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Posted on September 20, 2020 at 21:15 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

BEST UTILITIES

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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