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  1. Thanks. I see that the UI has got quite complex with lots of options (l love options! ) compared to the older and freeware version I use.
  2. Just wait till the drivers stop being made for Windows 7. Everyone will "get the benefits of the improved Windows 10 experience".
  3. That command is shutdown.exe /g. It's a seriously cool but not under-utilized feature in Windows! In Windows Vista and later, using the command line tool shutdown.exe with the /G switch will automatically restore many (note but not all) apps which you have running before the reboot! No need to close them manually and restore them one by one. What apps are restored depends on which apps register with Windows' RegisterApplicationRestart function for reboot. Using a tool like Application Recovery and Restart Explorer, you can easily see which apps will automatically restart! Windows Update already uses this feature but the Start Menu's Restart command does not. But you can use Shutdown /G. Here's a list of applications with register for Application Recovery and Restart (which means they will be automatically restarted): In Windows Vista and later: ********************************** Explorer Internet Explorer All in-box games All Office apps Magnifier Narrator OSK Mobility Center Regedit MSPaint Sidebar XPS Viewer Sound Recorder Backup Character Map Disk Defragmenter System Information System Restore Defender Movie Maker DVD Maker Photo Gallery Windows Calendar Windows Mail Windows Media Center Snipping Tool Sticky Notes Handwriting Personalization Windows Journal Windows Mobile Device Center MSConfig Remote Assistance Problem Reports and Solutions Windows Live Mail Windows Live Photo Gallery Visual Studio 2008 In Windows 7 and later: ****************************** WordPad Calc Resource Monitor Non-built-in apps: *********************** Security Essentials Google Chrome Do not register for restart ************************************ Notepad Task manager Windows Fax and Scan Sndvol Cmd RDP Windows Speech Recognition Easy Transfer Disk Cleanup Task Scheduler PowerShell PowerShell ISE Windows Media Player MMC Applets Zune Software Virtual PC 2007 Paint.NET Firefox Safari WinRAR 7-Zip PDF XChange Viewer (Crashes and hangs only, no reboot) Picasa Windows Live Messenger 2009 Windows Live Movie Maker 2009 Windows Live Writer 2009
  4. Install Classic Shell. Set taskbar to glass from Windows 10 settings tab. Adjust the opacity if you want. Of course, unlike the AeroGlass project by BigMuscle, you won't get glass for title bars.
  5. There are many apps to control Windows Firewall. TinyWall has a no popup approach. I prefer the one by Sphinx Software because it has a decent user experience and shows outbound notifications (yes it can get annoying since it prompts for every single app that tries to connect and blocks it by default unless you approve) but once you have set it up, it gives you full control. Being prompted at the time the apps wants to connect for the first time and never again is convenient for me.
  6. Just install Windows Firewall Control by Sphinx Software: http://www.sphinx-soft.com/Vista/ It is not a firewall app but an app to control the Windows Firewall. When installed, it blocks outgoing connections by default and shows a notification every time an app wants to connect letting you quickly allow that particular app.
  7. Ivo has released Classic Shell 4.2.4 with official Windows 10 "RTM" (Build 10240) support.
  8. - If "Use larger taskbar icons" is enabled, the touch keyboard icon near the notification area also get enlarged and looks weird: Also, on Windows 10, don't Modern apps already terminate their process with the Close button? I observed that they did on my Windows 10 even if the SIB++ option was not checked?
  9. You can't. They removed that ability in Windows 8 itself. Only the Default Programs Control Panel or Settings app can do it.
  10. Classic Shell 4.2.3 Release Candidate is out: Here’s what’s new: ● Improved support for Windows 10● Improved support for touch keyboard: The Start Menu has the ability now to move itself, for example, when the Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10 touch keyboard pops up in the docked state or when the resolution changes (like when you exit a fullscreen game with the Win key)● New command to access the PC settings directly (Windows 8.1 and Windows 10)● New settings to control the color and opacity of the Windows 10 taskbar● The Metro skin in Classic styles can have glass. It can be toggled from the Skin tab when the Metro skin is selected● You can right-click on a highlighted program and select "Remove highlight"● Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes Download at source: http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4803
  11. Look and feel can be changed via themes and UXStyle. Start menu search is no match for "Everything" search by Voidtools which runs just fine on Windows XP. You can assign a hotkey for "Everything" and just launch anything just as fast - whether it's app shortcuts, documents etc. If you really need to find contents of indexed files, there is Windows Search 4.0 available too although it's such a resource hog.
