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Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 6:06 pm
Replies: 68 312821
I ended up having a program called StartKiller load for the restricted users which removed the start button, group policy to disable the windows key on the keyboard and using GP to put a shortcut to This PC (which only shows 1 network drive) & Printers on the desktop which is all the need access...
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 12:52 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Is there anyway to disable the start menu all together?
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2017 1:57 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Understood thanks, i will see if i can narrow it down for you.
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:54 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Any chance this will be looked at in the near future? As mentioned i am happy to provide a remote session.
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 3:33 pm
Replies: 68 312821
All I can say as a certainty at the moment is that a user with no policies to lock down the desktop, start menu or taskbar work fine and users with policies applied (not just classic shell policies) experience the issue. I have had to take a break from it for now, at the moment it takes 2-4min of co...
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 2:48 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Hopefully this is helpful for you, using procexp I have viewed the threads and the thread that is open most is "ntdll.dll!RtlReleaseSRWLockExclusive+0x1370"
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 9:50 pm
Replies: 68 312821
At the moment i can't sorry, it's starting to do my head in =D have been playing with it for 4 straight days now trying to get to the bottom of it, just when i think i have it nailed it proves me wrong
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 8:31 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Seems to be when I apply a GP setting that affects the Start Menu, Taskbar or explorer. I have removed all policies that attempt to lock down start & taskbar and only have policies in User > Policies > Admin Templates > System & User > Policies > Admin Templates > Windows Components set and ...
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2017 2:36 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Ahh gotcha, I have spent a few hours on this now and have to retract my previous statement of it only affecting non-admin users. I am at a point where I have a set of security GPO applied the freezing issues occurs, when I remove the GPO the issue doesn't occur. Some of the settings are the specific...
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 2:47 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Gaurav wrote:
Btw this happens only on Windows 10 right? Does this happen with the latest Creators Update builds too?
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 8:12 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Hello all, I discovered today in my troubleshooting that the issue only appears for me when Classic Shell is run as an unprivilaged user (which is how i need it to be run) when run under an admin user the threads sit between 70 - 100 and i don't see any issues. I do see that by default the .exe is s...
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up
BigDog
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:13 pm
Replies: 68 312821
Has anyone made any progress with this?
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Start Menu keeps freezing Explorer
BigDog
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2017 2:05 pm
Replies: 21 83475
Did you have any success with this? I am in the same boat regarding the need to lock down the start menu and am experiencing the same freezing issue. No sorry, I wish :? We've just gone back to the basic Windows 10 start menu which we're still having issues with... We've finally figured a way to in...
Bug Reports Topic: Classic Start Menu keeps freezing Explorer
BigDog
Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:33 pm
Replies: 21 83475
Did you have any success with this? I am in the same boat regarding the need to lock down the start menu and am experiencing the same freezing issue.
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