Improve your productivity and user experience with Open Shell, a Windows start menu alternative for Windows 10. Bringing back the classic start menu style, OpenShell is a fork and continuation of the project Classic Shell.

Features

  • Classic Start Menu for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10
  • Toolbar for Windows Explorer
  • Classic copy UI (Windows 7 only)
  • Show file size in Explorer status bar
  • Title bar and status bar for Internet Explorer

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License

MIT License

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User Reviews

  • I have used this app since the early days of Classic and have it running on Windows 7, 10, and 11. It can be quirky occasionally as the developers try to stay ahead of Microsoft changes. I appreciate their generous efforts to keep this application alive.
  • I have used OpenShell and before that ClassicShell for many years, on Win 7 and Win 10. The program has been invaluable as it allows me to customise my Start menu to my preference. I have never experienced any stability issues. I have never required support.
  • I also hate the Windows 10 menu. Therefore, I happy to have found Open-Shell which gives me back a perfectly working menu in Windows 7 style.
  • One-word review for this program: Hell. On Windows 10 at least. Good luck using any project setting if you have more than one monitor. It will freeze everything on your computer, near every time, and force a lengthy process restart. This is NOT a stable program and it will give you trouble until you figure out this is what was causing it. Turn off this program if you're using it, and don't install it until the stability is bulletproof. As noble and excellent its original intentions, the program in its current state causes more problems than it solves.
  • Best of the best for fixing Windows!
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Windows

Registered

2019-11-03