SOLUTION FOR BUILD 8117 AND ABOVE (REGISTRY FIX):
According to
this Github post, you can delete/modify a few specific Registry keys and upon restarting Classic Explorer Bar appears and works again!
The procedure is to this:
1) Search for
regedit and load Registry Editor.
2) Navigate to this key:
hkey local machine/system/current control set/control/FeatureManagement/Overrides/
3) Expand it and look inside key
15
4) Find key
1519792783, right-click on it and select Permissions.
5) Go to Advanced and change the owner from
System to
Administrators group. Make sure this is for all subfolders and files (subkeys and values).
6) Set full access rights to Administrators group, again for all subfolders and files.
7) Close the windows, return to Registry and delete key
1519792783.
8) Now find key
815149711, right-click on it and select Permissions.
9) Go to Advanced and change the owner from System to Administrators group. Make sure this is for all subfolders and files (subkeys and values).
10) Set full access rights to Administrators group, again for all subfolders and files.
11) Close the windows, return to Registry and delete key
815149711.
12) Now close key
15 and expand key
8.
13) Find key
815149711 (inside key 8) and expand it.
14) Make sure the value of
EnabledState parameter is set to
1. In case there is not available, create a new 32-bit word parameter, rename it to
EnabledState and set it to
1.
15) Close Registry Editor and restart your computer.
PS: I even dared to upgrade the virtual machine from build 8246 to 8328 and Classic Explorer Bar still works! Hurray!
