New Update ExplorerPatcher 22621.2283.57.2

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ExplorerPatcher is a versatile and free tool that allows you to tweak and enhance the Windows Explorer. It comes with a range of useful features, including the ability to add new context menu items, change file name colors, and enable hidden features.

Feature summary

• Choose between Windows 11 or Windows 10 taskbar (with labels support, small icons and lots of customization).
• Disable Windows 11 context menu and command bar in File Explorer and more.
• Open Start to All apps by default, choose number of frequent apps to show, display on active monitor and more.
• Choose between the Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows NT Alt-Tab window switcher with customization.

Lots of quality of life improvements for the shell, like:

• Skin tray menus to match Windows style, make them behave like flyouts and center them relative to the icon.
• Choose action when left and/or right clicking the network icon.
• Revert to the Windows 7 search box in File Explorer, or disable Windows Search altogether.
• Disable immersive menus and use mitigations that help you run the real classic theme without glitches.
• Discover the program's full range of features by reading this wiki article.
  

ExplorerPatcher 22621.2283.57.2 changelog:

Tested on OS build 22621.2283. Installer requires Internet connectivity.

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• Taskbar10: Fixed Action Center, Control Center, and notification toasts placements on OS builds 22621.2134+ (thanks @Amrsatrio).​
• Taskbar10: Fixed a bug that prevented Task View and/or the window switcher (Alt+Tab) from working on OS builds 22621.2134+ (thanks @Amrsatrio).​
• Taskbar10: Fixed a bug that prevented the volume and brightness flyouts from displaying (thanks @Amrsatrio)​
• Taskbar10: Fixed a bug that prevented the Win+A (Action Center), Win+N (Control Center), and Win+B (Focus on tray overflow button) shortcuts from working on OS builds 22621.2134+ (thanks @Amrsatrio).​
• Taskbar10: Fixed the context menu of the new IME button OS builds 22621.2134+ (thanks @Amrsatrio).​
• Taskbar11: Fixed a bug that crashed explorer.exe when right clicking the taskbar on OS builds 22621.2134+.​
• Quality of life improvements regarding symbol data (thanks @Amrsatrio).​
• Fixed a bug that crashed explorer.exe on OS builds lower than 22621 (Windows 11 22H2).​

Homepage Github

GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

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Download link

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/download/22621.2283.57.2_40d63f1/ep_setup.exe

 

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ExplorerPatcher 22621.2361.58.1 changelog:

Tested on OS builds 22000.2416, 22621.1, 22621.2134, 22621.2361, 22631.2338, and 23545.1000.

• Taskbar10: Fixed Windows 10 taskbar not showing up on Windows 11 builds with "Never combine" on the new taskbar. (bc3bbc7)
• Taskbar10: Fixed pen menu crashing explorer.exe on 22621.2134+. (1977d78)
• Taskbar11: Fixed a bug that crashed explorer.exe when right clicking the new taskbar on Windows 11 builds with "Never combine" on the new taskbar. (6023718)
• File Explorer: EP now tries to avoid crashes related to the new Windows App SDK views. (b426d2c)
• On OS builds 22621+, fixed a bug that crashed explorer.exe when required functions in twinui.pcshell.dll (for Win+X and Windows 10 Alt+Tab) could not be found using the fallback method. (6023718)

Download link

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/download/22621.2361.58.1_05611dd/ep_setup.exe

 

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ExplorerPatcher 22621.2361.58.3 changelog:

Tested on OS builds 22000.2416, 22621.1, 22621.2134, 22621.2361, 22631.2338, and 23545.1000.

