Classic Shell no longer in development, and now open source

kado897 · 30 Dec 2018

stealth2920 said:

Just did that and it opened up instantly. Is that what it is suppose to do if working correctly?

It adds a toolbar that you can customise.

stealth2920 · 30 Dec 2018

kado897 said:

It adds a toolbar that you can customise.

Oh yeah I see that. Works ok then. Just wanted to test it after reading other posts. Thanks for the info.

kado897 · 30 Dec 2018

It was more use in W7. The ribbon has most of the useful functions in W10.

xpclient · 14 Apr 2019

Ribbon has but
A. Ribbon takes lots of space vertically
B. You have to click-click-click to find the command on the right tab
C. It can't handle customized commands like the Classic Shell Explorer toolbar.

Josey Wales · 14 Apr 2019

Classic Shell Is working Great for me in 1809.

stealth2920 · 14 Apr 2019

Josey Wales said:

Classic Shell Is working Great for me in 1809.

Same here. Has always worked great for me.

HRPuffnstuff · 14 Apr 2019

It still works great for me in 1903.

xpclient · 23 Apr 2019

For anyone running Classic Shell/Open Shell on 19H1, can you please confirm if new Settings app pages are also searched? Last time I tried Windows 10, it was broken but I use 8.1, not 10. Only Control Panel was being searched but something may have broken on my system so I wasn't sure if Settings search in Classic Start menu was broken.

HRPuffnstuff · 23 Apr 2019

CS works fine on my 1903 build.

Josey Wales · 23 Apr 2019

xpclient said:

For anyone running Classic Shell/Open Shell on 19H1, can you please confirm if new Settings app pages are also searched? Last time I tried Windows 10, it was broken but I use 8.1, not 10. Only Control Panel was being searched but something may have broken on my system so I wasn't sure if Settings search in Classic Start menu was broken.

I cannot speak for Open Shell but Classic Shell works just fine and always has.