UI mods

Re-enabling Aero Glass

• Glass8 (MSFN forum) - do not pay, it's long dead
• ALTaleX531/OpenGlass (Win10+)
• Maplespe/DWMBlurGlass (Win10+)
• MicaForEveryone (might be for Win10+ only, haven't checked)

Explorer

• OldNewExplorer undoes the Ribbon style and makes Explorer look like Win7 again.
• ExplorerPatcher - mainly for Win11

Taskbar

• TaskbarX
• TranslucentTB (Win10+)
• 7+ Taskbar Tweaker

Start Menu recreations

• Open Shell (free)
• Power8 (free)
• Start Menu X (freemium)
• StartIsBack (Paid, 5 USD) for Win8~10
• StartAllBack (shares license key with the above, just a name change) for Win11
• Start8 (paid, 5 USD) for Win8
• Start10 (paid, 10 USD) for Win10
• Start11 (paid, 20 USD) for Win10/11

See also: list on Wikipedia, alternativeto.net

ExplorerPatcher and 10SM can restore real (i.e. not recreated) Windows 10 start menu to Windows 11.

Registry changes

Download

Filenames and registry entry names should be self-explanatory enough. Most of this is sourced from Winaero.

Other stuff

• Win7 games
• win7games.com - aggregation of "Classic" things removed / replaced in Win10/11, that are also (originally?) available from winaero
• Win8.1 Media Center on Win10