

But often when in-place upgrades are done, Windows Setup damages it or causes serious issues due to their imperfect update process causing a partially installed state where Classic Shell crashes Explorer. On a clean install of Windows 10's latest release, Classic Shell works. The community is of course free to carry the Classic Shell project forward and there are other decent Start menu solutions too.īecause of the way Windows 10 is serviced and updated, it routinely creates crashing issues for Explorer because Microsoft's upgrade process is imperfect even after years of trying and cannot even properly migrate desktop app settings after the upgrade - it ends up deleting or corrupting certain configuration in the Registry required for Win32 programs to work properly. And that's the problem with Windows 10 - it gives everyone a very inconsistent experience. Even if you find issues, they must be reliably and consistently reproducible, only then can Ivo fix them. Issues with Windows 10 might be because of no testing performed by me on that OS.

New features and new releases will be very slow or unlikely. Windows 10 has caused me to lose interest in the PC platform completely.Ĭlassic Shell is in maintenance mode. As you may or may not be knowing, Classic Shell is no longer the priority for the developer (Ivo), nor for me (I was one of the testers). It mostly works well on a clean install.until the next Windows update/upgrade comes along to disrupt everything. Classic Shell 4.3.0 is officially supported on Windows 10 Anniversary Update.Ĭlassic Shell 4.3.1 is officially supported on Windows 10 Creators Update.Ĭlassic Shell 4.3.1 is reported by the majority to run on Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, but some others are reporting various issues.
