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If I upgrade Win 10 1909 to 2004, should I uninstall Classic shell before doing it ?

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I’ve never needed to uninstall Classic Shell before moving from one version of Windows 10 to another.

However, sometimes after the new version finishes installing, a message has popped up claiming that Classic Shell is “incompatible” with Windows 10. For a while, Microsoft was even blacklisting Classic Shell’s filename, so that you couldn’t install it (you could get around this by renaming the EXE file), but I think these MS shenanigans have mostly abated now.

 

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Classic Shell is now Open Shell and the later versions work well on Win10.

Download Open Shell 4.4.160 here.

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[EP]

Classic Shell was discontinued a few years ago and superseded/replaced by Open Shell

remove Classic Shell and install Open Shell instead

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by EP.

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I am on 20H2 and have no problem with Classic Shell running. Yes, I get the messages about it not being acceptable but I just click past those and all is well.

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