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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Open Outlook file in the search function |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:16 pm
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Replies: 1
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| Which version of Outlook? Which version of Windows? Outlook supports email, calendar items and appointments/tasks. Or do you mean attachment files in Outlook? |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Menu Item Drag, Folder Hover, Open Folder -> "How to Delay?" |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 10:55 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 772
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In Classic Start Menu Settings, type the following into the Search box at the top of the Settings window: delay
You can adjust the various delays there. Each setting has help in its tooltip/infotip which appears when you hover over it with the mouse. |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Toolbar no longer works under Windows 10 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 7:25 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 1031
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Does not work with a moved %SystemDrive%\Users folder |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2017 5:43 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 1582
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Uleti wrote: I do not know, what I do know is that the stock Windows 10 menu works fine, so perhaps there is a bug in Classic Shell?
The stock menu gets to use lots of undocumented/exclusive functions and APIs/methods not all of which are exposed to third party app developers. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Does not work with a moved %SystemDrive%\Users folder |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 10:40 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Classic Shell uses KNOWNFOLDERIDs, not environment variables. According to MSDN, KNOWNFOLDERIDs supersede both CSIDLs and environment variables and should be used because environment variables have insufficient coverage of Windows special folders. But it is possible that the KNOWNFOLDERIDs do not wo... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Aug 4 update KB 4021572 for Windows 10 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 10:19 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 1708
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| This means Explorer.exe is crashing. I know it's hard to recover out of this crashing loop but only a crash dump will allow determining the cause of the crash: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6 |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Aug 4 update KB 4021572 for Windows 10 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 12:04 pm
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Replies: 6
Views: 1708
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| Are you on Classic Shell 4.3.0 or an older version? |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Does not work with a moved %SystemDrive%\Users folder |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2017 12:02 pm
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Replies: 8
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| Microsoft's documentation here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/customize/desktop/unattend/microsoft-windows-shell-setup-folderlocations-profilesdirectory states: "We don’t recommend using this setting, except perhaps in a test environment." "Use this setting to move... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic Shell Start Menu causes explorer lock up |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 8:50 pm
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Replies: 68
Views: 22721
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| I think the smarter thing would be to avoid Windows 10 than to avoid Classic Shell! Just my two cents. Although if you find out what's causing the issue with the Start Menu and Explorer.exe on Windows 10, do let us know. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Windows 10 Anniversary, Creators and Fall Creators Update |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 9:15 pm
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Replies: 169
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| @DAOWAce, Classic Shell does not even load until after login when Explorer.exe has loaded so it should not affect boot or login in any way. If you think your Explorer.exe is becoming unresponsive, crashing or leaking memory, capture a crash dump as per these instructions: http://www.classicshell.net... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: StartIsBack skin |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2017 4:00 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 10178
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| That's great that you figured it out, Gaurav. Do you think you could have a couple pictures, to show everyone how easy it is to put in the label area of Customize Start Menu tab. Here are simple step-by-step instructions: 1. Right click the Start button and click Settings. 2. Check "Show all s... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: deploy classic shell start menu for all domain users AD2012 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 10:43 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 1143
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| Classic Shell automatically installs for all users on a computer and by default, it starts automatically for all users too when Windows boots. Open Classic Start Menu Settings and go to General Behavior tab. Check "Start automatically for this user" in the user account where it's not loadi... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Cannot Pin Windows 10 Maps to Taskbar after Classic Shell |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 10:34 pm
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Replies: 2
Views: 951
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| Your app seems to be damaged based on what you describe which is why you cannot pin it. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Default Start Menu Folders |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:08 am
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Replies: 1
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| You can just set the Hidden attribute on these folders from their Properties or using attrib.exe -h. All items with hidden attribute are not shown in the Classic Start Menu. You may have to do this twice: one for these folders in C:\Users\<YOUR USER ACCOUNT>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start M... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2017 4:32 am
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Replies: 94
Views: 67808
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Oh sure take your time. There is no need to hurry. I am thankful that you are future proofing it by updating it. You don't take donations, otherwise I would've sent some money to your PayPal.  |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: StartIsBack skin |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:40 pm
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Replies: 17
Views: 10178
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| Here are the glyphs for easy copy-pasting if anyone wants to use them in the Classic Start Menu: Note: These glyphs will display properly on Windows 7 and up with the Segoe UI Symbol font present. You might want to change the font used in your skin(s) to Segoe UI Symbol. The rest of the non-glyph ch... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Character Map Glyphs |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:37 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 3131
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| Here are the glyphs for easy copy-pasting if anyone wants to use them in the Classic Start Menu. Follow the instructions here: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5091#p33545 Note: These glyphs will display properly on Windows 7 and up with the Segoe UI Symbol font present. Yo... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin with glyph icons in column 2 to match Win10 taskbar? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2017 9:37 pm
