Now, to bring back the classic Taskbar, there are currently two projects - one free, open source one called ExplorerPatcher and another very affordable, commercial, proprietary app called StartAllBack.Īs for the choice of Start Menus, this is always your own decision but Classic Shell's menu is objectively superior to the Start menu in StartAllBack, or Stardock's and of course to the Windows 7 menu, Windows 10 menu, or Windows 11 Start. It is an insult to 25 years of Windows releases and drops features introduced by Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, XP, Vista and 7. The new one is a total joke, I won't even bother to mention how messed up the new taskbar is. Anyway, the more functional classic Taskbar is the one everyone wants - that is the far superior one.

Stardock's Start11 works only with the new Taskbar. StartIsBack/StartAllBack works only with the classic one. Open Shell/Classic Shell works with the new Taskbar as well as the classic taskbar.

7+ Taskbar Tweaker, probably the most important app for the Taskbar also works if this classic Taskbar is activated. And Start Menu replacements (Classic Shell/Open Shell, or StartIsBack/StartAllBack or Stardock's apps) continue to work. Yeah so for Windows 11, you need to know first that although its Taskbar and Start Menu suck completely, the classic Taskbar code is still intact and can be revived.

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