Bringing back classic desktop context menu for 19H1 ++

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I had an issue with using this, it made explorer crash when you right click an item in the start menu all programs menu.

Same it happens when using StartIsBack++ without the XP Flyout style enabled

rikka0w0

Hi all,
This is a known problem, and I have noticed this during the development of the pre-alpha version.
It is not a compatibility problem with other software, the crashing is caused by thread-unsafe code injection (To change context menu appearance)
but unfortunately, for now, I could not offer a better solution.

To achieve a crash-less solution (with thread-safe injection), we need to know how explorer.exe and other shell stuff works so that we can decide when and where to inject our code
But it is so hard find useful information about the internal of windows explorer and shell beyond shell extensions
So, if you guys know someone who is familiar with shell programming, please introduce him/her to me! I really need help

Besides waiting for a fix, I think you can try out third-party themes (requires uxtheme) which includes a customized context menu appearance
There's also a vote on Reddit to ask Microsoft bring back this feature, the best outcome would be Microsoft adding back this option so we don't need to make tricky patches again.