Classic Shell 4.0.5 now available for download

Classic Shell is a collection of features that were available in older versions of Windows but are removed from Vista and Windows 7. It has a classic start menu for Windows 7 and Windows 8, it adds a toolbar for Windows Explorer and supports a variety of smaller features. There are 3 major components - Classic Explorer, Classic Start Menu and Classic IE9. Look here for the full list of features.

Classic Shell features:

Classic Start Menu for Windows 7, 8 (with skins)
Toolbar for Windows Explorer
Classic copy UI
Show file size in Explorer status bar

Classic Start Menu is a clone of the original start menu. It has a variety of advanced features:

Drag and drop to let you organize your applications
Options to show Favorites, expand Control Panel, etc
Shows recently used documents. The number of documents to display is customizable
Translated in 35 languages, including Right-to-left support for Arabic and Hebrew
Does not disable the original start menu in Windows. You can access it by Shift+Click on the start button
Right-click on an item in the menu to delete, rename, sort, or perform other tasks
The search box helps you find your programs without getting in the way of your keyboard shortcuts
Available for 32 and 64-bit operating systems
Has support for skins, including additional 3rd party skins
Fully customizable in both looks and functionality
Support for Microsoft’s Active Accessibility
Converts the “All Programs” button in the Windows menu into a cascading menu (Vista and Windows 7)
Implements a customizable start button for Windows 8
And last but not least – it's FREE!

Classic Explorer is a plugin for Windows Explorer that:

Adds a toolbar to Explorer for some common operations (Go to parent folder, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Properties, Email). The toolbar is fully customizable
Replaces the copy UI in Vista and Windows 7 with the more user-friendly “classic” version similar to Windows XP
Handles Alt+Enter in the folder panel of Windows Explorer and shows the properties of the selected folder
Has options for customizing the folder panel to look more like the Windows XP version or to not fade the expand buttons
Can show the free disk space and the total file size in the status bar
Can disable the breadcrumbs in the address bar
Fixes a long list of features that are broken in Windows 7 – missing icon overlay for shared folders, the jumping folders in the navigation pane, missing sorting headers in list view, and more

Classic IE9 is a plugin for Internet Explorer 9 that:

Adds a caption to the title bar so you can see the full title of the page
Shows the security zone in the status bar
Shows the loading progress in the status bar

What's new in this version:

Improved support for high resolution displays. Skin elements can be scaled with the DPI resolution. Read more about it here.
Improved support for touch displays
New buttons for Explorer to toggle the navigation pane, details pane and preview pane
Added support for animated start buttons. See how to make one here.
Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes

New features:

New setting in Classic Start Menu: Invert Metro icon color
New setting in Classic Explorer to not show the share overlay icon for hidden shares (hidden shares have the $ character in their name)
New setting in Classic Start Menu for Windows 8.1 to only show the Start button on the primary taskbar
New system for generating localized Group Policy (ADML) files
Drives and folders can be pinned to the Start Menu from Explorer
Touch support for scrolling single-column menus with a finger
New setting for the installer "NOSTART=1" to disable the automatic launch of the Start Menu after installation

Bug fixes, design changes and minor new additions:

Ctrl+Backspace in the Start Menu search box deletes the previous word or path component
Fixed the problem where settings did not get migrated when upgrading from 3.6.8 to 4.0.4
Dragging a folder to the Pinned folder creates an expandable/cascading menu shortcut in the Start Menu
Fixed a bug where the text is misaligned in the Start Menu Programs tree when you switch from the Classic to the Windows Aero skin
The Start Menu search box in high-contrast Classic skin uses the correct high contrast color instead of white
Pinning a shortcut preserves the localized name from Desktop.ini if there is one
The REST_NOCLOSE Windows Group Policy correctly disables Shutdown, Restart etc in the Start Menu for all styles
The Shutdown button of the Classic skin for the Start Menu shows a focus rectangle when the keyboard cues are enabled
Fixed a bug in the Classic styles where you can't execute a UNC path if autocomplete was turned off
The Classic Start Menu Settings UI now has the option to hide the Pin context menu item
The Classic Start Menu Settings UI now has the options for setting menu width and Shutdown commands in Windows 7 style
Fixed the problem with a click on the auto-hide taskbar being ignored when the Start menu is open
Right-click on the Start button works even when the menu is opened or when the hover delay is 0
Fixed a bug where multi-column submenus with large padding can go outside of the screen