Classic-Start
Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu (by passionate-coder)
bloatbox
☑️🌠 Remove Bloatwares from Windows 10 (by builtbybel)
| Classic-Start | bloatbox | |
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| 34 | 29 | |
| 30 | 1,693 | |
| - | 0.2% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 5 years ago | 3 months ago | |
| PowerShell | ||
| - | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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
bloatbox
Posts with mentions or reviews of bloatbox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.
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Setting up Windows
Bloatbox
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Two sides of people not being able to upgrade to Windows 11
If you are already on 11 and are frustrated with how it works, Bloatbox, Win Utility and Shutup10++will get rid of most bloatware, make essential tweaks to make it usable for productivity and turn off Microsoft's overeach. Just make sure to watch a few tutorials first as you can quite easily fuck up your install if you don't know what you are doing.
- I can’t make this go away someone pls help me
- What are the recommended steps/ ISO images to install Windows 11 without bloatwares and with optimized setting? I'm planning on re-install Windows 11 on Asus UX435E notebook
- Help to download microsoft apps back
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Anyone else have Microsoft Edge randomly appear recently? Get off my desktop!
Bloatbox bloatware remover for Windows 10
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The Windows 10 weather, stock and news widget just causally pulled 24GB of my system RAM...
Bloatbox deletes bloat on windows 10. Just be sure to take a look at the apps it'll delete before doing it, you may be using stuff like OneNote.
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Can we please get rid of the articles from the "WIDGETS" tab? Or get an option to disable them.
This thing? https://github.com/builtbybel/bloatbox
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After running like 6 different debloat scripts...700MB of RAM on idle!
For those asking for the scripts, here they are: Remove preinstalled applications Remove preinstalled applications (this one has GUI) Set services to manual (Can also remove applications) Uninstall MS Store Disable Windows Defender As my people in the comments have pointed out, don't run all of them unless you want to break your system later on.
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Is it worth removing the built in Windows 10 crap ( weather, xbox,onedrive, maps etc...) or just disable telemetry and live with these useless apps for me?
https://github.com/builtbybel/bloatbox https://github.com/builtbybel/privatezilla https://christitus.com/debloat-windows-10-2020/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Classic-Start and bloatbox you can also consider the following projects:
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
windows-11-debloat - Script to optimize your installation of Windows 11.
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.
BasicThemer2 - Apply the basic theme of Windows Vista-7 to Windows Vista-10, without disabling the DWM composition
Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller - Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.
ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
privatezilla - 👀👮🐢🔥Performs a privacy & security check of Windows 10
TaskbarX - Center Windows taskbar icons with a variety of animations and options.
Winpilot - Your everyday Windows companion
hyperterm - A terminal built on web technologies
Ventoy - A new bootable USB solution.
Classic-Start vs RetroBar
bloatbox vs windows-11-debloat
Classic-Start vs ThisIsWin11
bloatbox vs Windows10Debloater
Classic-Start vs BasicThemer2
bloatbox vs Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller
Classic-Start vs ExplorerPatcher
bloatbox vs privatezilla
Classic-Start vs TaskbarX
bloatbox vs Winpilot
Classic-Start vs hyperterm
bloatbox vs Ventoy