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- New help style
 - Grammar fixes/slight reformatting
 - Windows 8 -> 8+
 - Links now go to Github or Classic shell mirror
 - Updated Readme and EULA style to match
 Fixes #1173, #880
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<meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"><title>Classic Explorer</title>
<style type="text/css">
h1 {
color: #0070c0;
font-family: "Times New Roman",Times,serif;
color: #0078d4;
font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif;
font-weight: 600;
}
h3 {
color: #005a9e;
font-weight: 600;
}
body {
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif;
}
</style></head><body>
<h1><a target="_blank" href="http://www.classicshell.net/"><img src="images/OpenShell.png" style="border: 0px solid ; width: 64px; height: 64px;" alt="Open-Shell website" title="Open-Shell website"></a>&nbsp; Classic Explorer</h1><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 112, 192); font-weight: bold;"></span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Classic
<a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu"><img src="images/OpenShell.png" style="border: 0px solid ; width: 64px; height: 64px; float:left;" alt="Open-Shell website" title="Open-Shell website"></a><h1 style="padding-top: 12px; padding-bottom: 12px;">&nbsp; Classic Explorer</h1><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">Classic
Explorer</span> is a plugin for Windows Explorer that:
<ul>
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</ul><br>
<h1><a name="copy"></a>New copy UI (Windows 7 only)<br>
<h1><a name="copy"></a>Classic copy UI (Windows 7 only)<br>
</h1>
In Vista when you copy files and there is a conflict you are presented
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<br>
<img src="images/before.png" style="width: 460px; height: 472px;" alt="Before" title="Before"><br>
<img src="images/before.png" style="width: 345px;" alt="Before" title="Before"><br>
<p>What&#8217;s wrong with it?</p>
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move the mouse around to discover the UI like in a <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle">Lucas Arts
adventure game</a>. And finally the keyboard usability is awful. To
tell it
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">&#8220;yes, I know what I&#8217;m doing, I want to overwrite all files&#8221;</span> you have to
press <strong><span style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Alt+D, up, up, up, Space</span></strong>! It is harder than performing the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErqKebdqjU&amp;feature=fvw">Akuma
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">&#8220;yes, I know what I&#8217;m doing, I want to overwrite all files&#8221;</span> you have to
press <strong><span style="color: #2b88d8;">Alt+D, up, up, up, Space</span></strong>! It is harder than performing the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AErqKebdqjU&amp;feature=fvw">Akuma
Kara Demon move</a> in Street Fighter 3. There is a time and a place
for
that stuff and copying files is not it.</p>
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<p>The Classic Explorer plugin brings back the simpler dialog box from Windows XP:<br>
</p>
<p><img src="images/after.png" style="width: 438px; height: 251px;" alt="After" title="After"><br>
<p><img src="images/after.png" style="width: 320px;" alt="After" title="After"><br>
</p>
<p>It
is immediately clear what is clickable <span style="font-style: italic;">(clue &#8211; the buttons at the
bottom)</span>, there is easy keyboard navigation (press <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Y</span> for &#8220;Yes&#8221;, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">A</span> to
bottom)</span>, there is easy keyboard navigation (press <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">Y</span> for &#8220;Yes&#8221;, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">A</span> to
copy all files) and you can still see which file is newer and which is
larger. And of course just like in Windows XP, holding down <strong style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Shift</strong> while clicking on the No button means "No to All" (or just press <strong style="color: rgb(79, 129, 189);">Shift+N</strong>).<br>
larger. And of course just like in Windows XP, holding down <strong style="color: #2b88d8;">Shift</strong> while clicking on the No button means "No to All" (or just press <strong style="color: #2b88d8;">Shift+N</strong>).<br>
</p>
<p>If you click
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<p>To solve the problem, the Classic Explorer plugin adds a new toolbar:<br>
</p>
&nbsp;<img src="images/toolbar.png" alt="Explorer Toolbar" title="Explorer Toolbar"><br>
&nbsp;<img src="images/toolbar.png" style="width: 545px;" alt="Explorer Toolbar" title="Explorer Toolbar"><br>
<br>
The available button are: Go Up, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Properties,
Email, Settings. More buttons can be added from the Settings dialog.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">Hints:</span><br>
<span style="font-weight: bold; color: #2b88d8;">Hints:</span><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Hold the <strong>Control key</strong> when clicking the Up button to open the parent folder in a new Explorer window.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Hold the <strong>Shift key</strong> when clicking the Delete button to permanently delete a file<br>
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The new toolbar doesn&#8217;t show up in Explorer automatically after
installation. You have to do a few things before you can use it:<br>
<ol style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">
<ol style="font-family: "Segoe UI",Tahoma,sans-serif;">
<li>Open a new Windows Explorer window (Win key+E)</li>
<li>Turn on the menu in Explorer &#8211; Go to Tools (Alt+T), Folder
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</h1>
Classic Explorer restores the original Explorer status bar that shows the free disk space and the size of the selected files:<br>
<br>
<img src="images/statusbar.png" style="width: 507px; height: 26px;" alt="File size in status bar" title="File size in status bar"><br>
<img src="images/statusbar.png" style="width: 380px;" alt="File size in status bar" title="File size in status bar"><br>
<br>
Unlike the built-in status bar, the selection size is shown even if
more than 100 files are selected. When no files are selected the total
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Details Pane you see at the bottom of Explorer. You can turn off the
Details Pane from the Organize menu to save space. Also there is a bug
in the Windows 7 Explorer that sometimes doesn't show any text in the
status bar. Press <strong style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">F5</strong> to refresh the view and get the status text.<br>
<br><strong>Windows 8 note:</strong> Classic Explorer adds its own
status bar. Press <strong style="color: #2b88d8;">F5</strong> to refresh the view and get the status text.<br>
<br><strong>Windows 8+ note:</strong> Classic Explorer adds its own
status bar. You should hide the default status bar to save space.
