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Classic Shell and glass8 – make your Windows 8 a bit more usable

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Read this article and another and yet another before you upgrade to Windows 8/8.1 or Windows 10. Many people don’t like Microsoft’s new strategy based on removing features, adding telemetry and Windows 10 ads and replacing Aero Glass with primitive flat-looking Metro theme (you can restore Aero Glass transparency using glass8, but it’s unstable). If you still want to use it you can install ClassicShell. It restores start button and Windows 7-like start menu (you can also choose XP-like). It can bypass Metro screen on Windows 8/8.1 on start-up. There are a lot of new options in 4.0.0 including full support for Windows 8.1 RTM.
You can also install aero theme without transparency for Windows 8.1 or an old windows classic theme (install uxstyle first).

JDiskCat 1.3.1 released.

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Changelog:
1.3.1

  • New Configuration Window.
  • Added “nerd mode” option featuring old size display method.
  • Display “no results” in Search Window using message box instead of results table.
  • Improved About Window.
  • Cleaned code a bit.

1.3.0

  • Main window: added option to open data files save location
  • Main window: added option to import xml file
  • Main window: volume add button is now disabled during cataloging
  • Main window: volume properties additionally displays number of files, folders, catalog data file name, size and location
  • Progress window: added path to currently analysed sub-folder
  • About window: e-mail address can be clicked to send an e-mail using default mail client
  • Main window+search window: size is now displayed in a more elegant way
  • Search window: new look
  • Fixed incorrect search window display under linux
  • Fixed lack of file and volume sorting on linux (listfiles java function lists folder contents unsorted on linux with openjdk so added own sorting)
  • Some minor tweaks and bugfixes Continue reading →