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Replies: 25
Views: 21671
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| Here are the glyphs for easy copy-pasting if anyone wants to use them in the Classic Start Menu: Follow the instructions here: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5091#p33545 Note: These glyphs will display properly on Windows 7 and up with the Segoe UI Symbol font present. Yo... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic Start Menu crashes after update to Win 10 Ver 1703 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 5:35 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 2283
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| The link are not in my reply but it's my signature that appears below every post I make. If your crashes are gone, it means you already found the right driver and don't need to do anything else. Even without Classic Shell, simply opening Control Panel crashes Explorer.exe if the buggy driver file is... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Search uses contains instead of starts with |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:23 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1542
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| There are no plans to make it exactly as Windows search. The Windows 7 menu search has certain deficiencies which Classic Start Menu improved upon: - Because Windows 7's menu can't do partial matches, you can't type RAR to open WinRAR. Or dataexecut to open DEP properties. With Classic Start Menu, y... |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Desktop F3 Keyboard Shortcut |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:10 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1361
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| No replacing F3 is not a good idea because F3 opens different things on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 and users prefer different things. For example, on Windows 8.1, the built-in Windows search is the only one that can search network files, Classic Start Menu cannot so both are required. Similarly, on Windo... |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Classic Start Menu crashes after update to Win 10 Ver 1703 |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:05 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 2283
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| On PCs which have IDT audio, the audio driver (IDTNC64.cpl file to be specific) is known to be incompatible with the latest Windows 10. It can cause Explorer/Classic Shell to crash. Uninstall IDT audio driver or get the updated fixed one. Simply removing IDTNC64.cpl should fix the crash too. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Search uses contains instead of starts with |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:10 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1542
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| Space is considered a word separator so finding words beginning with b is normal e.g. Bluetooth or blink rate. Maybe your batch files also contain words beginning with b. If you don't want to search file contents, also uncheck "Search contents" under "Search files". It is not the... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Character Map Glyphs |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:09 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 3131
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| Well it's not the same exactly but instead of using icons, if you use Unicode text symbols, you can have some glyphs in Windows 7-style, 2nd column as well. If in the future, Ivo can add support for color fonts which are supported using DirectWrite on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, we can have full col... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Request: StartIsBack skin |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 5:51 am
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Replies: 17
Views: 10178
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| Well it's not the same exactly but instead of using icons, if you use Unicode text symbols, you can have some glyphs in Windows 7-style, 2nd column as well. If in the future, Ivo can add support for color fonts which are supported using DirectWrite on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, we can have full col... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Skin with glyph icons in column 2 to match Win10 taskbar? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 5:51 am
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Replies: 25
Views: 21671
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| Well it's not the same exactly but instead of using icons, if you use Unicode text symbols, you can have some glyphs in Windows 7-style, 2nd column as well. If in the future, Ivo can add support for color fonts which are supported using DirectWrite on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, we can have full col... |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Status bar not visible |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 4:36 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1323
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Yeah that's how Microsoft designed it in Internet Explorer 5 in 1999.  |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Customize statusbar details? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:17 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 1278
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Yeah it would've been great to have it working for AllFileSystemObjects. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
The only time I've seen System.FileCount work is in Windows Explorer stacked search results. Unfortunately, stacking was removed after Windows Vista. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Windows 10 log off text changed to sign out |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:13 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 979
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| It is changed by Windows if you are using a Microsoft account. If you revert to a local account, it should revert. Or you can modify StartMenuL10N.ini. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Desktop F3 Keyboard Shortcut |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:05 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1361
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| You can use a simple AutoHotkey script to override it. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Search uses contains instead of starts with |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 11:02 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1542
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| Yes open Start Menu Settings -> Search Box tab. Uncheck 'Match parts of words'. |
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Status bar not visible |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:06 am
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Replies: 3
Views: 1323
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Forum: Classic Explorer Topic: Customize statusbar details? |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2017 8:02 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1278
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| The status bar details are the same as what the tooltip/infotip shows. You can customize the tooltip using the Registry but it's per-file type. As an example, see the "InfoTip" Reg value's data at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\lnkfile. Article on it: Add More Details to Shortcut ToolTip in Windows 10:... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Windows 10 - windows explorer continuously crashes |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:14 am
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Replies: 8
Views: 2935
