Get Windows XP Classic Start Menu in Windows 7

Badly missing your old familiar Windows XP Classic Start Menu in your new Windows 7 computer? You must have got accustomed to having the Run command as well as your recently opened documents in Windows XP. While you can get these back in Windows 7 by changing Start Menu’s settings, you may still want to get the look and feel of Windows XP Start Menu.
You can get back the Classic Start Menu in Windows 7 with a free program called the Classic Windows Start Menu. Being a standalone application you can carry Classic Windows Start Menu anywhere you go on a USB Flash drive. This free Windows 7 utility gives you back the Log Off and Turn Off buttons on the Start Menu. The Original menu… item brings back your Windows 7 Start Menu any time you want.
Add Classic Windows Start Menu to the Startup programs of Windows 7 by placing the extracted folder from the downloaded zip file into Program Files and then adding a shortcut of the executable file (cwsm.exe). This way you can make it run every time you start your system, without the need to manually execute it. You can change the displayed text for any Start Menu item, by editing the strings.xml file. You can also customize the background, font color, font glow, and Icon sizes of Start Menu by editing the corresponding XML elements in this file.
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