This happened to me once when I was fixing a relative's computer. The thing is they were actually using the classic theme (actually it was a high contrast theme, but that's still a classic theme) but it was in a folder on the desktop. And couldn't repeat the effect either, unfortunately.
Also, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the My Documents desktop icon.
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Wow, how did this thread get to be 10 pages long?
Yeah, I think I read your post about it happening to you.
There has to be a reason for it happening, otherwise it wouldn't have happened. For some reason, those incidents were limited to only the address bar being hidden. My laptop was sluggish at the time that this happened, so maybe Windows was trying to pull the address bar element from a file but it failed to load it for that specific window. It seems to me what we are trying to achieve is indeed possible, given the events we have described.
The people who might actually care about this are probably in the minority, but there have to be at least a handful of people out there that are wondering about this too... many have probably given up on it, though. I care about it because ever since Vista I've been wanting the menu bar at the top, since I prefer the classic layout of explorer.
I really do appreciate that special folder thing. It's getting me closer to what I want to do with my system. I'm very nostalgic, and Windows XP is pretty much retired. Most of the bases have been covered as far as tweaking Windows goes, but it's the little tweaks like this that really make me happy.
Last edited by Degadus; 20 Nov 2014 at 00:40.
Degadus, I completely agree with you. I still love the classic versions of Windows, and I am also trying to get a lot of the old behavior in the modern versions. I too am very nostalgic, but I also feel that a lot of customization features have been disappearing over the years. I began to notice this in Windows Vista, and Windows 8, well, I don't think I even need to say anything about Windows 8.
I would also like to have a shell extension (similar to Classic Shell) that could add an address bar that is more compact like in XP, and can also be moved around. But that wouldn't happen anytime soon, as I don't know how to program.
I also found a way to hide the AddressBar, but it restores upon window resize.
And, I think, the same way one can change the layout of the taskbar so to fix it on Win8, but I cannot test it.
Looks like Microsoft are attempting to remove Classic Shell from Windows 10.
Microsoft Blocks Classic Shell in Windows 10 Build 9879 - Softpedia
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