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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Vista Style Button |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:27 am
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Nice 'pressed' state. It gives a real feeling of a pressed button.  |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Freeze on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:25 am
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Replies: 54
Views: 205178
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| Explorer.exe is in C:\Windows. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Mail Win8 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:17 am
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Replies: 9
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| Btw ruiman, there is a way to launch Metro apps from desktop or taskbar or ANY location using a third party free app called OblyTile. If you are interested, take a look here: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-pin-modern-metro-apps-to-the-taskbar/ Note that this is unrelated to and unsupported by Classi... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Increasing Start Menu Items |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:14 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 12562
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| Hmm. Having 20 Recent Programs can be limiting, especially if small icons are being used and there is space to display more items. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Setting column width of main menu has no effect |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:05 am
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Replies: 5
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| Do you want to control minimum width or maximum width? As Ivo said, the "Main menu width" controls maximum width, so you can set it as you want to a width beyond which if the program name goes, it will be truncated and shown as .... To set the Minimum width, there is not a setting availabl... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Missing programs |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 1:58 am
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Replies: 9
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| Your problem is related to Virtual PC, not Start Menu related. VM=Virtual machine. What you are using as "XP Mode" is a Virtual Machine running on Windows Virtual PC software which is available only for Windows 7. Okay, try this: 1. First shutdown Windows XP Mode. 2. Open "Windows Vir... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Missing programs |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:32 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Do the XP Mode icons appear in Windows 7's built-in Start Menu under "Windows Virtual PC" folder? If they appear in it, then they should show up in the Classic Start Menu as well. In your XP Mode VM settings from Virtual PC's folder, check if "Auto publish" of shortcuts from XP M... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Freeze on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 10:17 pm
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Replies: 54
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| Gaby, thanks for persisting with troubleshooting this issue. The hangs also happen after Defender is disabled? Have you installed any other AV or firewall? ClassicStartMenu.exe injects itself in Explorer.exe process so your security program may be blocking that causing the hangs. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Something Went Oops - Windows 8 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 11:10 pm
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Replies: 9
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| Yeah lots of users are reporting this. Over time, it just stops skipping the Start screen. Best solution is combination of UserInit and service, as Task Scheduler will also start it delayed even if you reduce the startup delay using this reg tweak: http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-reduce-the-startup-d... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Original Windows 7 Orb Start Buttons of various sizes |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 9:03 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Windows 7 Start Buttons of various sizes to this post: Small, Medium, Large and Extra Large and for thick-sized and thin taskbar. Preview: ( download the ZIP file to get all sizes of the button , don't save the image). The Windows logo is a copyright and trademark of Microsoft. It is being distribut... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Sent to |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 3:10 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 24647
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| Oh you're right clicking a file in Explorer. Classic Shell does not modify Windows Explorer's right click menu in any way. Something might have deleted the contents of your Send To folder. Type shell:sendto into the Start Menu search box and see if it's empty. If it's empty, it means some other cont... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Classic Shell stopped working |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:40 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 44841
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| Modern versions of Windows don't need a third party firewall. The built-in one is excellent, although it doesn't block outbound programs by default. You can install a free program like Windows7FirewallControl by Sphinx Software to block outbound connections in Windows Firewall and get a notification... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Classic Shell stopped working |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:21 am
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Replies: 18
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| I've also been using 7+TT without issue. Zone Alarm also often causes a lot of incompatibilities and problems with MANY programs from my personal experience. I would recommend uninstalling ZA temporarily to see if it works with ZA installed. |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Toolbar Email button |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:49 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 18895
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| That app appears to require the Java runtime installed for it to work. Worked for me for Gmail. It gets saved as a draft on Gmail which you can continue composing. I tried the beta version, not the featured. Btw, note that any third party app recommendation are made purely for your convenience. Use ... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to enable multiple columns for pinned program folders? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:12 am
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Replies: 5
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| @Skyli, FYI, for that you need to add the item called "Recent Items" from the Customize Start Menu. That is the Recent programs list (even if it says "Recent Items"). You can definitely put it below the search box but it will be in a sub-menu as Ivo said. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Classic Shell stopped working |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 12:09 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 44841
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| Do you have a third party anti-malware installed which may be blocking the Start Menu process? |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Improve the quality of checkboxes at 125/150% screen sizes. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:42 am
