Windows 8 - Classic Shell (Windows 7 Style)

Personally I never liked the W7 menu, I think the earlier Classic one is much better. Which is why I stated using Classic Shell on Windows 7 originally. It also adds stuff back to Windows Explorer that was missing in Windows 7. Which the other main reason I use Classic shell.

But that Start is Back does look worth checking out. It may have other features.
 
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darael said:
What's stopping people disabling Metro completely, and spamming their desktop with a load of icons? After all, that's what the metro inferface pretty is - a full screen of icons.
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Metro tiles are 'live' in the sense that they are (can be) not only icons but also update and display stuff... more akin to widgets really.
 
Broken Hope said:
Start is Back seems to be a better replacement from the looks of it. Since it seems to hook into native Microsoft code to bring the start menu back.

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/158666-start-is-back-beta-3/
http://startisback.com/
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Nice find, definitely the best of the bunch I've found so far (Start8 is a close 2nd but has a few flaws). Although I do prefer the Windows 8-esque styling they've done with the start menu in Start8, it fits in better with Windows 8 than the classic Windows 7 style.

Now all that needs to be done is to copy whatever Classic Shell does to add the start button to OS X desktop when running in Parallel's Coherence mode...
 
Just installed the final in vmware workstation to test disabling metro.

I used:

Vista Switcher

Then I disabled the mouseover feature in the prefrences of the application and setup two exclusions for the immersive desktop and the object desktop.

Then i installed the classic shell application. Only shame is that the start menu is not like windows 7 but more like windows xp. I just need to find a free windows 7 start menu.

I also installed the 7 taskbar tweaker because I like to disable the taskbar previews as well and disable grouping.

I can still access the metro from the windows key if i need to. I just need to work out how to disable metro notifications and could get by without metro getting in the way. I think I might format one of my ssd and give this a try.
 
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