Classic-Start
Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu (by passionate-coder)
TaskbarX
Center Windows taskbar icons with a variety of animations and options. (by ChrisAnd1998)
| Classic-Start | TaskbarX | |
|---|---|---|
| 34 | 130 | |
| 30 | 7,625 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 1.1 | |
| over 5 years ago | 3 months ago | |
| Visual Basic .NET | ||
| - | MIT License |
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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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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
TaskbarX
Posts with mentions or reviews of TaskbarX.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-28.
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New Wallpaper
You can download TaskbarX here (For windows tray)
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sword portal thing:)
You might wanna check out TaskbarX for your Taskbar
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Explorer crashing on startup. Similar issues on desktop as well
there is an issues on git related to that maybe it can help you, https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX/issues/442
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Any working alternative for TranslucentTB?
If you want to know more alternatives, I recommend you to take a look at TaskbarX and TaskbarXI.
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Is there a way to make my taskbar look like this?
Yeah, TaskbarX is really nice. Works with Windows 10 and 11.
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My current desktop
Taskbarx rainmeter skin(used for center dock icons):https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
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How do i remove these empty spaces? i'm using taskbarX on Win10
Issue
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Windows 11 runs on fewer than 1 in 6 PCs
You can probably do this with Windows 10 using TaskBarX[0].
[0] https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
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"Musical Anomaly." My first Rainmeter Suite! Critiques are welcome.
Oh! I can't forget about TaskbarX!
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Ultra minimal rainmeter suite
Taskbar: https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Classic-Start and TaskbarX you can also consider the following projects:
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
TranslucentTB - A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
RoundedTB - Add margins, rounded corners and segments to your taskbars!
BasicThemer2 - Apply the basic theme of Windows Vista-7 to Windows Vista-10, without disabling the DWM composition
rainmeter - Desktop customization tool for Windows
ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
CenterTaskbar - Center Windows Taskbar Icons
bloatbox - ☑️🌠 Remove Bloatwares from Windows 10
More-Icons-unFold-Rainmeter - 💻 In this repository you will be able to find different icons of the type "unFold" for Rainmeter.
hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies
T-Clock - Highly configurable Windows taskbar clock
Classic-Start vs RetroBar
TaskbarX vs TranslucentTB
Classic-Start vs ThisIsWin11
TaskbarX vs RoundedTB
Classic-Start vs BasicThemer2
TaskbarX vs rainmeter
Classic-Start vs ExplorerPatcher
TaskbarX vs CenterTaskbar
Classic-Start vs bloatbox
TaskbarX vs More-Icons-unFold-Rainmeter
Classic-Start vs hyperterm
TaskbarX vs T-Clock