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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

MikeR

Post subject: Re: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2013 4:07 am

Replies: 6
Views: 18369

I think I may have now tracked down the true source of this issue and it's not directly related to Classic Start at all. When Windows 8.1 boots there can be quite a bit of hard drive activity before and after the login screen appears. If I log in before this activity ceases it appears to prevent the...

Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

MikeR

Post subject: Re: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:01 pm

Replies: 6
Views: 18369

I spoke too soon. I have just booted up again and, this time, the USB drive failed to initialise. I did have a USB 2.0 drive connected at the time, so maybe that affected the issue. I'll experiment further in the morning.

Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

MikeR

Post subject: Re: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 10:10 am

Replies: 6
Views: 18369

Thanks for that.

I tried re-booting twice and the USB drive worked OK both times. It look as though automatic loading interfered with the initialization of the USB 3.0 ports.

Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

MikeR

Post subject: Re: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 9:55 am

Replies: 6
Views: 18369

On rebooting the drive works. It also continues to work after starting Classic Start manually (at least on a single trial).

Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

MikeR

Post subject: USB 3.0 drive not initialising on startup

Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 9:43 am

Replies: 6
Views: 18369

I recently upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1 with the latest version of Classic Start already running. I later realised this this was a mistake and have subsequently removed and reinstalled it. Both before and after the re-installation my USB 3.0 drive does not function correctly unless unplugged and r...

Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Version 3.6.8 fails to autostart

MikeR

Post subject: Re: Version 3.6.8 fails to autostart

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:04 pm

Replies: 2
Views: 10851

Check in Services.msc if the Classic Shell service is set to "Automatic" and is running. In the next major version 4.0 (3.9.0 which is in beta), Ivo has reworked the way it starts so it no longer depends on the service and should hopefully start more reliably. Thanks for the info. The she...

Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Version 3.6.8 fails to autostart

MikeR

Post subject: Version 3.6.8 fails to autostart

Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 1:32 am

Replies: 2
Views: 10851

I had no trouble with 3.6.7 but this version will start OK when I re-start Windows but not from a cold boot. For now I have added a copy of ClassicStartMenu.exe to the Start-up folder, but that shouldn't be necessary.

Any suggestions as to how to get this version to work properly?

Thanks

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