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Open Shell is a free, open-source, community-driven project that forked from the Classic Shell project. It is designed for Windows, aiming to restore the classic start menu experience to modern versions of Microsoft Windows. Its core product, the Open-Shell Menu, offers extensive customization features including changing the Start Button, supporting themes, providing a system tweaker, a Windows Explorer Extension to make the Taskbar transparent, and the ability to drag and drop programs to the start menu. Known for being lightweight and privacy-focused, Open Shell serves users seeking a highly customizable and stable alternative to native Windows start menus, which some find frustrating, unintuitive, or ad-laden. It competes with solutions like StartAllBack, StartItBack, Start11, Start Menu X, and commercial options like WindowBlinds10, often being praised for its stability, functionality, and ease of use. While it continues to adapt to Windows 10/11, it has a known limitation of not working on ARM CPUs. Information regarding revenue, leadership (CEO/executives), and employee count is not available, consistent with its volunteer-driven open-source nature.
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