How to Display the “My Computer” Icon on the Desktop in Windows 7, 8, or 10
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/
This seems to be the main program designed to bring back some of the old ways
though it starts at 7 and up
What is the story behind Classic Shell?
The project started back in 2008 as a small utility to replace the copy UI for Vista. In 2009 a friend switched from XP to Vista and complained that the Up button was missing. That was the second feature that was implemented. Later in October 2009 I switched to Windows 7 and was very disappointed that the classic start menu was gone, so I went to make my own. After the start menu was done I decided to make this project public and added it to Source Forge. The rest is history.
It is not a "make my computer look exactly like Windows XP". It only brings back few select features from the XP days, not everything. You are not going to find the puppy search here
http://www.classicshell.net/