I have been using windows 8 Enterprise x64 and i never liked metro from the start so i came across a tool called Windows 7 explorer for Windows 8 v1.0

Here is a description from the author:

Long story short, i made a wrapper to Windows 7 explorer.exe to run on Windows 8. You can try it now in order to have native Windows 7 desktop experience, without immersive shell bits enabled, saving RAM. New Windows Explorer features like ribbon and file copying are present.

Here is the site:

http://www.msfn.org/...-for-windows-8/

I was wondering would it be possible to integrate an option like this for those of us who dont like metro? so it can preinstall with a start menu? If you wanted with this software you can even switch between shells in one click its really good, only thing is when your installing it asks you for your win 7 disk so it can copy the needed files but i think the author will be making that unnecessary in the next version if i read his post correctly.

I love this tool because it doesnt leave any processes running on your system unlike software such as Classic Shell, Start8 and vistart, Although it would also be nice for users to have the option to install these too! can they it be done with silent switches ?

Edited October 23, 201212 yr by upgrade

I'm sure this could be done as an Addon, so I don't think I will implement it.

I'm sure this could be done as an Addon, so I don't think I will implement it.

thats cool could you tell me how u would make this into an addon if you get time or point me in the right direction please.

You can use http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/ this is really good. I use it with Win7 but Win8 is also supported.

i know about thiis software i just wanted to know how you would use it as an addon but thanks anyway

Look here: http://classicshell....nstall_commands just add it to the Silent Installs with switch.

Good point by the way, I will do that to my DVD as well.

Edited October 24, 201212 yr by Atlan

thanks alot Atlan

I'm guessing I don't have to do anything regarding this. If i'm honest i'm not a fan of including extra files with Win Toolkit so probably would have denied this anyway. If it was a simple registry tweak then sure, why not