Download Open-Shell 4.4.190

Open-Shell is a program that allows you to customize the appearance of Windows Explorer, the Start button and the Start Menu in Windows 7, 8 and 10. In Windows 8 or later, it can also add a classic start button and start menu. The program is a further development of Classic Shell, the original developer of which announced further development at the end of 2017 to stop. The source code then ended up as open source on GitHub, where the program is now known as Open-Shell. After a long series of development versions, a stable release has now been released with version number 4.4.190. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Highlights

• Windows 11 start button support

New

• New default Immersive skin for Windows 10/11 (#538)
• New icons and installer artwork (#31)
• Modern looking icons for Apps folder on Windows 10/11
• Added option to always single-click folders (#692)
• Added option to never highlight modified settings
• Added option to use a custom search hint
• Added option to hide “see more results” in search
• Added option to set custom commands for controls
• Added option to single-expand any Win7 style item
• Added option to open folders to their true path (#555, #653, #691)
• Added option to customize Pinned folder location
• Added new option “Enable accelerators” (#447)
• Added new option “Require Alt key for accelerators” (#117)
• Added -reloadsettings command line switch (#1157)
• Allow shutdown even if limited admin doesn’t have shutdown privilege (#1015)
• Properly handle Windows updates during shutdown (#1250)
• Get nightly (prerelease) builds from Github
• Show Open-Shell version in start context menu (#888)
• Use more convenient format for color settings (#82, #1141)
• Use Segoe Fluent Icons font for modern settings icons on Windows 11
• Updated help (#1173, #880, #524)
• Help: Added skinning tutorial
• Help: Added custom button tutorial
• Show start menu next to taskbar by default
• Setup: Recognize also /h and /help parameters (#1278)
• Setup: Don’t install Classic IE by default
• Don’t show first-time settings dialog if settings were imported from XML already (#1319)
• Improved menu animation timing
• Added menu animation fps logging

Fixes

• Fixed taskbar texture on Windows 11 (#1230)
• Fixed sleep operation on systems with connected standby enabled (#719)
• Fixed corrupted icons in second column (#1088)
• Fixed image rendering on Windows 7 (#1023, #90)
• Fixed search box focusing (#1068)
• Fixed Aero button alignment on multiple monitors (#1310)
• Fixed handling of automatically hiding taskbar on multi-monitor setup (#908)
• Proper start menu alignment in case of vertical taskbar Windows 11 (#1231)
• Make sure tray buttons are properly positioned when custom start button was created (#1232)
• Properly scale modern task icons (#518)
• Properly scale default skin font according to DPI (#1110)
• Properly round font size (#1547)
• Use proper modern settings icon (#495)
• Don’t track usage of Open-Shell modern settings folder (#744)
• Don’t show Windows Shell Experience Host in list of frequent programs (#1164)
• Fixed branding string on Windows 11 (#878, #960, #1063)