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Classic Shell: Features
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<h1><label><a name="start_menu"></a></label>Classic Start Menu</h1>
<strong>Classic Start Menu</strong> can replicate the start menus found in
older versions of Windows from 95 to Windows 7. You have 3 styles to pick from:<br>
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<td align="center"><b>Classic</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Two columns</b></td>
<td align="center"><b>Windows 7</b></td>
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<td><img alt="" border="0" src="../images/startmenu1.png" title="Classic start menu, for people who like it simple"></td>
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The start menu has a variety of advanced features:<br>
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<li>Drag and drop to let you organize your applications</li>
<li>Options to show Favorites, expand Control Panel, etc</li>
<li>Shows recently used documents. The number of documents to display
is customizable</li>
<li>Translated in 40 languages, including Right-to-left support for
Arabic and Hebrew</li>
<li>Does not disable the original start menu in Windows. You can
access it by Shift+Click on the start button</li>
<li>Right-click on an item in the menu to delete, rename, sort, or
perform other tasks</li>
<li>The search box helps you find your programs without getting in the way of your keyboard shortcuts</li>
<li>Supports jumplists for easy access to recent documents and common tasks</li>
<li>Available for 32 and 64-bit operating systems</li>
<li>Has support for skins, including additional 3rd party skins</li>
<li>Fully customizable in both looks and functionality</li>
<li>Support for Microsoft&#8217;s Active Accessibility</li>
<li>Converts the &#8220;All Programs&#8221; button in the Windows menu into a cascading menu (Windows 7)</li>
<li>Implements a customizable Start button</li>
<li>Can show, search and launch Windows Store apps (Windows 8 and up)</li>
<li>And last but not least &#8211; it's FREE!</li>
</ul>
Pick from multiple built-in skins, download more from the Internet, or make your own!
Check out the&nbsp; <a href="skintutorial.html">Skinning Tutorial</a>.<br>
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<img src="../images/skins.gif" style="width: 250px; height: 470px;" alt="Skins for Classic Start Menu" title="Skins for Classic Start Menu">
<img src="../images/xpskin.gif" style="width: 367px; height: 408px;" alt="Skins for Classic Start Menu" title="Skins for Classic Start Menu">
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You can customize the Start button. Choose from 2 built-in styles or download new buttons from the Internet:<br>
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<img alt="Custom Start buttons" title="Custom Start buttons" src="../images/start_buttons.gif"><br>
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<h1><a name="explorer"></a>Classic Explorer</h1>
<strong>Classic Explorer</strong> is a plugin for Windows Explorer
that:<br>
<ul>
<li>Adds a toolbar to Explorer for some common operations (Go
to parent folder, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Properties, Email). The toolbar is fully customizable</li>
<li>Replaces the copy UI in Windows 7 with the more
user-friendly &#8220;classic&#8221; version similar to Windows XP</li>
<li>Handles Alt+Enter in the folder panel of Windows Explorer and
shows the properties of the selected folder</li>
<li>Has options for customizing the folder panel to look more like
the Windows XP version or to not fade the expand buttons</li>
<li>Can show the free disk space and the total file size in the
status bar</li>
<li>Can disable the breadcrumbs in the address bar</li>
<li>Fixes a long list of features that are broken in Windows 7 &#8211; missing icon overlay
for shared folders, the jumping folders in the navigation pane, missing sorting
headers in list view, and more<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2><a name="toolbar"></a>Toolbar in Windows Explorer</h2>
Windows Explorer in modern versions of Windows doesn&#8217;t have a toolbar like the one in
Windows XP. If you want to go to the parent folder you have to use the
breadcrumbs bar. If you want to copy or delete a file with the mouse
you have to right-click and look for the Delete command. The
right-click menu gets bigger and bigger the more shell extensions you
have installed, and finding the right command can take a while.
