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  • EN: Absolutely needed tool if you organize your programs in Start Menu by thematic sub-folders (which is natural for any really sentient being). The best Start Menu that I know - I couldn't bear Win7 if not this miracle. Health and happiness to you guys! RU: Абсолютно необходимая вещь, если вы организуете ваши программы в меню Пуск в подпапках по темам (что естественно для любого действительно разумного существа). Лучшее из известных мне меню Пуск - я бы не вытерпел Win7, если бы не это чудо. Здоровья и счастья вам, ребята!
  • Works great for me, thanks.
  • Just what I needed, to work as efficient with the keyboard as under any previous Windows version. THANK YOU!!!
    3 users found this review helpful.
  • Awesome to make classic menu for win 7
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • The ClassicShell start menu lets you create a start menu that works the way you want, with exactly the items you want. You can eliminate the dead wood, and you can get back the functionality that Microsoft destroyed. Every Windows 8 system should have it.
  • The program is very helpful for those who have updated the operating system with windows XP to Windows 7
    2 users found this review helpful.
  • Amazing that Microsoft couldn't do something so fantastically GOOD and so OBVIOUSLY needed. It makes Win 8 useable.. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
  • Classic Shell is the first tool you should install on a new Windows 8 machine. It makes Windows 8 usable. The source forge project Description unfortunably misses to mention that Classic Shell is most useful für Windows 8.
  • without this software Windows 8 would not be bearable. Great software!
  • Excellent! Thanks for making this, Windows 8 is KILLING ME. So happy to have my start button back, thank you thank you thank you!!!
  • This program is fantastic! It almost makes Windows 8 livable! I recommend this program to eveyone, but one or two W8 diehards tell me it is crap, DON'T BELIEVE IT! I can add this to my motion 3D wallpaper and my Keyboard LEDs. I feel like I'm back home.
  • Greatest invention since sliced bread! It makes Windows... USEABLE! :D ~Cindy! :) ..
  • After download windows alarm “This program not normally downloaded” Version ClassicShellSetup_3_6_6.exe Tried to install and alarm said “This program may harm your computer” Had to select "More Information" to install Classic shell?? Window generated the alarm not my antivirus, I am using “Panda” as my antivirus. Just thought I would let you know.
  • First I want to say, it's a shame Microsoft forcing Windows 8 users to install such a tool. Who really wants to work on a Desktop-PC with that catastrophic Metro-Thingy? Not to mention how ugly it looks like, it's impossible to manage/launch hundreds or thousands of programs in a rational and logical way using tiles only. So I tested many different Startmenu-Tools with Windows 8, in fact every I have found on the internet - free and paid. And there's no doubt that Classic Shell is my personal winner!!! (the only real competitor *imho* was Stardock Start8 which isn't free but only 5$)
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Thank you so much. I love you.
  • Really good app,
  • I would definitely recommend this software if you are used to Windows XP and the like. Made navigating Windows 8 a breeze.
  • beautiful start menu
  • It does what it is supposed to do. However, I for one would like the option for the menu to act more like Windows 7 menu does. Windows 8 makes this app extremely necessary, and I think many people who liked the way Windows 7 menu worked would find the additional option useful. This would make this app a viable alternative to the closed source start8 by stardock.
  • I could not get used to the Windows 7 start interface. All the configuration in the world could not keep the Windows 7 start interface from being awkward, clumsy and ill suited for the task. Classic shell has allowed me to configure the machine to my liking not to the liking of Microsoft.
  • Good app. Useful, simple and easy to install.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Classic Shell - for those who miss the old interface )
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Perfect...! I would be lost without it in win 8 ty makers ! Joop
  • very powerful tool as for system administrator then end-user!
  • Magnificent! I played around with Metro for a while in W8 Pro and, though old school (I go back to pre MS-DOS days), I got used to it quickly. Some people have trouble adapting to new things; fortunately, I don't. However, there are two things I hate about Metro: 1. It's tedious to get at the list of Programs while in desktop. Desktop toolbar requires 2 additional steps of drill down to open a program (yeah, I know, big deal.. but it's still annoying) and scrolling horizontally in Metro (even with small icons) is also tedious and.. annoying. 2. It's forced on us. Microsoft should have at least provided the option for a normal Start Menu in the PRO version! Who cares about live tiles?!? I'd rather kill Metro and have those resources freed. Now that I've installed this utility and have my normal Start Menu back, I feel at home again and have no desire to experience Metro again -- unfortunately, we can't kill it completely.. I love how there are so many options for customization in this utility! I've played with most of them and haven't had probs. It looks good on old school CRT's, in case anyone's wondering (I prefer disabling font smoothing in options). The Skip Metro feature works perfectly -- unlike another bypass program I tried which killed all my apps, requiring a full reinstall of W8 Pro (none of the fixes I found online worked)! I was thus hesitant to try the bypass function of this program, but now I'm glad that I did. I also don't notice a delay to desktop (no hint of Metro appears, as is common with other bypasses), which is nice. According to SF, fewer than 132k people out of tens of millions who hate Metro have downloaded this utility (3.6.5 anyway). WTF? You need to work harder to get the word out. I'll do my part by telling others about it.
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