Classic Shell for Win8 not able to add pinned programs to Start Menu?

8-21-13 | KJM

[Blue Highway]

In Classic Shell there is an option to pin to start menu but it never works. Is this a bug or what? I see a bunch of empty space where the start menu is on the left side no matter what skin I use. In Win7 the left side will be populated by recently run programs and the programs that are pinned to the start menu. Pinning programs does nothing. Am I not able to figure this out or is this an option they over looked? I googled this and would be surprised I am the first person to mention this as I saw no other posts about this problem.

[Blue Highway]

I know there are a bunch of Classic Shell users here as this is where I discovered it and now use it on 2 machines running Win8

[oh8eleven]

I found a very brief discussion in the Classic Shell Forum:
http://www.classicshell.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=163

[Blue Highway]

Thanks I have v. 3.6.7 and I checked for updates and 3.6.8 says it is optimized for Win 8.1 but I don't like they removed the Metro start button as that was the one I was using.

Also in the link you provided there was another link to make the pin to start work on older versions but mentions in versions 4.0.0 and later it is not necessary, but according to the updater 3.6.8 is the more recent version. Weird they would mention 4.0.0 as if it is already out.

[oh8eleven]

I don't like they removed the Metro start button as that was the one I was using.
From the update release notes:

"Modified the Classic Shell logo and removed the Metro button by request from Microsoft."

MS doesn't request - they demand. Anyway, I see Beta version 3.9.1 has been released. Give it a try.

[Blue Highway]

It’s funny that MSFT would object to a button that they themselves felt it was necessary to leave off and would be threatening a 3rd party from using it even if it wasn’t exact. I guess they have the claim that it is their intellectual property and forbids anyone else from using it?

[Wurlitzer]

With every “UPDATE” Classic Shell gets pushed behind Metro crap and just like every other flavor of MS OS, every update slows the PC down so that by the time the next new and improved OS is ready, the public will jump on it.

How inferior must MS programmers be to constantly update without ever speeding up the OS? Inferior or under orders maybe??????

My other Win 7 laptop which worked as well as I could have expected when it was new has unfortunately suffered from the MS onslaught of slow bloat with every update.

The last few have rendered my wireless quite unstable should the laptop go into sleep mode.

[Blue Highway]

I take it you’re not going to be “upgrading” to Win 8.1 then?

[Wurlitzer]

“I take it you’re not going to be “upgrading” to Win 8.1 then?”

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More than likely NO as having to get Shell as the default after each “UPGRADE” I have stopped any update service for MS and just rely on my anti-virus for any security issues.

One of the Win 7 upgrades broke my OpenOffice Base program and it took quite a bit of detective work to get it operational. Zero help from MS but a ton of help from the OpenOffice community.

I get a real kick out of some of the previous updates showing 36,000+ registry updates????? What the heck are they doing?

What gets me is how the entire PC/Laptop community just tolerates MS slowing down their systems with virtually every upgrade. Unfortunately we have to rely on sites like Black Viper to gain back some speed albeit at the loss of functionality.

After spending decades writing machine control programs, in assembly, where I would fight for every microsecond, I find it hard to hold MS programmers in very high esteem.

[Blue Highway]

I’ve never been a fan of bloat and wish I knew what non essential parts of windows that can be safely removed.

[Wurlitzer]

“I’ve never been a fan of bloat and wish I knew what non essential parts of windows that can be safely removed.”

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While there very well may be others I have found the BlackViper site to be well researched and well documented for many flavors of Windows and how to trim unneeded services which don’t need to be automatically launched but launched when needed.