ClassicBar
ClassicBar makes yours Windows 11 Shell Simpler by replacing your modern Windows taskbar with the classic Windows taskbar layout. (by Lixkote)
BasicThemer2
Apply the basic theme of Windows Vista-7 to Windows Vista-10, without disabling the DWM composition (by Ingan121)
ClassicBar | BasicThemer2 | |
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2 | 5 | |
10 | 128 | |
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10.0 | 0.0 | |
over 1 year ago | over 1 year ago | |
C# | C# | |
Apache License 2.0 | 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.
ClassicBar
Posts with mentions or reviews of ClassicBar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-22.
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average windows 11 desktop
ModernBar
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Windows 11 Pro 22H2 (mostly) transformed into Windows Vista
Use this instead since it does a better at recreating the vista taskbar
BasicThemer2
Posts with mentions or reviews of BasicThemer2.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-22.
- How the heck did I do this?!
- Is there a config flag or CSS rule to force Firefox to use the Windows 7 style window controls? (I have FF102ESR, Win10)
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I somehow got Windows Basic theme with working Aero animations on Windows 10 after a lag (only affects Acrobat Reader)
basicthemer2
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average windows 11 desktop
Software Used: Basic Themer 2
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Nothing to see here, just your average Windows 7 machine
I would also like to thank the makers of the Basic and Classic themes as well as this post for helping me left-allign the title bar.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ClassicBar and BasicThemer2 you can also consider the following projects:
ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more
Classic-Start - Renamed to NeoClassic-UI then renamed to Open-Shell - https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
WinCenterTitle - WinCenterTitle is a simple tool that allows you to center align the text in Windows 10 titlebars, the same way it was in Windows 8, 8.1, or even 3.1.