Post by Jack on Jan 9, 2020 3:46:04 GMT -8
So I've managed to get SCT working properly (well mostly) in 1809 LTSC. This is actually on my real daily driver PC rather than the VM on my Mac that I was testing it on when I made my previous post. This computer had a screwed 1909 install so I figured why not reinstall and go full Classic with it. Also gave me an opportunity to move to a new NVMe SSD I bought for Christmas.
Downgrade to LTSB 2016 or "upgrade" to Home/Pro on 1903+.
Apologies about the delayed response, been working my day job and trying to get this all working the way I want it has taken all of my time. Here's my desktop, not complete yet obviously but it's a start.
It wasn't the smoothest install, I actually had the opposite problem I had in the VM, the Explorer worked right away, but neither StartIsBack nor OpenShell would run using the SCT installer (both versions 1.0.5 & 1.0.6). I actually had to disable SCT, install StartIsBack, theme it and then install OpenShell manually in order for it work as intended. Once running though, it's been stable. Though whenever the system reboots, the Classic theme will not auto-start despite being "installed". Not sure what I'm doing wrong here or if that's by design.
Obviously haven't got all my programs installed yet, however there are a few things I'd like to fix. First being the system tray icons, they're white on a grey background, which is ugly and hard to see. I can't change them to the new black ones because I'm on 1809, however if anybody could point me in a direction to where I could fix or replace them with different ones I'd appreciate that. Also Internet Explorer and Windows Photo Viewer need to be patched as they are glitchy, and I can't seem to figure out how to do it. Photo Viewer I don't care as much about as I found a thread here which allows the Windows XP one to work, so I may just use that instead, but IE is required as my day job requires me to use IE to view my schedule (because huge worldwide corporations like the one I work for seem to be stuck in the past and use ActiveX controls in 2020 lol).
Anyway, so far I'm loving this forum, been browsing it during downtime at work, you guys are awesome keeping the Classic user experience alive and well. My goal with this project is to just clean up all the disgusting UI inconsistencies in Windows 10, and I feel the best way to do it is to strip away as much theming as possible and run Classic (also Classic still looks the most modern out of any Windows UI). Maybe macOS spoils me or maybe I'm just nit-picky, but I feel having a consistent UI makes it feel like a higher quality product, and SCT helps Windows 10 a LOT in this regard as by default it's UI is garbage.
