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 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Change the look of the active task on the taskbar

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:53 pm 

Replies: 64
Views: 185526


Splitwirez Yes, that's what I want exactly. And what I get, too. But in some situations there's a need to enable the native Win8 look back. I'm trying to find a way to do this without entering an admin password. You can temporarily enable or disable Classic theme by changing the access rights to \S...

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Change the look of the active task on the taskbar

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:47 pm 

Replies: 64
Views: 185526


GCRaistlin wrote:
It may be a bit difficult to copy Wi-Fi key from KeePass on the login screen.


You can use a third-party Wi-Fi utility. Such as NetSetMan, for instance:

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Change the look of the active task on the taskbar

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:44 pm 

Replies: 64
Views: 185526


GCRaistlin wrote:
An addition to your bug list:
- standard Task Manager doesn't work. But Sysinternals' Process Explorer is better anyway.


I use this one:

http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-restore- ... windows-8/

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Change the look of the active task on the taskbar

Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2017 12:25 pm 

Replies: 64
Views: 185526


GCRaistlin wrote:
Is it possible to get this normal look on Win8?


If you like something like this (my Win 8.1):

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Run as a Service?

 Post subject: Re: Run as a Service?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:29 am 

Replies: 15
Views: 38228


Ivo wrote:
Yup, you are on your own :) I can't even begin to think of what can go wrong in such scenario...


Actually it is quite important thing to have a classic taskbar under Win10, and running Vista Explorer under Win10 is a solution, only if Classic Shell was working in this setup...

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Run as a Service?

 Post subject: Re: Run as a Service?
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2017 7:25 am 

Replies: 15
Views: 38228


It is the process that injects the DLL into Explorer. It also watches for Explorer being restarted to do the injection again. And it does some other non-essential work. So what if I put a bat file with it it into Autostart folder? It will start with Explorer, and then kill ClassicStartMenu.exe. Did...

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Run as a Service?

 Post subject: Re: Run as a Service?
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2017 10:43 am 

Replies: 15
Views: 38228


All of the start menu functionality runs inside the Explorer.exe process. The ClassicStartMenu.exe process is not important for performance. You can even kill it and the menu will still work. What this process is for then? Why not just to kill it every time? Is it possible to run Classic Shell with...

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Please make Classic Shell open source again

Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 5:12 pm 

Replies: 11
Views: 31929


As Ivo said, there were multiple different "Classic Shell" installers, almost all of them hardly different from the original but commercial. Some others were bundling adware/crapware along with the installer! People complained after installing the wrong "Classic Shell" from else...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Classic Start Menu for Windows RT

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2016 8:50 am 

Replies: 8
Views: 39198


There will be non-locked windows 10 on ARM in 2017.

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Classic Shell commands in the menu rather than toolbar

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:43 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 21977


Ivo wrote:
As far as I know the menu is not customizable. Also, in most versions of Windows there is no menu.


Some shell extensions add items to the menu (for instance, add network drive etc). The menu can be easy enabled on Win8.1 and Win10.

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Change Windows 7 Folder Icons

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:35 pm 

Replies: 16
Views: 61818


Any chance of getting that fix to work on Windows 7 too? No, you cannot disable folder thumbnails separately in win7. You can change the default folder icon, but it will be replaced with thumbnail icon whereever Windows creates a thumbnail. You can disable all thumbnails on Win7 though, this includ...

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Why Microsoft is waging war on Classic Shell?

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:31 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 71154


⋅ DWM: You need this? There are many free programs for XP that give transparency and Aero snap. And most of them do it using less resources than Aero. I need it. I hate tearing. Honestly there was a way to get rid of tearing under XP that I used. One needs an old Nvidia hardware and the o...

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Why Microsoft is waging war on Classic Shell?

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2016 7:24 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 71154


there is no date the OS will simply refuse to boot... so you could use 8.1 indefinitely :P. You would just need to torrent a copy of the latest service-pack if you needed to reinstall, once microsoft stops sharing the files :P I never said anything about timebombs. But software developers will only...

 Forum: Translations   Topic: Fixed Russian translation

Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2016 8:06 am 

Replies: 36
Views: 167080


I have seen a lot of typos, this is two of them.

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Classic Shell commands in the menu rather than toolbar

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:43 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 21977


Is it possible to implement the possibility to add Classic Shell commands to the Explorer's menu rather than using the toolbar?

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Microsoft Windows 10 (B1607) Anniversary Update Clock?

Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2016 2:04 pm 

Replies: 11
Views: 68968


It was introduced in Win95 and remained into Windows 8.1.



Nadella is killing everything that defined Windows.

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Windows 10 killed Classic Start

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:39 pm 

Replies: 7
Views: 19245


[highlight=#ececec]I've been a Windows user for over 20 years, but i'm moving on. Luckily i don't need to move tomorrow, i have a few years. I'm currently mastering Linux and believe it's my solution. I'm hoping Linux gets even more complete and user friendly in the next few...

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Windows 10 killed Classic Start

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 3:12 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 19245


Why to use W10 at all?

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Why Microsoft is waging war on Classic Shell?

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:22 pm 

Replies: 27
Views: 71154


Just wonder.

 Forum: Start Buttons   Topic: Classic Button (Russian)

 Post subject: Classic Button (Russian)
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:47 am 

Replies: 1
Views: 17553


 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Full ClearType (color) subpixel anti-aliasing in IE10

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:43 am 

Replies: 3
Views: 20585


IE9/IE10/IE11 use DirectWrite to render text and Microsoft has offered no control over the ClearType implementation in DirectWrite, not even an IE specific setting. There were app-specific hacks by some developers ( http://blog.softwareninjas.ca/2011/03/how-to-take-control-of-internet.html ) for IE...

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Concerning FFlags

 Post subject: Re: Concerning FFlags
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 2:35 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 17946


The tweak switches the Explorer control from ItemsView to SysListView32. In the older control, there is one less View. Tiles View becomes Extended Tiles (similar to Content View of the newer control), the List View also gets full row selection like the Details view, and there is no regular Tiles Vi...

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Concerning FFlags

 Post subject: Re: Concerning FFlags
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 9:42 pm 

Replies: 7
Views: 17946


I tried FWF_DESKTOP. It seems to break the scroll bar in Explorer and the "List View" turns into "Small Icons view" - so this change is not without unwanted side effects. Yes, the icons get aligned vertically. But this can be fixed by removing certain attributes from ListView co...

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Concerning FFlags

 Post subject: Re: Concerning FFlags
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 3:24 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 17946


According to what Ivo told me, Classic Shell's Explorer component does it programmatically without any reg keys. Folder Options X also does it programmatically? If you do it via Registry keys, it sometimes messes up the view of other folder templates. Folder Options X actually does it via registry ...

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Concerning FFlags

 Post subject: Concerning FFlags
Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 2:08 pm 

Replies: 7
Views: 17946


Classic Explorer has a feature "Show sorting headers in all view modes". I think it is done via modifying FFlags key in the registry at runtime (if I am wrong please correct me). If it is so, then more interesting things can be done with that key. Particularly, the utility Folder Options X...

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Is there a good way to remove Classic Explorer panel?

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:52 pm 

Replies: 5
Views: 16850


Well, you are right, it also disables Explorer BHO by default. Well, if to disable Classic Explorer Bar only, the menu item for it still there, but greyed. I think I would not get any closer than this, and it is at least better than having non-greyed and non-working item. Thanks.

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Is there a good way to remove Classic Explorer panel?

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 1:34 pm 

Replies: 5
Views: 16850


This removed the status bar as well, which I do use.

 Forum: Classic Explorer   Topic: Is there a good way to remove Classic Explorer panel?

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 6:37 am 

Replies: 5
Views: 16850


I use certain features of Classic Explorer (like the status bar) but I do not use the panel. I tried to disable its shell extension but the context menu item for Classic Explorer panel still remains. Is there a good way to disable the panel entirely and get rid of the menu item as well?

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Show your desktop and Classic Shell Start Menu

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 1:30 pm 

Replies: 137
Views: 812709


Win 8.1:

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Windows-style start menu positioning

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2016 6:38 am 

Replies: 13
Views: 30188


If you think about what is said here: [highlight=#dce1e5]You seem to be using a custom theme that may be adding an extra edge to the taskbar. [/highlight] You might realize there is an alternative route to acomplish what you are looking for, IE use classic shell to make the taskbar clear, and then ...

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Windows-style start menu positioning

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 9:13 pm 

Replies: 13
Views: 30188


My request was to make the start menu looking exactly like in Windows, like I was accustomed to. Additionally, positioning of start menu over the start button creates an increased 3D push effect. I have just checked Windows 7 and, indeed its start menu is positioned like it is currently done in Clas...

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Windows-style start menu positioning

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:32 am 

Replies: 13
Views: 30188


So is it possible to make it work as on the WinXP picture above?

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Windows-style start menu positioning

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2016 1:23 pm 

Replies: 13
Views: 30188


Ivo wrote:
The menu is intentionally behind the taskbar, because otherwise the shadow will look weird.


This is Windows XP, here we can see the shadow, but I would not call it weird, it seems nice to me:

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Windows-style start menu positioning

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:40 am 

Replies: 13
Views: 30188


In Windows the Classic start menu at least in Classic theme appears not on the top of taskbar but immediately on the top of the Start button. It is also shifted to the right from the screen edge, matching the Start Button as well. Can an option be added to position the Start menu exactly like Window...

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Change Windows 7 Folder Icons

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2016 4:35 am 

Replies: 16
Views: 61818


They are stored in multiple dlls, for instance, in dmdskres.dll

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: Windows 10 blocks Classic Shell

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 3:14 am 

Replies: 10
Views: 27350


You all do know that windows 10 does not allow the all users access to the admin account? They injected that in the Aug updates, the only way around it I have found is to go to the properties of the shortcut, hit the advanced button and select run as admin. I have had to do that to ANY app that cha...

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: Win10 Anniv update removed and blocks Classic Shell

Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 2:54 am 

Replies: 6
Views: 14268


Smart Screen can be disabled. But I think Microsoft will combat CS hardly because they make money on the start menu tiles.

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: The first toolbar next to Start button is not movable.

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 11:04 am 

Replies: 4
Views: 9820


You can make a custom button that looks like the classic button. It won't pick up the theme color. For now a better solution is adding an empty toolbar: http://storage5.static.itmages.ru/i/16/0611/h_1465668207_2602430_ddb9290674.png But I wondered whether it was a bug that one could not move the fi...

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: The first toolbar next to Start button is not movable.

Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2016 5:55 am 

Replies: 4
Views: 9820


That's how the taskbar has worked since Windows 95. You can add extra space by editing the bitmap of the start button. I am using the standard Classic button, no image. While it indeed turned out that some trouble was due to a third-party dll, now I am running it without any third-party resident pr...

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: The first toolbar next to Start button is not movable.

Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:51 pm 

Replies: 4
Views: 9820


Even if the taskbar is unlocked, the first toolbar next to Start button is not movable.

This is especially annoying because the distance between the Start button and the first toolbar is too small. One has to add an empty toolbar to work around the problem.

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: 4.2.7 beta crashes

 Post subject: Re: 4.2.7 beta crashes
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 2:47 pm 

Replies: 3
Views: 8761


If I will succeed to repeat this behavior I will make a proper dump. As of now I made system restore and changed a lot of software.

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: 4.2.7 beta crashes

 Post subject: 4.2.7 beta crashes
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2016 3:11 am 

Replies: 3
Views: 8761


Initially it was OK, but then I tried to set a background picture for taskbar and deleted the file. Then the Classic Shell started to crash, and continued even after I put the file back. I installed the 4.2.5 version and the crashes stopped.

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: Open common menu item in context menu does not work

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:26 pm 

Replies: 2
Views: 7189


Check if you have turned off "Enable Windows Explorer" on context menu tab in Start menu settings. Yes, it is enabled. When I click on "open common menu", just nothing happens. No error message and anything. Also when clicking "open" on some of the subfolders of the Pr...

 Forum: Bug Reports   Topic: Open common menu item in context menu does not work

Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2016 1:22 pm 

Replies: 2
Views: 7189


 Forum: Taskbar Skins   Topic: New taskbar options

 Post subject: Re: New taskbar options
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 1:22 am 

Replies: 105
Views: 639962


Quote:
Uh...Annixx? Isn't that what we already have?


I was talking about Windows 10. Do you mean you know how to remove styling from Win10 taskbar?

 Forum: Taskbar Skins   Topic: New taskbar options

 Post subject: Re: New taskbar options
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 12:26 am 

Replies: 105
Views: 639962


Got it. Still, the way the taskbar skinning is done (the texture and text color, not the overall color) is by affecting the theme. No theme, no skinning. For the same reason it doesn't work on Windows 7 with Classic Theme. Is it possible to totally remove the skinning from the taskbar so it to appe...

 Forum: Chitchat   Topic: Older versions

 Post subject: Re: Older versions
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 1:51 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 24623


NoahNicholsFourm wrote:
Anixx wrote:
I use the older version 4.1.0


Why? Because of problems with the latest version?


Yes: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4555

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Option to disable Metro completely

Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 8:00 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 17158


Splitwirez wrote:
Anixx wrote:
It at least works well for me.


BTW, any chance you could mirror it somewhere where one doesn't need to register to download it? .___.


Done:

http://winclassic.boards.net/thread/16/ ... rollTo=115

 Forum: Classic Start Menu   Topic: Custom Title Bar Color For Windows 10

Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 7:45 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 18053


Use older Windows version. Microsoft is currently removing features from their operating system rapidly. They somehow decided that less customizations is better, because somebody said them they should be like Mac OS. Nadella even wears jeans in the same fashion as Jobs.

 Forum: Feature Requests   Topic: Option to disable Metro completely

Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 3:44 am 

Replies: 7
Views: 17158


It at least works well for me.
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