no classic shell make W8 run like W7 not XP

It looks safe to me, and comes form a legit web page as seen below. Here is a link that might be useful: classicshell

That is the registry fix worked on 8 but according to posters who have this same problem, says it doesn't work on 8.1. I am going to play around with enlarging every thing and possibly using one of my FF apps to work on the other. I can use it the way it is, it's just one of those things that nags at me and keeps me looking for a fix. I had a problem with personalize/color (taskbar) and kept messing with it until I stumbled on a fix. My taskbar was snow white and didn't match my wallpaper, all the borders were snow white. the option shown below was missing.

I dunno but, windows 10 current build, the typical restart isn't a full restart anymore. It saves or cache's some of the store apps and system configurations & at restarts opens them in the previous running configuration. After you do install your shell program - You might click a blank spot on the desktop, to give mouse focus to the desktop, and use the key combination ALT+F4 to open the shutdown menu then select restart. Which will be the full restart not saving any Store apps / or other system configurations.