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 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Making "Show desktop" button visible in Windows 8 / 8.1 ?

Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2014 9:24 am 

Replies: 8
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This is what I did and it works fine:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190355

Take that shortcut and put it on your taskbar.

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Vertical location of start button -- can it be changed?

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 8:38 am 

Replies: 2
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Thank you for this. I made the image a little wider to give it some padding, especially on the left. I run Win8.1 in a VM and this seems to help.

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Vertical location of start button -- can it be changed?

Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 10:26 am 

Replies: 2
Views: 13244


I use the "Classic button." I'd like to be able to change its location to match my Win7 machine. On Win7 the start button butts up against the top of the task bar, but under Classic Shell on Win8.1, it's floating vertically in the middle. Can this be changed? Here's what I see: http://imag...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Windows 2000 Style?

 Post subject: Re: Windows 2000 Style?
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:46 am 

Replies: 17
Views: 110222


Ugh...I just installed that theme. Some of the colors are getting closer to what I want, but yeah, it's not good. It's very clunky. Reminds me of some of the weird themes in Win 3.1 :) Oh well, I figured after all these years that MS would finally f**k up Windows to the extent that I don't want to u...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Windows 2000 Style?

 Post subject: Re: Windows 2000 Style?
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:14 am 

Replies: 17
Views: 110222


Is there any way to get the Win2000 theme in Win8? I played around with the registry and got it to accept the font I want for Active/Inactive titlebar, but it won't accept colors. I'd also like to get the taskbar back to the Win2000 style.
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