  12. I understood what you are trying to accomplish and told you how to do it too. I KNOW XP Internet Games run natively on Windows 7 but not on Windows 8, I wrote that Winaero article too. It's not my fault you aren't aware of App-V and I've no time to explain the whole App-V product to you here in a few words and how it easily accomplished this for me (running XP Internet Games on Windows 8/8.1). Google it and learn it please. The App-V solution works on either OS, Windows 7 or 8 or whatever the App-V client is supported on. It doesn't run natively but it isn't full Windows OS virtualization either - you don't need to install any copy of Windows inside an existing Windows. App-V is part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. It is not a full machine/OS virtualization product like Hyper-V. It's about isolating applications by virtualizing the file system and Registry. The procedure is too long to explain - how you sequence, how to generate the MSI. It's easier to use it and learn it yourself. I've told you one working solution. Using it I even managed to run Windows Media Player 10 from XP on Windows 8 and 7.
  13. Top programs to fix Modern Windows (all free): 1. Classic Shell 2. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker 3. VistaSwitcher 4. Everything Search 5. Classic Task Manager 6.Gadgets 7. PerigeeCopy 8. Media Player Classic Home Cinema

  14. Do you know about Microsoft App-V and how to use it? Then it's pretty easy. I got the XP internet games to work by sequencing them on Windows XP Professional and installed the App-V client on Windows 8 and got them running. The catch however is that every time a new release of Windows comes out, the App-V client will have to be updated and the app sequenced again and MSI generated again to target the new OS. To sequence them on XP, first uninstall them from Optional Components, start the sequencing and let it monitor and install them. Even if it's an INF-based installation, it will be captured properly. I did that specifically for Internet Hearts and Internet Reversi since Windows 7 omits them.
  15. That is one hell of a beautiful looking Start menu with those glyph-icons. And nice enhancement for disabling those resource hogging XAML beasts. What a pity that normal people don't notice how rewriting the OS in XAML makes it worse than fast C/C++ code.
  16. Indeed. But they have turned sickeningly evil ever since Vista. Nothing new.
  17. Get colored title bars in Windows 10 Since Windows 10 build 10056, Microsoft has blocked colored titlebars for all opened windows. Many users find this change extremely frustrating because it doesn't make it clear whether the window is active or inactive. It is a major usability violation. Here is how to fix it and restore colored titlebars in Windows 10 easily. Continue at source..
  18. "Beta" is tested by Ivo and me. General release is the "beta" released after more people have tried it but even the general release is not rolled out immediately via Classic Shell's automatic updates feature until enough people have tried it.
  19. New Classic Shell 4.2.2 is here: ● Improved support for Windows 10● New ability to save settings to XML files from command line: http://www.classicshell.net/faq/#install_xml● New skin features, including Aero Glass for Windows 10, shadows for the text and fractional font sizes like 9.5● New setting to align the custom start button to the corner instead of the middle of the taskbar● Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes You can download it from here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/06l6e51av6i6nss/ClassicShellSetup_4_2_2.exe
  20. Welcome here. This is the best forum for fans of older Windows.
  21. It's only called the baby duck syndrome if the new way of doing things is objectively superior or allows the user to do more yet for some reason he's unable to learn or adapt. It isn't called the baby duck syndrome if different is sold as "improved" without any objectivity. Oh well not everyone understands that so never mind. See I don't deny that Windows Vista was a HUGE improvement in many, many areas and Windows 7 too. Not every change they did was bad. Far from it. But it's the principle of the thing. I am against the policy of MS getting to decide what to call "improved" and what they stubbornly refuse to fix despite knowing that it is broken or made worse. The customer should get to decide that, yet if you're in the minority, Microsoft will not fix it because they are a monopoly. Only if the majority rejects the bad product, then they bother to make it slightly better. I haven't myself stuck with XP either, I do use Windows 7 and try my best to keep an open mind about using later systems but the fact remains that OSes after XP and even more so after Windows 7 require *FIXING* by third parties in many areas to make the user experience more comfortable or more complete. With each new Windows release, more FIXING is required. This is not the baby duck syndrome. These are real issues because functionality got deleted, not changed. And I am not alone in this rejection of certain Windows releases. Vista, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 were rejected by most users for this very reason - that Microsoft is making few genuine improvements and FAR MORE REGRESSIONS. So yes my stance may be extreme in calling "Everything after XP" as bloated crap because ultimately it wastes a great deal of my time and productivity.
  22. Yes Windows 7 has always had 4 options which 8 reduce to 2 and 10 reduced to none.
  23. The folder template settings used to get reset in Vista. It was a bug that *was* fixed in Windows 7.
  24. Edge's Javascript engine might be super-fast in benchmarks, especially Google's own benchmarks as MS shows but on the whole, I find the Edge UI to be far more sluggish than IE. And I don't think it will ever get IE's level of customization or options. So that's a deal-breaker for me. I am not a web developer and I don't care that the page rendered few milliseconds faster than IE.
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