Classic-Start
Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu (by passionate-coder)
RetroShare
RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform. (by RetroShare)
| Classic-Start | RetroShare | |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 32 | |
| 30 | 1,677 | |
| - | 0.8% | |
| 0.0 | 9.4 | |
| almost 6 years ago | 18 days ago | |
| C++ | ||
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
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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Free Tech Tools and Resources - Curl Conversion, Security Training, Permissions Reporting & More
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
RetroShare
Posts with mentions or reviews of RetroShare.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.
- Retroshare
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Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
Reminds me of retroshare, which is fully peer to peer and anonymizing. Anyone here try it before? Meant for closed communities and not open/global so a different niche I suppose
https://retroshare.cc/
- RetroShare 2023
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Looking for a way to directly sent files over the internet, P2P
Retro Share https://retroshare.cc/ free and open source.
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Decentralised blockchain messaging apps
Retroshare via Tor/I2P
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The Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing
Retroshare also offers encrypted connections that meeting hosts and participants can create a network of computers on and layer distributed services on top of it, like discussion forums, text-based chat, and email. This P2P platform is free, open-source, and fully decentralized, designed to provide maximum security and anonymity. It's available to Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows users.
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How to share my local 1TB storage with my brother living abroad ?
I think you can do that with https://retroshare.cc/
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Utopia P2P - What do you think?
Utopia has similarities to RetroShare, but RetroShare has more capability: portable, forums, channels, boards, Tor/I2P.
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Anti-consumerism software
For messaging, retroshare is really good, it looks like an old forum messenger, but is free to download. its completely ad free.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Classic-Start and RetroShare you can also consider the following projects:
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
Freenet - Freenet REference Daemon
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
GNUnet - GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet. https://git.gnunet.org/
BasicThemer2 - Apply the basic theme of Windows Vista-7 to Windows Vista-10, without disabling the DWM composition
ZeroNet - ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
Synapse - Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.
TaskbarX - Center Windows taskbar icons with a variety of animations and options.
Ring - This (mirror) repo groups all parts of Jami.
bloatbox - ☑️🌠 Remove Bloatwares from Windows 10
Mumblecop