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Replies: 4
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| He probably means the checkboxes in the settings UI. Both checkboxes and radio buttons (as well as the icon used for every setting) looks pixelated at high DPI. Compared to Windows checkboxes in settings like Folder Options, they look terrible. Here's a screenshot comparing the two: http://i.imgur.c... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to enable multiple columns for pinned program folders? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:36 am
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Replies: 5
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| Btw, to do that in case you are finding it difficult, go to Customize Start Menu tab, scroll all the way down in the right column, add "Custom Command" and add the folder of your choice as a Link. You can also add a Library defined in Explorer (to combine more than one folder in a menu). T... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Sent to |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 8:32 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 24647
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| Where are you right-clicking? A folder or directly a file? For folders that are located in both Start Menu folders - per user and All users, Send To isn't displayed. Also, if you are right clicking in the MRU list to access Send To, you must Shift+right click. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Increasing Start Menu Items |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2013 5:36 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 15383
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| On the Special Items tab, change the setting "Max recent programs". |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Some program icons is showed as white squares. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:18 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 64587
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| Hmm, after you reinstalled all the software which uses MSI installer, the last step would be to delete/reset the Explorer icon cache again. That should bring back all icons. Anyways, it means it wasn't a Classic Shell issue and glad that you can get your icons back. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Cannot skip Metro screen |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 8:16 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 75374
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Separator in Program menu |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:36 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 56655
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Yes I agree. A separator along with a way to label the separator optionally, and change it to blue like jumplist headers are done will be awesome.
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: pin to startmenu items do not show in the pin to start menu |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:42 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 22778
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| The right click "Pin to Start" item only pins to the Windows 8 Start screen. To get "Pin to Classic Start Menu" item for versions 3.6.x, follow the tutorial here: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=61. Another way to pin is to simply drag and drop items to ... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Question regarding Search |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:46 am
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Replies: 6
Views: 16051
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| Btw, you can already execute them from the search box although I agree if they return in search results, it will be even better. |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Toolbar Email button |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:19 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 18895
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Some program icons is showed as white squares. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 6:36 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 64587
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| Thanks for following up with troubleshooting this issue so far. According to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa371182%28v=vs.85%29.aspx, some applications may change the option codes for the REINSTALLMODE property so a Repair installation would not be the same thing as uninst... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Some program icons is showed as white squares. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 3:40 am
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Replies: 25
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| Since they are all MSI shortcuts, it looks like icons which are cached for these shortcuts in the C:\Windows\Installer folder got deleted somehow. You could try doing a "Repair" installation from Control Panel -> Programs and Features for each of the softwares which show blank icons. You m... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Systemsteuerung anklicken |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:03 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 12388
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| Do you wish to show those items as a menu, not a link? Go to Special items tab and set "Display as a link" for the ones you want. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Some program icons is showed as white squares. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:00 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 64587
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| Are these are MSI advertised shortcuts? (Is the target field in Properties greyed out for these shortcuts for which you get white icons?) Did you restart after deleting the cache? :) Also, if that doesn't work, maybe it's a permissions issue? Try using a tool like TakeOwnershipEx: http://winaero.com... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Restore option to 'keep the taskbar on top..." |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:30 am
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Replies: 1
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Would like option to 'Remember each folder's view settings' |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:21 am
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Replies: 1
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| The registry equivalent to "Remember each folder's view settings" is still intact. MS just took out the option from Folder Options. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced. Add a DWORD value called ClassicViewState and set it to 1. Log off and lo... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: SOLVED :) lol |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:47 am
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Replies: 8
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| From the screenshot, it is obvious that it is Start8, not the "original" Start Menu. There is no original Start Menu in Windows 8. Classic Shell is not supported along with other Start menu products installed. To make it stop appearing in the bottom left corner, either disable the conflict... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Settings, etc. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:42 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 37230
