I was going to create an Active Home page and was playing around with it, but I would like the basic Epicor dashboard back. How do I get that back? If I click on Classic it is the old version.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Carol
Both checkboxes should be unchecked on the login to see the basic Epicor home page. If you have auto-login turned on you can modify your shortcut like …
C:\Epicor\ERP10.2Client\Client\Epicor.exe /shell /config=EpicorTest10.sysconfig
Matt,
Thank you … I unchecked both boxes, but it came up with only Favorites … nothing like the vanilla dashboard.
I’ll keep working on it.
Thanks
Carol
Oh, I see. You’ve lost your 10 Home page. To fix this, you will have to right-click on the home screen and add a tile back, pick the General - Settings tile. This will get you to the settings where you can reset the layout of the home page back to normal.
Pro tip … export your home page layout before tinkering with the EDD page (learned the hard way).
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Looks like I am learning the hard way also. I’ve tried right clicking and I do not see the same thing. Thank goodness this is our test environment. Lol … but I know there are others that may try this, so I need to know how to fix.
Thank you
Carol
When you right click, this symbol pops up in the lower right hand corner. Click that and then you will see the settings that @mhelfrey shows.
The /shell item saved my bacon!
However it no longer works as of 2024.1 - I tried in Pilot and nope. This is going to make a lot of people unhappy.
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2024.1 only has the Kinetic menu homepage available. Classic (circa 2005) and Modern (circa 2012) are no longer options.
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In related news, the Windows 8 “Metro” desktop has also been deprecated and Internet Explorer no longer ships with Windows. 
In all seriousness, even in 10, the “Active Desktop” is better in pretty much any measurable way I can think of (except for the shocking lack of a dark mode). Yes, an adjustment period is required, but I cringe every time I see someone using Classic or Modern shells.
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I was going to say something similar… one might also note that Windows 8 Metro and “Epicor ERP Modern” were released at about the same time. I believe that our modern version was based off of what Microsoft had just released as the latest and greatest UI in all time… And you all probably know the fact that Metro was not a success.
Quotes from a Wikipedia article on Metro Design says:
However, he (Peter Bright) concluded that Windows 8’s user interface was frustrating and that the various aspects of the user interface did not work well together.[26] Woody Leonhard was even more critical when he said, “From the user’s standpoint, Windows 8 is a failure – an awkward mishmash that pulls the user in two directions at once.”
I personally would say that our “Modern” was not as bad as Metro, but it is still old and the Kinetic homepage is a better “modern” take on the subject.
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It was such a bad 
that Microsoft skipped “Windows 9” just to distance themselves from it.
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