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Classic Shell 4.0.2

October 21, 2013, 13:52(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Classic Shell version 4.0.2 is out.
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Classic Shell has been around for nearly 4 years.
It has recently attracted attention from a wider audience because of its Start Menu addon/replacement called Classic Start Menu.
IMHO it is the best freeware Windows 8 start menu program.

Version 4.0.2 general release (Oct, 2013):
Quick fix for the taskbar showing up on top of fullscreen programs under some conditions
Version 4.0.1 general release (Oct, 2013):
New setting to hide Metro apps from the Programs folder
Improved compatibility with the final build of Windows 8.1
Minor bugfixes

Bad Tweak – Using ProfilesDirectory Setting

October 19, 2013, 12:36(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Ed Bott has an excellent post up: Don’t move your Windows user profiles folder to another drive
I’ve always advocated moving your My Documents / Libraries folder to a drive or partition. The method I’ve always suggested is using the Microsoft supported method of using “Move”. See: Move Your Libraries
It seems somewhere there are tweaks being posted that involve moving your Profile folder using the ProfilesDirectory setting. The downside of using this unsupported tweak is “Using this setting to redirect folders to a drive other than the system volume blocks upgrades.” as folks who used this tweak and tried to upgrade to 8.1 just found out. See the article listed above for more info. Well done Ed.
Added to Bad Tweaks.

Windows 8.1 Registry Tweaks I Am Using

October 18, 2013, 11:19(EDT) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

This is for my fellow Geeks.
***WARNING***
This is for advanced users only.
BACKUP before using tweaks.
As I said, this is for advanced users only.
No “how to use”, no support, no whining. [Read more…] about Windows 8.1 Registry Tweaks I Am Using