These include showing the menu next to the taskbar when it is vertical, multi-monitor support, launching multiple programs at once, custom shutdown-related actions, Universal app launching, expanding any file folder as cascading menus, and additional keyboard shortcuts. Scales icons and menu background to higher resolutions and/or pixel density (PPI)īesides restoring past behavior, there are several new features.Skinning to more completely customize the appearance.Customize settings such as menu opening delay, tooltip timing, sub-menu column style, menu width, icon size, animation, scroll speed, font smoothing, etc.
Sort menus alphabetically, by date, or custom order with drag-and-drop.
Although it modifies Windows behaviors, it does not do so by modifying or tweaking Windows registry settings or replacing or patching system files - all modifications are done using Windows APIs. Classic IE - An add-on for Internet Explorer 9 and later, it restores the web page title to the window title bar, and various details to the status barĬlassic Shell is programmed in C++.Classic Explorer - An add-on to File/Windows Explorer, restoring and extending features present in various Windows releases.Classic Start Menu - A re-implementation of the Start Menu, replicating features from several different generations of Windows.Classic Shell is packaged as a suite of three components, all optional and independent of each other: