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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Option to disable Metro completely |
| Anixx |
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 6:42 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Maybe this post will help: http://www.eightforums.com/customization/10630-there-way-disable-metro-interface-2.html#post539994 Disclaimer: Classic Shell is not responsible for third party software or shady VBS scripts. As you can see, it is the script I have created. It it not guaranteed to work. If... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Option to disable Metro completely |
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Posted: Sat May 14, 2016 2:11 pm
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Replies: 7
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| Even if one does not use Metro, it is still running, consuming processor power and disk throughput share. The only way to disable Metro is to kill this thread in Procass Hacker/Process Explorer: http://storage4.static.itmages.ru/i/16/0514/h_1463260085_2062844_4993bcba6d.png It would be great if Clas... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Address toolbar too close to Start (Win 8.1). |
| Anixx |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:53 am
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Replies: 4
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| I have already complained about this: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4555 This is the reason I cannot use Classic Shell newer than 4.1.0. Classic Shell 4.1: http://storage3.static.itmages.ru/i/15/0424/h_1429867717_7835386_c50ce69bbc.png All is perfect. Classic Shell 4.2.1... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Change Windows 7 Folder Icons |
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:36 am
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Replies: 16
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This reg file changes the folder icon and disables the folder thumbnails so that all folders to use the same icon (other thumbnails remain).
This works only on Windows 8 (and, maybe, Win10)!
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Disabling Live Folders |
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Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:10 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 18910
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| This reg file does the trick. |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: move windows 7 explorer address bar to under menubar&toolbar |
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:44 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 13432
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It can be removed.
This screenshot is from Windows 8.1.
I use this AHK script: |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Disabling Live Folders |
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:47 pm
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Replies: 3
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| In case anybody interested, there is a way on Windows 8 (and maybe 10) to disable Live Folders: the folders would not be shown as thumbnails while all other thumbnails will remain functioning. Disable the "Typed Data Thumbnail Handler" shell extension with ShellExView utility. After I had ... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Change Windows 7 Folder Icons |
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Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2016 11:44 pm
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Replies: 16
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This reg file makes icons like this:
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: navigation buttons on the CE panel |
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2015 12:12 am
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Replies: 10
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Gaurav wrote: Nice icons. It's a shame Microsoft didn't make them bigger.
There are bigger versions in files netshell.dll and xpsrchvw.exe but they are turned 90 degrees (i.e. pointing up and down). A green version is also in wlangpui.exe and cliconfig.rll, also up and down. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: navigation buttons on the CE panel |
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Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:59 pm
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Replies: 10
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Thanks, it looks great!
...and also the up-button can be used... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic taskbar for windows 10 |
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:15 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 72131
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Do you have a screenshot of Vista's explorer under Win10 with Classic theme?
Have you tried Win8's Explorer? |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Add classic theme support |
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 6:12 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 18172
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| the fact that many essential OS components (e.g. TASK MANAGER) are not compatible with it. Not a big problem, actually http://winaero.com/download.php?view.1784 I've had no problems running Classic Shell 4.2.something (I forget what) on Windows 10 with the Classic Theme enabled... These are the pro... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Add classic theme support |
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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:51 am
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Replies: 6
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| Last I checked, the whole point of a usability aid like Classic Shell was to make the OS MORE usable, not LESS ... Classic theme is much more usable. I think Classic Shell should support classic theme at least on Windows 8. There are multiple methods of enebling Clssic theme on Windows 8 (summarize... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: navigation buttons on the CE panel |
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 8:42 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 24796
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Thse ones:
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic taskbar for windows 10 |
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 8:38 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 72131
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| I had tried XP explorer on Win7 or Win8 and as I recall, the tray does not work there. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: navigation buttons on the CE panel |
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:48 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 24796
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| Don't you know, where in Windows I can find back and forward buttons used in MMC? |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 5:16 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 45077
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| I have updated also the download file in the beginnig of the topic. This script does not remove the address bar, only fixes the border: #NoTrayIcon #NoEnv Gui +LastFound hWnd := WinExist() SetControlDelay, -1 DllCall( "RegisterShellHookWindow", UInt,hWnd ) MsgNum := DllCall( "Register... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Right-click context menu on "This PC" |
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:26 pm
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Replies: 3
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Try this:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FlightedFeatures\ImmersiveContextMenu = 0 |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 2:28 pm
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Replies: 19
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| This is an updated script. It supports navigational mode browsing (open each folder in separate window) and the navigational tree. It also removes the address bar. Remember that you would need to use the Folder Options X utility as described above for the fixed borders to work. The executable for th... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: navigation buttons on the CE panel |
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:44 am
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Replies: 10
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| Some people very much dislike the Windows navigation bar primarily for its huge vertical size and disable it. Some of them also use third-party navigation bars, but they often work unreliably. It would be great to have forward, back buttons and address bar on the Classic Explorer toolbar so that it ... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: A True Classic Explorer, Images, Menu Bar |
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Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:36 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 100139
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| Yes, I fully support the idea of making fully classic explorer like in Win95-XP. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: option to have separate "Go" menu |
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Posted: Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:17 pm
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Replies: 1
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| In Windows 7 and 8 the "Go" menu entry is a submenu of the "View" pull-down menu entry. In Windows 95 till XP there was a separate pull-down menu entry "Go". Is it possible to move this "Go" entry to the place it occupied in Win95-XP, that is to a separate pul... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic Explorer: 32px icons with labels below |
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 10:20 pm
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Replies: 2
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| I most of all like the 32px icon size but since Vista if you set the size to 32px, the labels appear to the right of the icon rather than below. Is there a way to make the size 32px but still keeping the labels below? Also a separate menu entry to quickly switch to this size would be great. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Classic taskbar for windows 10 |
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:26 pm
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Replies: 18
Views: 72131
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| Is this XP's explorer? I think it should not be much functional. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Option to remove the Metro applications menu? |
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Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 2:27 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 11020
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Gaurav wrote: Classic Shell 4.2.5 adds an Uninstall command for Metro apps to the context menu.
I use Classic Shell 4.1.0 because later versions are not compaticle with Classic theme on Windows 8. |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Older versions |
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2015 5:33 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I use the older version 4.1.0 |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:28 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 45077
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Quote: Your .exe's that you included didn't seem to popup on my system either. I turned avast off so I could run them, but that didn't seem to work.
Follow the advice above, install Folder Options X, check "Enable Icon Reordering" and then run my script. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to reset Classic Shell icon cache? |
| Anixx |
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Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 1:37 am
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Replies: 5
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Gaurav wrote: Are you not using the latest version of Classic Shell? In an older release, Datacache.db was stored at %appdata%\ClassicShell
I cannot use the latest version due to this issue:
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4555 |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to reset Classic Shell icon cache? |
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:51 pm
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Replies: 5
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| But after I did the same in Roaming it worked! |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to reset Classic Shell icon cache? |
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:49 pm
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Replies: 5
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| Just did it, it does not work. Relogin also does not help. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: How to reset Classic Shell icon cache? |
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Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 3:55 pm
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Replies: 5
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| I have changed the default folder icon, but Classic Shell still displays submenus with the older one. Only newly installed programs are displayed with the new icons. How can I reset Classic Shell icons cache? |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2015 5:46 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I think I'm going to be looking at some of the third party search tools. Most of the time when I'm running a search I know roughly where something is, and liked being able to limit the search to the folder I'm in along with any subfolders. If you find a good utility, please share it. Having to use ... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:49 pm
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Replies: 19
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| EDIT (yes, nearly twelve whole hours later) - Anixx, I'm also curious as to how you have searching set up. I realized there is a problem if I hide the search box and/or the address bar. You can press Ctrl+F and type the things you want to search. The words will appear in the caption of the window. ... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:40 pm
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Replies: 19
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| I've been wanting a fix for this forever. I found this after looking through your other posts on this forum after seeing your screenshot in the AHK Script to remove Address bar thread which had this fixed. It doesn't seem to work for me though - running borderfix.exe (shows in task manager) and ope... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
| Anixx |
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:38 pm
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Replies: 19
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Jcee wrote: Zero dump, it said somewhere that the developer is no-longer working on it, so its likely not to work on win 10. though it should on 7
It works on Win8.1. It should work on Win10 as well. |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:04 pm
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Replies: 19
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| This script combines the two tasks: removes the address bar and adds the 3D border. Note though that it works properly only when "open each folder in separate window" option is enabled. |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Utility to have 3D border around folders |
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Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:01 pm
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Replies: 19
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Jcee wrote: Are you refering to Anixx's ahk script? or the one in the first post?
