Classic Shell no longer in development, and now open source

This is a Dell driver. What does it have to do with Classic Shell, Open Shell, any Shell? Go to the directory indicated in the pic you posted and UNBLOCK the Setup.exe. It came from DELL. It's in the normal directory where DELL puts things.

Open an Elevated Command Prompt:

Open Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 10

Type:

net user administrator /active:yes


Then logout and choose Administrator on the login screen to login, it should be no passwords needed to login by default. (or the one you have previously configured)


Login with the built-in admin account and install the driver from there.

Use the Dell Drivers setup file path in your hard to read screenshot.


Once installed, open Elevated Command Prompt and run the command below to turn off the built-in admin account:

net user administrator /active:no

Edit: Other option is to launch Autoruns and disable the entry.

Try post #781 first, if no luck, do #782.

It's probably an unsigned driver.

f14tomcat said:

Try post #781 first, if no luck, do #782.

It's probably an unsigned driver.

This is what happens when people do not make a new thread for their Problem. It should not just be added to an existing thread that has nothing to do with their issue.

Soapm said:

NO, my problem is with classic shell. I said an error message SIMILAR to that one since I can't get a screenshot of the actual message because I can't get screen snipe to launch and it doesn't store when I hit the "PnSc" button.

Switching to open shell seems to have worked, thanks for all the help and sorry for the confusion.

Glad you got something to work. Yes, nuances of the meanings of words and phrases in relationship to others can get confusing, and lead to misinterpretations. Happy to see you're all fixed up now.

What?

Classic Shell should work without issue on a Dell system (and *many* others!). It has nothing to do with it.
Cleanly remove Classic Shell and all it's directories, including any hidden files and registry keys.

Try reinstalling with admin privileges.

Compumind said:

What?

Classic Shell should work without issue on a Dell system (and *many* others!). It has nothing to do with it.
Cleanly remove Classic Shell and all it's directories, including any hidden files and registry keys.

Try reinstalling with admin privileges.

Who are you replying to? I think Josey already suggested to re-install it. But, OP is happy now, and up and running.

f14tomcat said:

Who are you replying to? I think Josey already suggested to re-install it. But, OP is happy now, and up and running.

Thought that the OP was referring to Open-Shell but wanted Classic Shell.

Sorry for any confusion.

Compumind said:

Thought that the OP was referring to Open-Shell.but wanted Classic-Shell. No worries.

Had some weird permission issues with CS, and installed OS over it, and all works now. Maybe he just got a bad CS installer, don't know. He's running OS now. I have CS running almost everywhere with no problems, OS on a couple of VMs, just because it's there.