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| The Start button is automatically added on Windows 8, the settings are automatically opened the first time the Start button is clicked where you can choose your style. From that same window, you can enable "All Settings" and you get access to all settings. Also, Classic Shell creates short... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Icons blink when the cursor is on the top if corner disabled |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:35 am
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Replies: 18
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| Good catch and thanks for reporting. I can reproduce the bug. Are you running 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 8? |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Make separate installer for Classic Start Menu. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:21 am
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Replies: 1
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| No plans as you can choose not to install Classic Explorer and Classic IE components during setup. For quiet/unattended installation, installer parameters are supported. For example, /qn ADDLOCAL=ClassicExplorer - installs only Classic Explorer in quiet mode /qn ADDLOCAL=ClassicStartMenu - installs ... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: SOLVED :) lol |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:25 pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 22645
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I can't repro the issue.  It means the bottom left hot corner isn't getting disabled. Have you any other Start Menu or Metro "fixing" software installed? The two can conflict. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Allow installer to take command line option for config xml |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 9:02 am
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Replies: 9
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| It should make no difference whether the reg is merged before or after because when uninstalled, the settings are left and preserved in the registry. So a clean first-time install should be the same as a reinstall. Make sure you export the settings with "ShowedStyle" set to 1 in HKCU so yo... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Resizing in Windows 8 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:37 pm
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Replies: 3
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| Btw, the font sizes of some items have been moved in Windows 8 to 'Display' in Control Panel as the Advanced Appearance settings were removed. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Does per-user configuration override HKLM configuration? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:55 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 19496
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Does per-user configuration override HKLM configuration? |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:52 pm
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Replies: 6
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| If a setting exists in the HKLM branch or in both, it is locked. If it exists only in HKCU branch, it is user-changeable. It's like Group Policy's Computer Configuration vs User Configuration, but unlike Policy, it's not enforced if in HKCU. So more like Group Policy Preferences. |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Suggestion: Add multi-tabs as option to explorer |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:11 am
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Replies: 16
Views: 40751
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| There is already an excellent free app called QTTabBar which adds tabs to Explorer. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Cannot skip Metro screen |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:21 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 75374
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| The dual solution of service+using UserInit will make it foolproof and once and for all end the issues of Metro not getting skipped. There is no harm in leaving behind the entry in userinit too because it doesn't give errors if the EXE isn't found. Microsoft had no right to cripple startup like this. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Open application on the display from where I clicked? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:17 pm
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Replies: 2
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| Yeah I highly want this too. It adds a lot of convenience. Multi-monitor software does this but all of them are paid, and none offer this feature in the free version. The way they do it is they just move the window to where the mouse pointer is at window startup. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Settings, etc. |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:15 pm
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Replies: 10
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| First uninstall the installed version of Classic Shell. If you can't find the Win8StartButton uninstaller, install it once and then uninstall it. After you have uninstalled both, look for leftover files in C:\Program Files\<some folder> of Win8StartButton and delete them. Then install Classic Shell. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Settings, etc. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 9:00 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 37230
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| Yes that will interfere as Win8 Start Button is based on Classic Shell. Uninstall it completely and then install Classic Shell. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Settings, etc. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:33 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 37230
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| There is no step required. The button is added automatically right after installation completes. Do you use any third party anti-virus which may be conflicting with it? If so, look in its setting to exclude EXEs and exclude C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\ClassicStartMenu.exe. Otherwise, I am clueles... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Start Button Disappeared |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 6:02 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 52343
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| Look in Zone Alarm's setting for exclusion list to exclude EXEs and add ClassicShellMenu.exe to it. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Start Button Disappeared |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:10 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 52343
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| So the button failed to appear even after checking that setting and logging out? What do you mean the 'action seems to work'? :) Please go to Controls tab from Settings and check if Left click and Windows key opens settings are set to open the Classic Start Menu. Also, what anti-virus are you using ... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Manage in Device Manager |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2013 8:55 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Works for me from right click. Does manually opening Compmgmt.msc work? If that doesn't then it's not a Classic Shell related issue. |
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