The first one was abandoned, but windows 7 is old enough that it might still be compatible.
Sorry, but what is abandoned? |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2015 7:29 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| Classic theme on any operating system, Win8 or Win10 can now be enabled using only Microsoft-provided tools. Using the handle utility from Sysinternals use the following command to enable the Classic theme for all newly started applications: @FOR /F "tokens=3,6 delims=: " %%A IN ('Handle T... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: AHK Script to remove Address bar |
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 11:39 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 19703
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| I have updated the script and the executable. Now it works better! |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Windows 8 logo for Classic button |
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Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:33 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 17117
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| A much better icon can be found in %SystemRoot%\System32\GWX\GWX.exe which comes with an update! |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Microsoft and Classic Shell |
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 3:32 pm
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Replies: 11
Views: 30217
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| And as mentioned earlier, less customization = easier troubleshooting, so that's less work for support. Less customization = more third-party utilities and hacks which are not always compatible with each other. This of course does not apply to Apple because their users are willing to accept whateve... |
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Forum: Start Buttons Topic: Windows 8 logo for Classic button |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:36 pm
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Replies: 4
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There are also a white and a blue Win8 logos in C:\Windows\system32\wucltux.dll in Windows 8/8.1 only (but not Windows 7 or Windows 10).
And a colored Windows 7 logo in C:\Windows\system32\Winver.exe. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 4:19 pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| By the way, a workaround for the too close position of Quick Launch and the start button is to create an empty launch bar in between. Still I hope this problem to be fixed somehow in the future versions. Currently sticking with 4.1 anyway at least as long as I am on Win8 because of incompatibility w... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 7:28 am
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Replies: 27
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| Also I wonder why the 4.2.1 version is not compatible with the above script. If it moves the Quick Launch, why it alwatys adds the x-coordinate rather than to put it in a definite position? |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 7:10 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| The default button, when not using any other utilities, eats 1 pixel from the first Quick Launch button, making its left edge invisible And is that also happening without Classic Shell? If so, then the fault of eating pixels is not related to Classic Shell, but to the classic theme hack. It is rela... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:16 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| Do you see similar issues if you stick with the default Windows 8.1 button? The default button, when not using any other utilities, eats 1 pixel from the first Quick Launch button, making its left edge invisible: http://storage2.static.itmages.ru/i/15/0425/h_1429953129_1783969_0f9e514f21.png I expe... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:06 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| An example of mis-behavior of the 4.2.1 version. Here is an AutoHotKey script. It moves (adjusts) the taskbar elements vertically. Under 4.1 it works as it should. Under 4.2.1 each time it runs, the Quick Launsh also shifted horizontally by about 2 cm. There is nothing such thing in the script. So i... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:46 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| It remains an unsupported scenario because multiple programs are trying to manipulate position of UI elements on the taskbar. With the default Windows 8 theme, there are a few pixels between the Classic button and the Quick Launch. There are several programs that disable theming on Win8. The most e... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 2:32 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| Classic Shell 4.1: http://storage3.static.itmages.ru/i/15/0424/h_1429867717_7835386_c50ce69bbc.png All is perfect. Classic Shell 4.2.1: http://storage4.static.itmages.ru/i/15/0424/h_1429867754_2853409_f8114dabfd.png No space between the first Quick Launch button and the Start Button. Also I have not... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic button position problem after updating to 4.2.1 |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 1:52 am
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Replies: 27
Views: 96712
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| Well, looks like you have 3 separate programs that all try to mess with the layout of the taskbar. That's not at all supported. They can't all get their way. You have to disable the taskbar features for two of them. For Classic Shell this means to disable the custom start button and use the default... |
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