviews of Classic-Start.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-24.
- Open-Shell: A collection of utilities bringing back classic features to Windows
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Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
FYI, Classic Shell is discontinued, long live the https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
- the cycle continues...
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Two sides of people not being able to upgrade to Windows 11
Finally, to get a decent start menu and context menu back Explorer patcher and Shell work wonders. There is also Open shell if you want that classic Windows 7-10 look, but personally I think it looks dated in comparison. The Win11 start menu looks fine, it's just missing core functionality.
- Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – this is getting painful now
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Open-Shell-Menu is a collection of utilities that can return some of your favorite features to newer versions of Windows. Revel in the glory of classic-style features like a Start menu for Win 7, 8 & 10; tool and status bars for Windows Explorer; title and status bars for Internet Explorer. Hel_OWeen says, "I honestly have a hard time to navigate any Windows version > W2K without it."
- Microsoft is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu - The latest Windows 11 update adds promotional ‘notifications’ to bait users into using services like OneDrive.
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Steam dropping support for Windows 7/8/8.1 on January 1, 2024
if you don't like the new taskbar, start menu, or the new right click menu, you'll want to grab ExplorerPatcher, Open-Shell, and WinAero Tweaker which will effectively make 11 look and feel like 10 again. sometimes i genuinely forget that i'm using 11
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You can actually downgrade from Windows 11 back to 10 using the media creation thingy
Reddit is full of facts about them. I offer you one: how to fix classic shell: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
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Do you know of any software that can make the Windows 11 taskbar look like Windows 7?
ExplorerPatcher combined with Open-Shell
Files
Posts with mentions or reviews of Files.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
- Files
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DATABASE FOR FILTERING LOCAL FILES
This explorer replacement has tagging https://files.community/
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What is a piece of software that you need but doesn't exist?
I have the https://files.community/ app installed because I like the modern UI, but it's just too darn slow.
- Files: Open-source file manager for Windows
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Installation error
Dear u/Daddy_Spez So I was downloading from files.community and during the installation this error showed up ''App installation failed with error message: error 0x80070422: Opening the package from location Files.Package_2.5.11.0_x64_ARM64_Preview.msixbundle failed. (0x80070422)'' I tried enabling windows update service as told by youtube but that didnt work. Pls help
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Is windows 11 worth it?
This is everybody's regular scheduled reminder that files is just better than Explorer.
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Fluent File Explorer with address bar tabs
Is this a real app? If not, I recommend you to suggest these changes to https://files.community
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Why is File Explorer such a mess in Windows 11?
You'd probably like Files which more or less is explorer+
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Windows 11 Start menu ads look set to get even worse – this is getting painful now
I use Files instead of Explorer because of crap like this.
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Should I downgrade to Windows 10?
You could try a third-party alternative (The one I use is Files)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Classic-Start and Files you can also consider the following projects:
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
NanaZip - The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
qttabbar - QTTabBar is a small tool that allows you to use tab multi label function in Windows Explorer. https://www.yuque.com/indiff/qttabbar
BasicThemer2 - Apply the basic theme of Windows Vista-7 to Windows Vista-10, without disabling the DWM composition
MicaForEveryone - Mica For Everyone is a tool to enable backdrop effects on the title bars of Win32 apps on Windows 11.
ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
PersistentWindows - fork of http://www.ninjacrab.com/persistent-windows/ with windows 10 update
TaskbarX - Center Windows taskbar icons with a variety of animations and options.
vscode-vibrancy - Enable Acrylic/Glass effect for your VS Code.
bloatbox - ☑️🌠 Remove Bloatwares from Windows 10
winfetch - 🛠 A command-line system information utility written in PowerShell. Like Neofetch, but for Windows.