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Freeware Spotlight — Open-Shell
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By Deanna McElveen
December 3, 2017 — a sad day.
That was when ace developer Ivo Beltchev announced the end of future development on Classic Shell (more info), the wildly popular freeware program that made the Start menus in Win8 and Win10 look and work like the familiar and comfortable Windows 7 menu.
Luckily for all Classic Shell users, a group of talented developers has created the Open-Shell project. They dusted off Classic Shell, rubbed in some polish, and rolled it out as Open-Shell-Menu (aka Open-Shell).
Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.37.0 (2020-09-21).
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Classic Shell developer hangs up his hat, turns the project to open source
Ivo Beltchev, who started Classic Shell in 2009, announced yesterday that he’s giving up on the project, releasing the source code to SourceForge.
Obituary in Computerworld Woody on Windows.