Classic Shell: Forum

Hi all.
Running Win 8.1 and Classic Shell 4.1.0. I've been trying to have the hibernate button show as default rather than shut down when I
click the start button. In Win 7 it's a simple matter of right clicking the start button and going into properties.
I exited Classic Shell for the standard right click options in Win 8.1 but the option to change is not apparent to me there either.
The computer hibernates alright when I choose that option on the start button and does not wake up but why can't I set hibernate to
show as default?
i tried everything shown in the second post here, with elevated permissions:
http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=76
It seems that the option is not supported in Win 8.
In the Customize Start Menu settings, hibernate has been double clicked and it's now showing where shut down was.
Can anyone please offer me a solution to this problem if there is one? That the change start menu power button option is stated to
be supported only on Win Server 2008 R2 and Win 7 concerns me.
It's simple enough to click start and choose hibernate though I'd be pleased to remove that extra step.
Also, the desktop icons when hovered or single-clicked have a rectangular shadow of sorts highlighting them. I don't know whether
they are related to Classic Shell or not but if someone could advise me the way to turn that off I'd be very grateful. A few
attempts have been unsuccessful.
Thanks in advance.

The group policy is only for Windows 7 because Windows 8 doesn't have a start menu.

I suspect you changed the command in Classic Shell but didn't change the label, or something like that.
Save your start menu settings to XML file (the Backup button at the bottom) and attach it here.

Classic Shell does not control the look of the icons on the Desktop.

Ok, Thanks for your reply. Here's the text from the XML file:


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings component="StartMenu" version="4.1.0">
<MenuStyle value="Classic2"/>
<ShiftClick value="Nothing"/>
<ShiftWin value="Nothing"/>
<Computer value="Hide"/>
<Documents value="Hide"/>
<UserDocuments value="Hide"/>
<UserPictures value="Hide"/>
<ControlPanel value="Menu"/>
<Network value="Hide"/>
<Printers value="Hide"/>
<Shutdown value="Menu"/>
<LogOff value="1"/>
<Undock value="0"/>
<Search value="0"/>
<Help value="0"/>
<Run value="1"/>
<PinnedPrograms value="FastItems"/>
<RecentPrograms value="None"/>
<ShutdownCommand value="CommandHibernate"/>
<HybridShutdown value="0"/>
<CheckWinUpdates value="0"/>
<MenuShadow value="0"/>
<NoTaskbarTransparency2 value="1"/>
<AeroGlass value="0"/>
<SkinC2 value="Classic Skin"/>
<SkinVariationC2 value=""/>
<SkinOptionsC2 value="E55CEDD2|C26EAF5C|86F3669C|5225DC46|5D3248DD|E87963C2|80316ABE|"/>
<SkinW7 value="Windows 8"/>
<SkinVariationW7 value=""/>
<SkinOptionsW7 value="C26EAF5C|5D3248DC|1FC64124|5EA361A2|6EDFA36A|2E838408|22C9A1E2|0663DC38|"/>
<EnableStartButton value="1"/>
<StartButtonType value="ClasicButton"/>
<SkipMetro value="1"/>
<DisableHotCorner value="DisableAll"/>
<MenuItems2>
<Line>Items=ProgramsMenu,SearchBoxItem,COLUMN_BREAK,FavoritesItem,ComputerItem,ControlPanelItem,SecurityItem,NetworkItem,PrintersItem,SEPARATOR,RunItem,SEPARATOR,ShutdownBoxItem</Line>
<Line>ProgramsMenu.Command=programs</Line>
<Line>ProgramsMenu.Label=$Menu.Programs</Line>
<Line>ProgramsMenu.Icon=shell32.dll,326</Line>
<Line>SearchBoxItem.Command=search_box</Line>
<Line>SearchBoxItem.Label=$Menu.SearchBox</Line>
<Line>SearchBoxItem.Icon=none</Line>
<Line>SearchBoxItem.Settings=OPEN_UP|TRACK_RECENT</Line>
<Line>FavoritesItem.Command=favorites</Line>
<Line>FavoritesItem.Label=$Menu.Favorites</Line>
<Line>FavoritesItem.Icon=shell32.dll,322</Line>
<Line>ComputerItem.Command=computer</Line>
<Line>ControlPanelItem.Command=control_panel</Line>
<Line>ControlPanelItem.Label=$Menu.ControlPanel</Line>
<Line>ControlPanelItem.Tip=$Menu.ControlPanelTip</Line>
<Line>ControlPanelItem.Icon=shell32.dll,137</Line>
<Line>ControlPanelItem.Settings=TRACK_RECENT</Line>
<Line>SecurityItem.Command=windows_security</Line>
<Line>SecurityItem.Label=$Menu.Security</Line>
<Line>SecurityItem.Tip=$Menu.SecurityTip</Line>
<Line>SecurityItem.Icon=shell32.dll,48</Line>
<Line>NetworkItem.Command=network_connections</Line>
<Line>NetworkItem.Label=$Menu.Network</Line>
<Line>NetworkItem.Tip=$Menu.NetworkTip</Line>
<Line>NetworkItem.Icon=shell32.dll,257</Line>
<Line>PrintersItem.Command=printers</Line>
<Line>PrintersItem.Label=$Menu.Printers</Line>
<Line>PrintersItem.Tip=$Menu.PrintersTip</Line>
<Line>PrintersItem.Icon=shell32.dll,138</Line>
<Line>RunItem.Command=run</Line>
<Line>RunItem.Label=$Menu.Run</Line>
<Line>RunItem.Tip=$Menu.RunTip</Line>
<Line>RunItem.Icon=shell32.dll,328</Line>
<Line>ShutdownBoxItem.Items=LockItem,HibernateItem,RestartItem,ShutdownItem</Line>
<Line>ShutdownBoxItem.Command=shutdown_box</Line>
<Line>ShutdownBoxItem.Label=$Menu.ShutdownBox</Line>
<Line>ShutdownBoxItem.Icon=shell32.dll,329</Line>
<Line>ShutdownBoxItem.Settings=SPLIT</Line>
<Line>LockItem.Command=lock</Line>
<Line>LockItem.Label=$Menu.Lock</Line>
<Line>LockItem.Tip=$Menu.LockTip</Line>
<Line>LockItem.Icon=none</Line>
<Line>HibernateItem.Command=hibernate</Line>
<Line>HibernateItem.Label=$Menu.Hibernate</Line>
<Line>HibernateItem.Tip=$Menu.HibernateTip</Line>
<Line>HibernateItem.Icon=none</Line>
<Line>RestartItem.Command=restart</Line>
<Line>RestartItem.Label=$Menu.Restart</Line>
<Line>RestartItem.Tip=$Menu.RestartTip</Line>
<Line>RestartItem.Icon=none</Line>
<Line>ShutdownItem.Command=shutdown</Line>
<Line>ShutdownItem.Label=$Menu.Shutdown</Line>
<Line>ShutdownItem.Tip=$Menu.ShutdownTip</Line>
<Line>ShutdownItem.Icon=none</Line>
</MenuItems2>
</Settings>

Delete the entire "Shutdown dialog" tree in the menu items (right-click -> Delete Item) and then build the menu you want by dragging the items you want from the right column to the left.

By default those items don't have icons but you can add icons from the properties. For example "shell32.dll,329" is a good shutdown icon.

That's perfect, thankyou very much. A simple matter of editing the XML file then loading it has everything the way I like.