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Old July 17th 19, 10:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Win7 support:

Robert in CA wrote:
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Then I can play around with Windows 10 on the 780. I
tried scrolling back to find the name/link you gave
for running Windows 10 like Windows 7 if I choose to
but couldn't find it. Wasn't it called Startup something?

Thanks,
Robert

There are two main ones. Classic Shell is the best known -
http://www.classicshell.net/ - and is free; the other, which I've seen
called Start8 (or, facetiously, StarDate), costs about $4.95, and its
purchasers say is better. I find Classic adequate.

Note that they may not make it run _exactly_ like 7 (or XP - in CS, you
can choose, for the start menu at least, for it to look like XP, Vista,
or 7), just some of the way. [I'm pretty sure they can't stop the
"up"dates, for example.]
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Above the download button it says that
Classic Shell is no longer in active
development but I assume I could still
use it?

Robert


For validating the history of software, I like Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Shell

"Developed by Ivo Beltchev, it was first released in 2009.

Founder Ivo Beltchev announced the end of development in December 2017.

As of June 2018, another team has forked the code on GitHub
(https://github.com/passionate-coder/Classic-Start) and resumed development.

As of August 2018, the project has been renamed Open-Shell
and can be found he

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
"

So that link gets me source code.

Whereas this link finds the executable needed.

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/releases

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-S...up_4_4_131.exe

OpenShellSetup_4_4_131.exe 7,086,592 bytes

Notice that during download, the file comes from an AWS instance
and not from github.

Virustotal scan is clean.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/...f9fa/detection

It looks like this.

https://i.postimg.cc/8C76H4HT/Classic-Shell.gif

Paul
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