Nope, Start10 isn't free... but even the regular price is something like $5. With Black Friday (or whatever it's morphed in to now... Black November?) I want to say Stardock cuts the price back a buck or two.Great tool, but not free is it? I have used the free one formerly Classic Shell, since abandoned then refreshed as open source, and now called Open Shell, and it worked great also.
I used to use Classic Shell before Start10... but once it got abandoned somehow I missed the refresh. If Start10 should ever do something to perturb me I'll give OpenShell a look though.