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https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
Allows one to modify various Windows 11 features.
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This was most notably to get a usable taskbar with full program names, but the feature was added natively to Windows 11 (although often with shorter names)
- 2024-07-31 - 22621.3527.65.5 on Windows 11 - why do I have this? I'll just archive it.
- 2023-11-23 - 22621.2506.60.1 on Windows 11
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2023-09-16 - 22621.1992.56.1 on Windows 11 - uninstalled
- An install of 22621.1992.56.3 completely buggered everything, and I can't even install the earlier supposedly-working version.
- 2023-08-21 - 22621.1992.56.1 on Windows 11
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2023-03-20 - 22621.1413.54.3 on Windows 11
- 2023-03-17 - 22621.1344.53.1 on Windows 11
- 2022-11-27 - 22621.608.51.6 on Windows 11
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2022-07-06 - (version not recorded) on Windows 11
2023-08-21 - 22621.1992.56.1 ∞
[FIX/WORKAROUND] - Explorer keeps re-starting ∞
A recent Windows 11 update broke ExplorerPatcher, causing explorer to continually re-launch. To fix this.
- Uninstall ExplorerPatcher
- Launch
regedit.exe
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Search for
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ExplorerPatcher
- Delete that folder and its sub-folders.
- Reboot
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Reinstall ExplorerPatcher.
- It will take some time, but it will work with all your earlier settings.
Thanks to https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/1702
2023-03-17 - 22621.1344.53.1 ∞
[FIXED] - Task View doesn't work ∞
SOLVED: Fixed in 22621.1413.54.3
See Windows 11.
A Windows 10 taskbar style removes the Task View [ 1 ] UI with either the windows-tab
hotkey or the task bar button. While I can use things like control-windows-right
to switch to the right desktop, I cannot pull up the UI.
The workaround is to reset it back to Windows 10 style. Frankly I'd rather lose the functionality until it's fixed by the maintainer.
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#1098 - Task View no longer working with most recent update
- Apparently the program is a bit of a tangled mess on the inside.
Alternatives ∞
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A lot of the defaults in Windows 11 aren't all that bad. You can check out Winaero Tweaker to make many things sensible; it's comprehensive.
Last updated 2024-07-31 at 17:16:09
Footnotes
- on Wikipedia [ ↩ ]
Noting that Task View doesn't work.
Task View has been fixed.
The constant explorer re-launch has a workaround.
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