Classic-Shell VS EverythingPowerToys

I'm using Win10 Pro, and I have no ads, no problems with unwanted apps, a sane start menu, and I run almost all non-ms software on top so microsoft's incompetence there is a nonissue. I can also replicate this on win11 but I don't see a reason to upgrade.

The way there is fairly simple, actually:

OOSU Shutup10: this removes pretty much all the annoyances. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Classicshell: Microsoft is never going to make a start menu that doesn't suck again, but others will. http://www.classicshell.net/

Everything search: classicshell comes with a pretty decent windows search replacement, but you should use this instead. It is so, so fast. https://www.voidtools.com/

StartIsBack -> Classic Shell

Check http://www.classicshell.net/ I'm using that since Windows 8.1 till now in Win 10, still works pertfectly even on low end laptops!

There are third party apps for doing so: http://www.classicshell.net/ http://www.classicstartmenu.com/

Let me tell you a secret. There's something called Classic Shell, and you can reskin your GUI of your task bar and start menu to fit your preference. It keeps me sane.

I've been using this since I switched to windows 10.http://www.classicshell.net it actually shows what you have on your drives instead of bing searches XD

IMO, Windows is just fine with Classic Shell. I don't know how people get by without it since Windows 8.

http://www.classicshell.net/

Run has plugins. I use https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys to add Everything.

PowerToys Run does seem to support some plug-ins though. I happily use https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys to use Everything for bettler local search for example.

Yep - https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys

But there is a community plugin (Please note this is not official from Microsoft): https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys