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wombat
PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:23 pm 
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Before doing the update the Win tile page did not show on startup, opened at Desktop

now after doing the update in Win 8 it opens and loads all the tiles and then the Desktop opens.

How can I fix this? so that it opens at the desktop ?

Your expert help would be appreciated.
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Ivo
PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:24 am 
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Are you saying that you see the tiles for a moment and then go to the desktop? How long does it take for the desktop to show?
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wombat
PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2014 11:34 pm 
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Sorry for the delay, I have had problems loging in.
running Win 8
The tile's show up for 10-15 seconds then goes to desktop, this happened after I tried to upgrade to ver 4.1.0 during my upgrade attempt I get






and I am stiull left with ver 4.0.4 not 4.1.0
can you suggest a solution to my problem.
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Ivo
PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2014 10:01 am 
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Manually uninstall version 4.0.4 first from the control panel. If you get errors about permissions, download the installer 4.0.4 and use the Remove option. If that also doesn't work, run the installer for 4.0.4 as admin.
Once you uninstalled 4.0.4, restart and then install 4.1.0.
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wombat
PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2014 3:55 pm 
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thank you Ivo, will do that and report back here.

where can I get the installer? would that be the original exe I downloaded ?
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Ivo
PostPosted: Sun May 11, 2014 4:28 pm 
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You can get old versions from here: http://classicshell.net/downloads/
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wombat
PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2014 8:55 pm 
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Ivo wrote:
Manually uninstall version 4.0.4 first from the control panel. If you get errors about permissions, download the installer 4.0.4 and use the Remove option. If that also doesn't work, run the installer for 4.0.4 as admin.
Once you uninstalled 4.0.4, restart and then install 4.1.0.



Hi Ivo, I did as you suggested and on delete from Control Panel I get the same permissions problem so I re-installed 4.0.4 and used the remove tab and still the same permission problem, I then did not have CS on my system (Win8) so I reinstalled ver 4.0.4 but i still cannot instal ver 4.1.0
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Gaurav
PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2014 12:32 am 
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Right click version 4.0.4's installer and choose "Run as administrator" and then uninstall/remove it. Does that work without errors? After that download 4.1.0 and run its installer. Also, please state your OS. Is it Windows 8 or Windows 8.1?

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wombat
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Still the same, cannot delete 4.0.4 without the errors, :( Win 8

thank you for your help GauravK
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wombat
PostPosted: Wed May 21, 2014 3:02 pm 
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Ivo
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You can try manually deleting the contents of the Program Files\Classic Shell folder. Before you do that exit the start menu (right-click on the start button, then Exit). If you have problems deleting the ClassicExplorer dlls, rename them and then restart.

Hopefully after deleting all files the uninstaller will succeed.
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wombat
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My system has crashed after a Windows Update, I am just waiting for Dell to send a tech guy to fix it so will try this when its all up and running again, will come back here with any feedback.

Thank you for your help Ivo and GauravK
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