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I saw mentions of Classic Shell recently and since I am attempting
navigate Win 10 and would prefer a Win 7 type screen I started to download Classic Shell. It seems that Classic Shell has been rename as Open Shell, perhaps with some modifications. Which one to use is the question. Opinion anyone? Thanks |
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southwalker wrote:
I saw mentions of Classic Shell recently and since I am attempting navigate Win 10 and would prefer a Win 7 type screen I started to download Classic Shell. The newsgroup for Windows 10 is over at ---. ..------------------------------------------' '--- alt.comp.os.windows-10 It seems that Classic Shell has been rename as Open Shell, perhaps with some modifications. Which one to use is the question. Opinion anyone? The last release of Classic Shell was 17 months ago. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Shell It was abandoned. However, its code was dumped at Github (https://github.com/coddec/Classic-Shell) to allow others to continue development (which has not happened). If you read the classicshell.net web site, right at the top of the News pane it says "Dec 3rd, 2017 - Classic Shell is no longer actively developed." The "here" link points to: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/vi...php?f=4&t=8147 Back then, the author was using Sourceforge.net as his code repository. Don't know why he also put it on Github; however, Sourceforge is overused (or underresourced, however you want to look at it), so it can be overly slow at times. Version 4.3.1 (Dec 4, 2017) is the latest version at both repositories. According to the Wikipedia article, someone has picked up development of the Github version yet the released version there is still at the 17-month old 4.3.1. You have to go to the Github page for the Open Shell project (https://github.com/Open-Shell) which is a fork of Classic Shell. Yet there is no compiled release available at the Github Open Shell project site -- until you login. After logging in (I've used them before so had an account) then I saw something show up in the repository. Classic Shell's latest version is 4.3.1. Open Shell is at 4.4.131. As for the later Open Shell version, there are hardly any changes yet. All it mentions for the latest release of Open Shell a New: - Re-branded to Open-Shell - Automatic settings import from Classic-Shell Fixes: - Cleanup of the accessibility COM objects (#53) So, for now, it doesn't matter which product you use since Classic Shell and Open Shell are the same. Just remember that Open Shell may get new code (if development really proceeds on it) and new code means perhaps fixes of old bugs but also new bugs. Just remember that you cripple yourself in using the same OS on different computers. Instead of learning the new UI, you continue to rely on the one UI in the new OS. When you are using the new OS on someone else's computer (work, friend, family, library, etc), you won't be trained in the new UI. You'll have the old UI in the new OS only on your own computer(s). If a friend or family member calls for help, are you going to require them to install ClassicShell before you offer then any help just so you know how to navigate the old UI on their computer? |
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