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Classic shell can do what MS didnt.
Published on March 21, 2010 By I.R. Brainiac In Personal Computing

What many pc users didnt like most about Vista was the way MS changed some of the functionality in the UI.(seemingly just to make sure you knew it was different)

Most annoyingly the UP and DELETE buttons were gone and we were left with a non-configurable command bar with a bunch of near useless commands.

A developer at source forge,Ibeltchev,has made a FANTASTIC toolbar addon that fixes a lot of what I hated about the changes.

You can even add the icon and titlebar text back.The status bar sometimes shows more info than the MS info pane.HAH!

 

TIP:...dont put the up button next to the back/forward buttons...it looks like doodoo...just use the one on the toolbar.

 

I'm using it on 7 and its made me a happier user. http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/

 


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on Mar 23, 2010

Sorry IR.

on Mar 23, 2010

no need for apalogies Kona...I aint mad at nobody

on Mar 30, 2010

a bump for the come latelys...

on Apr 04, 2010

The side buttons on my Mouse work just fine for forward and back in browser pages and folders in Windows Explorer.

on Apr 04, 2010

Yes,but will they go up a level,delete a file,add the text back to the titlebar,give you properties,cut,copy,paste,more info in the statusbar or put the icon back in the left upper corner?

Didnt think so..................

on Apr 04, 2010

Marked for later....thankee sai

on Apr 04, 2010

but will they go up a level

Default setting on my Logitech G15 does.

delete a file

Um... I do believe I have a button on my keyboard for that

add the text back to the titlebar

Um... never been missing that, unless it's removed by a WB.

give you properties

Alt+enter

cut,copy,paste

Even more standard Windows shortcut keys

etc etc etc...

hehe

on Apr 04, 2010

What's the big need for an 'Up' button?  Just click the parent directory in the address bar and it goes there.

on Apr 04, 2010

Some of us dont use keyboard shortcuts, some of our keyboards are under our glass desks, so some of us are not benefitting whatsoever from some.. of the posts.

 

Purball, when you have been using toolbar buttons for as long as some.. of us have..year in year out.. things get engrained, one of those things, for some.. of us.. is an up bupponi

 

secondly, the breadcrumb bar in vista\7 is a complete bastard imo.

on Apr 04, 2010

You need to learn keyboard shortcuts if you don't use them. They will save you weeks of your life.

on Apr 04, 2010

Even more standard Windows shortcut keys

1 more time...this post wasnt about how to do these things with your KEYBOARD...not about programmed mouse buttons...its about UI functionality put back into the GUI where I(ME) want it...not the way MS wants it.

If you dont get that then this post wasnt for YOU.

I use...buttons,breadcrumbs,keys...the stars and constellations...whatever gets me where I want the easiest at that moment.

An up button just goes up and up and up without moving the mouse...but more important to me ...the delete button...I would have installed the whole thing just for that.

The titlebar text was a bonus...actual use of empty space.

This thing saves me a lot of right-clicking...something I just dont like to do...I need to save the strength in my middle finger for flippin' off smartasses.

on Apr 04, 2010

What's the big need for an 'Up' button?

Not a huge deal I admit...but...I dont have to pick it out of the breadcrumbs and I dont have to READ an up arrow.

on Apr 04, 2010

Also...I love keyed shortcuts in something like photoshop...makes life easier...but I am not a touch typer so I have to usually take my eyes off the screen to use a keyboard.

I have several mental and physical limitations that make a mouse easier,if less efficient.My brain,big as it is,has Kelley Bundyitis.It will only hold so much before something falls out.

Changing focal depths from screen to keyboard with 50 year old eyes is a bitch.

So now does everybody see why I liked this? (cause I can splain more if ya dont get it)

on Apr 04, 2010

be warned...my middle finger is well rested...

on Apr 04, 2010

Thanks for update I was using an earlier version.

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