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| Besides IDT, there is ONE MORE driver that I've found which crashes Control Panel. Realtek's audio driver if you haven't updated it, contains RtkAPO.dll which has the same effect as IDT's CPL file. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: Crashes Explorer in Win 10 Creator |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 11:10 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 4408
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| Besides IDT, there is ONE MORE driver that I've found which crashes Control Panel. Realtek's audio driver if you haven't updated it, contains RtkAPO.dll which has the same effect as IDT's CPL file. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: Classic Start Menu not Appearing |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2017 10:14 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1169
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| Right click Start button -> Settings. Make sure Left click opens and Windows key opens are set to "Classic Start Menu". Also make sure no other Start menu software is installed. |
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Forum: Taskbar Skins Topic: [REQUEST] Windows 7 Taskbar |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:30 am
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Replies: 3
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| I assume you are asking this for Windows 10? The problem is even though the taskbar background can be skinned, the window buttons can't be made to look like Windows 7/8.1. So far, I only know of StartIsBack++ which can theme the taskbar to make it look like Windows 7/8.1. Unfortunately, StartIsBack+... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:23 am
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Replies: 94
Views: 67808
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| Right, right. And indeed especially for this skin which has so many bitmaps, I wouldn't want you to update all of them just for making the band slightly thicker. I didn't see the internals of this skin to see how its done so I assumed it might be possible to just stretch the bitmaps vertically witho... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP Classic Retro |
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:48 am
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Replies: 94
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| This skin also needs a slightly bigger user picture option and slightly thicker top bar for high DPI. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: XP LUNA Variations (Classic 1 and 2) |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Tue Jul 25, 2017 6:03 am
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Replies: 55
Views: 43801
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| The position of the user picture in this skin when shown in the left column seems to be dependent on the setting "Programs pane width". It shifts left/right depending on whether the value of this setting is decreased/increased. |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment Plex Replay7 (Windows 7 style) |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 11:22 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 15031
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| Check out Winaero Tweaker - that app will let you easily adjust things like scrollbar sizes. Or if you want to manually do it, these are the Reg entries (my values are quite large due to high DPI): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] "Scr... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment Plex Replay7 (Windows 7 style) |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:17 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 15031
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| Best revision ever!!! :P :D :P :D :P :D :mrgreen: Thanks. I switched to Small icons+larger padding in 2nd column (since my small icon size is quite big). And edited the skin to increase the split arrow padding and Shutdown text+arrow paddings as I always do since you know the split button must actua... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: User PICTURE FRAMES different sizes |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 10:09 am
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Replies: 1
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| This is very useful for all skin creators. Thanks juniper7! It'll be possible for Ivo too, to incorporate these larger frames into the default Classic, Full Glass, Windows Aero skins. |
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Forum: Feature Requests Topic: Icons on home screen |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 11:10 am
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Replies: 1
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| What do you mean by home screen? The Desktop? Try right click and drag from Start menu to Desktop - it'll give you options to copy. |
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Forum: Bug Reports Topic: "See More Results" Search function not working. |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sun Jul 23, 2017 4:32 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 3701
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| See More Results/Saved Searches is a Windows feature that seems to be damaged on your computer. Looking at your screenshot, it appears that the file association might be messed up for search-ms files on your PC. That's why it may not be working. You say nothing happens when you double click "In... |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: remote desktop connection expand menu |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Sat Jul 22, 2017 4:30 am
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Replies: 2
Views: 887
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| Just pin the shortcut and over time, Windows will add to its jumplist the previous clients you've connected it to. Make sure jumplists are on in Windows. Open Settings app -> Personalization -> Start. Enable the option 'Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar'. If the Taskba... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment Plex Replay7 (Windows 7 style) |
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:43 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 15031
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| Is there such a thing as a vector start menu? Where everything scales perfectly, or is that just a dream? :lol: For that, the Start Menu will have to be rewritten in WPF or UWP, not Win32 and we all know how much powerful and versatile Win32 APIs are compared to UWP except for its limited resolutio... |
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Forum: Start Menu Skins Topic: Experiment Plex Replay7 (Windows 7 style) |
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:43 am
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Replies: 32
Views: 15031
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| Oh ok no worries. I didn't know you deleted the sources. And I had forgotten about the user pic limit. :P I only asked thinking that it might be a minor update. How Windows magnifies smaller graphic elements to work with high DPIs is using DPI virtualization. I wrote an article at Winaero about it: ... |
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Forum: Chitchat Topic: Taskbar time not displaying |
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:23 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 1070
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| This does not seem to be related to Classic Shell. |
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Forum: Classic Start Menu Topic: List of Recent Documents not showing up in Start Menu |
| Gaurav |
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Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:09 am
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Replies: 1
Views: 1050
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Open Settings app -> Personalization -> Start.
Enable the option 'Show recently opened items in Jump Lists on Start or the taskbar'. |
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