• Taskbar10: Fixed Windows 10 taskbar not showing up on Windows 11 builds with "Never combine" on the new taskbar.
• Taskbar10: Fixed pen menu crashing explorer.exe on 22621.2134+.
• Taskbar11: Fixed a bug that crashed explorer.exe when right clicking the new taskbar on Windows 11 builds with "Never combine" on the new taskbar.
• File Explorer: EP now tries to avoid crashes related to the new Windows App SDK views. (b426d2c)
• On OS builds 22621+, fixed a bug that crashed explorer.exe when required functions in twinui.pcshell.dll (for Win+X and Windows 10 Alt+Tab) could not be found using the fallback method.
• Taskbar11: Fixed a bug that reset the "never combine" setting on OS builds 22621.2361+
• Taskbar10: Fixed Wi-Fi flyout buttons on OS build 22621
• Start10: Fixed start menu folders, show recently added, and show frequently used apps settings not being applied on OS builds 22621.2134+
• Start10: Pin to Start/Unpin from Start has been properly fixed on Start Menu and Explorer (but not Search yet) of all Windows 11 builds.
• Start10: Fixed non-UWP apps not appearing on Dev channel builds 23545+. (a4f5bd0)
• File Explorer: Fixed command bar settings not being applied on non-primary Explorer instances on Windows 11.

Homepage Github

GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows - GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

github.com

Download link

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/download/22621.2361.58.3_0b57e78/ep_setup.exe

 

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ExplorerPatcher 22621.2428.59.1 changelog:

Tested on OS builds 22000.2416, 22621.2428, 23555.1000, and 23560.1000.

Note: After updating to this version, the symbols will be re-downloaded even if they have been downloaded before.

• Taskbar10: Fixed Control Center and Toast Center positioning on build 25951 (Canary). (dca0b3a)
• Taskbar10: Fixed start menu position when the taskbar is at the left or right side on Moment 4 builds. (a57471f)
• Taskbar10: Fixed the Windows 10 taskbar background patch to not crash anymore on build 25951 (Canary). (b52bd79)
• Taskbar10: Made taskbar fonts (when using classic theme mitigations) more accurate (thanks @aubymori). (8fc53a1)
• Start10: Fixed a bug where certain texts in the Windows 10 Start menu stayed in English. (655e62c, 5321766)
• Start10: Properly fixed start menu showing/hiding along with its original animations on builds 22000.65+. (7e2f768)
• GUI: Fixed a bug where "Remember last used section" doesn't remember the current page after being enabled. (11160c8)
• Symbols: Reworked how symbols are managed so that symbols don't need to be successfully downloaded in succession. (8412bd6)

Please consult the README for more details.
A detailed change log is available here.

Homepage

GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows - GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

github.com

Download link

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/download/22621.2428.59.1_a77aff4/ep_setup.exe

 

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ExplorerPatcher 22621.2506.60.1 changelog:

Tested on OS builds 22000.2416, 22621.2361, 22621.2506, and 23585.1001.

• Taskbar10: Partially fixed Windows 11 Start menu and Search positioning on builds 23545+ (Dev). (ac268b1)
• Changing the taskbar alignment requires restarting explorer.exe in order to take effect.
• File Explorer: Added option to disable the modern navigation bar of Moment 4. (2dc1340)
• File Explorer: Restored "Apply Mica" functionality on OS builds 22621+. (f62c532)
• Localization: Officially added translations for the following languages:
• Chinese, Simplified (Thanks @zetaloop!)
• Japanese (Thanks @creeper-0910, @reindex-ot, and @Rukoto!)
• GUI: Decoupled the Properties window into ep_gui.dll from the main DLL in order to reduce the main DLL size and to allow scalable localization. (f6f6d89, 639d7aa)
• rundll32 C:\Windows\dxgi.dll,ZZGUI will continue to work as before.

In this update, most if not all user-facing parts of ExplorerPatcher have been made localizable.

• The English texts have been put together into here and here.
• Non-English texts have been designed to be put into this separate repository. Feel free to make a PR there if you want to contribute to translations.
• Some texts have been updated to be more concise and accurate, so for existing translation fork maintainers, please double check the translations before making a PR to the said repository.
• Also for translation fork maintainers, a large number of conflicts will happen if you decide to continue merging changes from the main repository.
• Please let us know through Issues if there are still user-facing parts of ExplorerPatcher that are not localizable.

Homepage

GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows - GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher: This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

github.com

Download link

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/download/22621.2506.60.1_3b902d0/ep_setup.exe