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Classic Start Menu Topic: using "Desktops" software leaves you with no start menu.
morthawt
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 7:52 pm
Replies: 12 32678
No. Regardless of if you exit the original exe or not, it will not work on any of the additional desktops.
Classic Start Menu Topic: using "Desktops" software leaves you with no start menu.
morthawt
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:50 am
Replies: 12 32678
Okay. There is only 1 exe running by default. If you try and load another copy of the program on new desktops on windows 8 it does nothing. However I just tried the same thing on windows 7 and when I loaded another copy of the exe on another desktop it did actually load up classicshell and the icon ...
Classic Start Menu Topic: using "Desktops" software leaves you with no start menu.
morthawt
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:37 am
Replies: 12 32678
I just verified it does the same thing on Windows 7 x64. It fails to load on all desktops created via the Desktops program. It only works on the main normal desktop. Remember, the desktops created from the program are real and legitimate windows desktops. This should be looked into by the developer ...
Classic Start Menu Topic: using "Desktops" software leaves you with no start menu.
morthawt
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 10:00 am
Replies: 12 32678
I personally run windows 8 but I have a windows 7 VMWare machine I can try it on. I will report back in a bit once I test it.
Classic Start Menu Topic: using "Desktops" software leaves you with no start menu.
morthawt
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 9:46 am
Replies: 12 32678
Yes you get taskbars on each one. The way Desktops works is it starts a whole new shell and everything. It is just as if you logged in to windows again. But Classicshell does not work on any of the other desktops created. Also, they are not "fake" desktops... they are actual desktops, the ...
Classic Start Menu Topic: using "Desktops" software leaves you with no start menu.
morthawt
Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:20 am
Replies: 12 32678
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx That software lets you have a total of 4 desktops so that you can organize what you are doing and swap between them. The problem is with classicshell you only have a start menu on the original desktop and no start menu on any of the other...
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