Classic Shell

Classic Shell is a free program that restores functions removed from the latest versions of Windows, such as Windows 8 and 10. It adds a classic Start menu, a toolbar in Windows Explorer and is able to return many smaller functions. The program is no longer developed: its author stopped work on it at the end of 2017 and published the source code, and volunteers continue the project on GitHub under the name Open-Shell.

The Classic Shell's classic start menu has the following features:

Drag and drop function for convenient organization of applications;

Classic Shell software allows users to restore the familiar classic Start menu and toolbar for enhanced navigation on Windows 8 and 10.

Options for displaying Favourites and unfolding the Control Panel;

the display of recently opened documents. The number of documents displayed can be adjusted;

the program does not disable the standard Start menu, it is available by pressing the Shift button while clicking on the Start button;

When you right click on an item, a menu appears that allows you to delete the item, rename it, sort it, etc;

the "All Programs" list can be shown as a cascading menu, and the menu comes in three styles (Classic, Two columns and Windows 7) with a choice of skins.

Classic Shell offers a classic and more familiar Windows Explorer. This function has such features:

adds a toolbar that contains the most common operations (copy, paste, delete, properties, etc.), the panel is fully customizable;

replaces the file copying dialog of Windows 7 with a more familiar classic version;

handles pressing Alt+Enter in Windows Explorer and shows the properties of the selected item.

As for Internet Explorer 9, the following options are available to you:

adding a title bar at the top of the window that displays the full title of the page;

Display the page loading progress in the status bar of your browser;

Display security zones in the IE9 status bar.