Classic Shell: Forum

I installed Classic Shell 4.2.4 on a PC that had 32bit windows 10 installed. It worked fine until I booted the machine up on 10th September 2015.
What happened then was that the PC didn't boot into the desktop as before but started with a full screen win 10 start screen. ( Normally the win 10 start screen is a smaller window) I could not find any way to get back to the smaller window and the Classic Start button didn't do anything.

I uninstalled Classic Shell but on rebooting still got the full screen win 10 start screen with an incorrectly functioning start button.
I only managed to get win 10 to behave normally by logging on to a different user.

It appears that a windows 10 update on or a few days before 10th September has caused this problem with Classic Shell and that a user profile has been corrupted.

In your usual user account, tablet mode may have got turned on. When it is on, the desktop cannot show. To fix it, press Win+A keys to show the Notification Center/Action Center from the user account where you are having this trouble and press the "Tablet mode" button again to turn it off. Then you can reinstall Classic Shell.

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I am a Windows enthusiast and helped a little with Classic Shell's testing and usability/UX feedback.

Thanks GauravK

You were absolutely right. Tablet mode had somehow accidentally been turned on.
Once I turned it off and reinstalled Classic Shell, everything worked as expected.

Thanks for the prompt solution