Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but were later removed. It has a customizable Start menu and Start button for Windows 7 and Windows 8, it adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features.
Features:
- Classic Start Menu (with skins)
- Classic Explorer
- Classic IE9
- Toolbar for Windows Explorer
- Classic copy UI
- Show file size in Explorer status bar
- Status bar
- Alt+Enter in the navigation pane
- New copy UI
- Additional Up Button
Download the Stable version: Classic Shell 3.6.8
What´s New in version 3.9.1 Beta:
- The All Programs tree can be rearranged with drag and drop
- The start button settings are applied immediately and you can see a preview of the button image in the settings dialog
- The start menu can use the native Windows 8.1 start button
- The Windows 8.1 setting to skip the Metro screen can be accessed through the Classic Shell settings
- New item in the main menu to open the start screen (Windows 8 and 8.1)
- New setting for the Windows 7 style to control the height of the main menu
- The installer uses better compression that reduces the download size by half
- Many bugfixes reported for the previous beta version
