Classic Shell no longer in development, and now open source

errr... breaks in what way?

dalchina said:

errr... breaks in what way?

It will display and run the first time, then stops working. Repair, clean install it, nothing will keep it running.

Hmm, kind of begs the question as to why, with what is supposed to be a consumer product, MS changes things so consumers suffer by introducing compatibility problems. Ok, maybe a start menu is different - but witness the problems with Epson Perfection scanners... (provided of course their software conforms to whatever API spec applies).

Anyway, that's more philosophy and not worth exploring.

Hope either this is a temporary glitch (Insider) or we find a reasonably tolerable alternative.

dalchina said:

errr... breaks in what way?

In simple terms it will not work any more I put that in my original post

Josey Wales said:

In simple terms it will not work any more I put that in my original post

Hope either this is a temporary glitch (Insider) or we find a reasonably tolerable alternative.

"Start is back" and the Good Old Windows 10 Menu still works Fine

JSheridan said:

What about Compatibility Mode?

It will not work in That Mode.

JSheridan said:

What about Compatibility Mode?

I tried compatibility 8 & 7. Nada. Tried their Classic Shell Utility to deep clean the uninstall and re-installed, with no luck. Fires up once, and promptly dies.

Superfly mentioned a couple days ago, and I tend to agree, kernel code or changed/missing APIs cause it to fail. Not even an error message anywhere.

f14tomcat said:

I tried compatibility 8 & 7. Nada. Tried their Classic Shell Utility to deep clean the uninstall and re-installed, with no luck. Fires up once, and promptly dies.

If it would have worked in Compatibility then Ivo would still be in charge of it. I think that just about everyone knew at some point it would stop working. That point is with RS5.