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To solve the problem, the Classic Explorer plugin adds a new toolbar:<br>
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<img src="../images/toolbar.png" alt="Explorer Toolbar" title="Explorer Toolbar"><br>
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Hold the <strong>Control key</strong> when clicking the Up button to
open the parent
folder in a new Explorer window.<br>
Hold the <strong>Shift key</strong> when clicking the Delete button to
permanently delete a file.<br>
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<h2>Additional Up Button (Windows 7 only)</h2>
Some people have asked if I can make a small
Up button and put it next to the Back/Forward buttons in the title bar
of Explorer. If Up is the only button you need from the toolbar, this
will save you screen space:<br>
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<img src="../images/titlebar.png" style="width: 275px; height: 120px;" alt="Up button in the title bar" title="Up button in the title bar"><br>
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Right-click on the button to bring up the Classic Explorer settings.
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<h2><a name="copy_ui"></a>New copy UI (Windows 7 only)</h2>
In Windows 7 when you copy files and there is a conflict you are
presented with this:
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&nbsp;<img src="../images/before.png" style="width: 460px; height: 472px;" alt="Copy in Windows 7" title="Copy in Windows 7">
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What&#8217;s wrong with it?
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Well, for starters it is half a screen full of text that you have to
read. Also it is not immediately clear what parts of it are clickable.
You have to move the mouse around to discover the UI like in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle">Lucas Arts
adventure game</a>. And finally the keyboard usability is awful. To
tell it <strong>&#8220;yes, I know what I&#8217;m doing, I want to overwrite all
files&#8221;</strong> you have to press <strong>Alt+D, up, up, up, Space</strong>!
It is
harder than performing the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErqKebdqjU&amp;feature=fvw">Akuma
Kara Demon move</a> in Street Fighter 3. There is a time and a place
for that stuff and copying files is not it.
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The Classic Explorer plugin brings back the simpler dialog box from
Windows XP:<br>
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<img src="../images/after.png" style="width: 438px; height: 251px;" alt="Copy in XP" title="Copy in XP"><br>
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It is immediately clear what is clickable <em>(clue &#8211; the buttons
at the
bottom)</em>, there is easy keyboard navigation (press <strong>Y</strong>
for &#8220;Yes&#8221;, <strong>A</strong> to copy all files) and you can still see
which file is newer and which is larger. And of course just like in
Windows XP, holding down <strong>Shift</strong> while clicking on the
No button means "No to All" (or just press <strong>Shift+N</strong>).
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If you click on <span style="text-decoration: underline;">More&#8230;</span>
you will get the original dialog from Windows. From there you will see
all the details and you&#8217;ll get an extra option to &#8220;Copy, but keep both
files&#8221;.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Important Note:</span> Only the UI
is replaced. The underlying system that does the actual copying is not
affected.
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<h2><a name="alt_enter"></a>Alt+Enter in the navigation pane</h2>
Alt+Enter is universal shortcut across Windows to bring up the
properties of the selection. But in Windows 7 it doesn&#8217;t
work in the left pane that shows the folders. It works fine on the
right where the files are. This is broken compared to Windows XP where
Alt+Enter works in both places.
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To solve the problem, the Classic Explorer plugin detects when you
press Alt+Enter and shows the properties for the currently selected
folder.<br>
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<h2><a name="statusbar"></a>Status bar</h2>
In the latest versions of Windows the status bar in Explorer doesn't show the free disk
space and the size of the selected files. Classic Explorer fixes that:<br>
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<img src="../images/statusbar.png" style="width: 507px; height: 26px;" alt="File size in status bar" title="File size in status bar"><br>
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When no files are selected the total size of all files in the folder is
shown.
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<h1><a name="ie"></a>Classic IE</h1>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Classic IE</span> is a plugin for Internet Explorer that:<br>
<ul>
<li>Adds a caption to the title bar so you can see the full title of the page</li>
<li>Shows the security zone in the status bar</li>
<li>Shows the loading progress in the status bar</li>
</ul>
<img style="width: 680px; height: 374px;" alt="Custom title bar and status bar in Internet Explorer 9" title="Custom title bar and status bar in Internet Explorer 9" src="../images/gallery/custom_ie9.png"><br>
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