Hi All,
I have a shell extension that work perfectly fine in all versions of windows but not in windows 8.
I can register and unregister the DLL in windows 8. I can see the entries in registry regarding the DLL.
Everything same as other versions of windows. But it don’t work.
What could be so special in windows 8 that don’t allow shell extension to run?
I have never seen Windows8. I hope I never have to. But my impressin is
that the “shell” has been totally rewritten.
joe
Hi All,
I have a shell extension that work perfectly fine in all versions of
windows but not in windows 8.
I can register and unregister the DLL in windows 8. I can see the entries
in registry regarding the DLL.
Everything same as other versions of windows. But it don’t work.What could be so special in windows 8 that don’t allow shell extension to
run?
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xxxxx@flounder.com wrote:
I have never seen Windows8. I hope I never have to. But my impressin is
that the “shell” has been totally rewritten.
The silly Duplo block tile interface is new, but you can switch back to
a desktop that is largely the same as Win 7.
And, by the way, it was announced yesterday (or maybe leaked with
permission) that Windows 8.1 will bring back the Start button and enable
boot-to-desktop instead of boot-to-Duplo-blocks. For me, that will make
all the difference.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
The article I read said it would NOT have the Start button. It wouldhave most of the Win7 look and feel, but not the Start button. I’m hoping your interpretation is correct and I misread the article.
Greg
— xxxxx@probo.com wrote:
From: Tim Roberts
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Subject: Re: [ntdev] Shell Extension in Win8
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:51:02 -0700
xxxxx@flounder.com wrote:
> I have never seen Windows8. I hope I never have to. But my impressin is
> that the “shell” has been totally rewritten.
The silly Duplo block tile interface is new, but you can switch back to
a desktop that is largely the same as Win 7.
And, by the way, it was announced yesterday (or maybe leaked with
permission) that Windows 8.1 will bring back the Start button and enable
boot-to-desktop instead of boot-to-Duplo-blocks. For me, that will make
all the difference.
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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Gregory G Dyess wrote:
The article I read said it would NOT have the Start button. It wouldhave most of the Win7 look and feel, but not the Start button. I’m hoping your interpretation is correct and I misread the article.
Here’s the “announcement”, including screen shots:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/blue-start-experience-changes
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Thank you for the information. That is good news. I wonder why the
people who think these designs are cool (or is that “kool”?) would take
the time to run these bizarre ideas past some of the billion or so
existing users.
joe
The article I read said it would NOT have the Start button. It wouldhave
most of the Win7 look and feel, but not the Start button. I’m hoping your
interpretation is correct and I misread the article.Greg
— xxxxx@probo.com wrote:
From: Tim Roberts
> To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
> Subject: Re: [ntdev] Shell Extension in Win8
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:51:02 -0700
>
> xxxxx@flounder.com wrote:
>> I have never seen Windows8. I hope I never have to. But my impressin
>> is
>> that the “shell” has been totally rewritten.
>
> The silly Duplo block tile interface is new, but you can switch back to
> a desktop that is largely the same as Win 7.
>
> And, by the way, it was announced yesterday (or maybe leaked with
> permission) that Windows 8.1 will bring back the Start button and enable
> boot-to-desktop instead of boot-to-Duplo-blocks. For me, that will make
> all the difference.
>
> –
> Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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Thanks Tim. I was hoping I had just misread it.
Greg
— xxxxx@probo.com wrote:
From: Tim Roberts
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Subject: Re: [ntdev] Shell Extension in Win8
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:18:24 -0700
Gregory G Dyess wrote:
> The article I read said it would NOT have the Start button. It wouldhave most of the Win7 look and feel, but not the Start button. I’m hoping your interpretation is correct and I misread the article.
Here’s the “announcement”, including screen shots:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/blue-start-experience-changes
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Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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Of course, according to other reports the Start Button != Start Menu:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/30/windows-8-1-to-get-start-button-boot-to-desktop-option/
If this does turn out to be the case, I’m not sure what the point is
(there’s already a gazillion ways to get to the start screen, not sure why
I’d need another one that just kills a spot in my task area).
-scott
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“Gregory G Dyess” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
Thanks Tim. I was hoping I had just misread it.
Greg
— xxxxx@probo.com wrote:
From: Tim Roberts
To: “Windows System Software Devs Interest List”
Subject: Re: [ntdev] Shell Extension in Win8
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 10:18:24 -0700
Gregory G Dyess wrote:
> The article I read said it would NOT have the Start button. It wouldhave
> most of the Win7 look and feel, but not the Start button. I’m hoping your
> interpretation is correct and I misread the article.
Here’s the “announcement”, including screen shots:
http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/blue-start-experience-changes
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
—
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Scott Noone wrote:
Of course, according to other reports the Start Button != Start Menu:
Oh, my. I just re-read all of these articles, and you’re right. I read
what I wanted it to say, not what it was actually saying.
I feel like a 9-year-old who was just told “yes, we’re going to have a
birthday party for you, but you won’t be invited.”
–
Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
If it just “boots to desktop” for non-touch enabled display systems that
would be sufficient. The annoyance of the duplo interface would go away if
it never showed up.
Mark Roddy
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
> Scott Noone wrote:
> > Of course, according to other reports the Start Button != Start Menu:
>
> Oh, my. I just re-read all of these articles, and you’re right. I read
> what I wanted it to say, not what it was actually saying.
>
> I feel like a 9-year-old who was just told “yes, we’re going to have a
> birthday party for you, but you won’t be invited.”
>
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> Tim Roberts, xxxxx@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
>
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>I feel like a 9-year-old who was just told "yes, we’re going to have a
birthday party for you, but you won’t be invited."
If you want back the start menu back I suggest getting StartIsBack which is
working like a real charm (not like that other thing they also called
charm).
(If you want your SUBSTed drives in your old scripts to work across apps
with both administrator privileges enabled and those that don’t need
elevated privileges due to UAC then there is a registry setting for that
too. If you want to map default shares across the network then there is
another registry setting. After all if you have the skills, time and
patience to configure it right then Windows 8 is not as bad as it really
is).
//Daniel
What does your shell extension do? Notwithstanding all of the denigrating
comments, the Windows 8 shell is almost identical from an API point of view
if you don’t make stupid assumptions about how the screen layout would be
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Hi All,
I have a shell extension that work perfectly fine in all versions of windows
but not in windows 8.
I can register and unregister the DLL in windows 8. I can see the entries in
registry regarding the DLL.
Everything same as other versions of windows. But it don’t work.
What could be so special in windows 8 that don’t allow shell extension to
run?
Thanks M M to get back to the actual question.
I downloaded some sample from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CppShellExtContextMenuHandl-410a709a.
It doesn’t work on windows 8. registers well, but doesn’t work.
I thought may be I have some problem in my shell extension, but this one is from MS sample, and it doesn’t work either.
Can anyone help?
Not that this is a topic for this forum and it was a good 10 years when I
last touched UI stuff but maybe threading model is not set during
registration -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13162693/windows-8-ishelliconoverlayidentifier-shell-extension-not-working-properly
.
Kris
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:11 AM, wrote:
> Thanks M M to get back to the actual question.
>
> I downloaded some sample from
> http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/CppShellExtContextMenuHandl-410a709a.
>
> It doesn’t work on windows 8. registers well, but doesn’t work.
> I thought may be I have some problem in my shell extension, but this one
> is from MS sample, and it doesn’t work either.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
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Kris
Almost certainly, yes. But almost certainly not somebody in this forum.
Your question is significantly off-topic for this forum… you’d have much better luck elsewhere I think.
Peter
OSR
thanks Krzysztof