On 2013-04-03 9:49 AM, Kurt Weiske -> TOM WALKER wrote:> -=> TOM
WALKER wrote to JEAN PARROT <=-

 TW>> It may be close BUT the Freeware Program ClassicShell is BETTER.
 TW>> Besidesgiving you a choice of the Classis Windows Start Menu for
 KW> Win 8
 TW>> you can also have either the Win XP or Win 7 Start menus. IT also
 KW> makes
 TW>> some "Usability" improvements to Win(File)Explorier
 TW>> Take a look www.classicshell.net


 KW> I just run XP - it includes the XP start menu at no cost.  :)

 KW> I've ripped out most of the excess stuff from it and mostly use it as a
 KW> windowing platform to run 3rd party apps. When Microsoft stops patching it,
 KW> I should be OK.

The problem will be when the 3rd party apps stop supporting their XP versions -
particularly with security updates.

Mac users with older (PowerPC) hardware are running into this issue... with
companies like Adobe not updating Flash (etc) for that platform.

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