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Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but are removed from Vista and Windows 7. It brings back the classic start menu that Windows 7 doesn't support, adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and adds couple more smaller features.

Classic Start Menu is a clone of the original start menu, which you can find in all versions of Windows from 95 to Vista. It has a variety of advanced features:

* Drag and drop to let you organize your applications
* Options to show Favorites, expand Control Panel, etc
* Shows recently used documents. The number of documents to display is customizable
* Translated in 35 languages, including Right-to-left support for Arabic and Hebrew
* Does not disable the original start menu in Windows. You can access it by Shift+Click on the start button
* Right-click on an item in the menu to delete, rename, sort, or perform other tasks
* Available for 32 and 64-bit operating systems
* Has support for skins, including additional 3rd party skins
* Fully customizable in both looks and functionality
* Support for Microsoft’s Active Accessibility
* And last but not least – it's FREE!

Added a setting to track and display the recently used programs
The middle mouse button can be used to open the start menu
Fixed an incompatibility with X-Mouse and other mouse bugs
Fixed some problems with separators

- Ctrl+Shift+Click in the start menu runs the program as administrator
- The uninstaller offers to back up the ini files
- Some improvements to the settings
- Fixed a bug that was blocking the toolbar on Windows Vista
- Fixed an incompatibility problem with QTTabBar
- Fixed a start menu bug that was causing a flicker when Windows was running
for too long
- Fixed a hovering bug in the start menu

- Fixed a compatibility bug with older applications (you see the message "The ordinal 345 could not be located in the dynamic link library COMCTL32.dll")
- Fixed a problem with the backing up of the ini files during uninstall

* Fixed a bug in the "EnableContextMenu" setting
* Fixed a compatibility bug with Restorator

- Replaced the ini files with a graphical interface for editing all settings
- Added a setting to force sorting headers in Windows 7 (based on the
Explorer7Fixes tool by Ian Prest)
- Added more settings
- Added special handling for specific folders in the start menu - Computer,
Recycle Bin, Network, etc

- Added a toolbar command for creating a new folder
- Added a way for the custom toolbar commands to receive all selected files
- Added a white list and a black list to limit which processes can load Classic
Explorer
- Fixed the Z-order problems when the start menu is activated by hovering
- Fixed the spontaneous expanding of the All Programs menu
- Small improvements to the settings UI

- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous version
- Added the contents of the GodMode folder to the search in the start menu

- Fixed some minor problems found in the previous release. Most notably the
corrupted text in the toolbar buttons
- Added a check if a new version is available
- Ctrl+Click in the navigation pane opens the folder in a new window
- Alt+Enter in the search box of the start menu shows properties of the
selected item
- The recent documents list can be sorted by name or extension

- Fixed a small problem in the automatic check for a new version

Added support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview:
- Added customizable start button
- Added a Metro skin for the start menu
- Updated all settings for Windows 8
- Fixed the missing caption in IE10
Added a setting to control the menu shadows
Added toolbar commands to map and disconnect network drives
Improved the responsiveness of the check for a new version
The check for new version is a separate component that can be skipped during install

- Windows 8 is now officially supported
- Added more customization settings for the start button
- Added a setting to disable all Metro hot corners
- Improved the initial setup of the start menu
- Added support for split menu buttons
- Improved the usage of the Aero colorization in skins
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version

- Added support for jump lists in the main menu
- Added support for displaying and launching Windows Store apps in Windows 8
- Faster skipping of the Metro screen in Windows 8
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version

Dec 29th, 2012 - Version 3.6.5 is released. Fixes a crash bug in the start menu for some 64-bit systems.

Dec 23rd, 2012 - Version 3.6.4 is released. Fixes a freezing problem for some users when right-clicking on the Start button in Windows 7.

Dec 14th, 2012 - Version 3.6.3 is released. Adds support for multiple monitors in Windows 8 and improves performance.

- New setting to disable the taskbar transparency
- Improved compatibility with future versions of Windows
- Fixed some bugs found in the previous version

- Fixed incompatibility with the taskbar of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012