Select the View tab in the ribbon, then click on Options. Select the
View tab in the options. Locate the checkbox "Show status bar" and
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<br>
<h1><a name="settings"></a>Settings</h1>You can access the settings of Classic Explorer from the toolbar or from the start menu:<br>
<img style="width: 682px; height: 465px;" alt="" src="images/explorer_settings.png"><br>
<h1><a name="settings"></a>Settings</h1>You can access the settings of Classic Explorer from the toolbar or from the Start menu:<br>
<br><img style="width: 512px;" alt="" src="images/explorer_settings.png"><br>
<br>You can choose from seeing only the basic settings, or all
available settings. Hover over each setting to see a description of
what it's for. Type in the search box to find a setting by name.<br>
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<br>
Here's one example of what can be customized:<br>
<img src="images/titlebar.png" alt="Title bar tweaks" title="Title bar tweaks"><br>
<img src="images/titlebar.png" style="width: 545px;" alt="Title bar tweaks" title="Title bar tweaks"><br>
<br>
Click on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Toolbar Buttons</span> tab to customize the toolbar:<br>
<img style="width: 682px; height: 465px;" alt="" src="images/toolbar_settings.png"><br>
<img style="width: 512px;" alt="" src="images/toolbar_settings.png"><br>
<br>The column on the left shows the current buttons in the toolbar,
and the column on the right lists the buttons you can add to the
toolbar. You can drag and drop buttons from the right column to the
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Important Note:</span> Not all available commands have default icons or text. That's because Windows doesn't have icons for things like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Undo</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Select All</span>, etc. If you want to use such buttons in your toolbar you will have to provide your own icon. See below how to do it.<br>
<br>
After you place a button in the toolbar, you can edit it's attributes. Double-click on the button to edit:<br>
<img style="width: 446px; height: 375px;" alt="Edit toolbar button" title="Edit toolbar button" src="images/button_settings.png"><br>
<img style="width: 335px;" alt="Edit toolbar button" title="Edit toolbar button" src="images/button_settings.png"><br>
Here you can select a command for the button, its text and icon. Press the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Restore Defaults</span> button to get the default text and icon for the chosen command.<br>
The command can be:<br>
<ul>
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per user and are stored in the registry. By default every user can edit
all of their settings. An administrator can lock specific settings, so
no user can edit them:<br>
<img style="width: 682px; height: 465px;" alt="" src="images/up_locked.png"><br>
<img style="width: 512px;" alt="" src="images/up_locked.png"><br>
In this example the setting "Show Up button" is locked to always be
"Before Back/Forward" and can't be changed by any user. This is achieved
by adding the setting to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\OpenShell\ClassicExplorer</span> registry key. Create a string value called "ShowUpButton" and set it to "BeforeBack".<br>
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<br>
There is also a global setting <span style="font-weight: bold;">EnableSettings</span>. Set it to 0 in the
registry to prevent the users from even opening the Settings dialog:<br>
<img style="width: 603px; height: 257px;" alt="Disable all settings" title="Disable all settings" src="images/settings_disable_ex.png"><br>
<img style="width: 452px;" alt="Disable all settings" title="Disable all settings" src="images/settings_disable_ex.png"><br>
<br>
You can enable or disable Classic Explorer for individual processes
using the 2 registry settings "ProcessWhiteList" and