What Is Classic Shell Needs to Configure Itself for the New Operating System?
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Classic Shell is a high quality, reputed, free Start menu which offers the Windows 7/XP menu and other goodies on Windows 10. When you do updates to Windows, it deletes some part of Classic Shell’s configuration settings such as the “Pin” context menu action so it has to configure itself to repair that functionality.

What does classic shell needs to configure itself for the new operating system mean?

The reason you are getting this message is that Windows got upgraded to a new version (most likely the November update of Windows 10), which destroys some important settings of Classic Shell. Part of the setup needs to run again to repair it.

What is classic shell and do I need it?

Classic Shell is a utility program that has been around for several years now. It allows you to customize the look of your Windows system — especially if you want to make the Start menu in Windows 10 look like one from an older, more familiar version of Windows.

Sarah Jenkins

Sarah Jenkins

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Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.

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