New Version of ExplorerPatcher

valinet · Mar 23, 2022

yosi cohen said:
Peace
I'm happy if you add the Hebrew language
Thank you

It won’t be added. And I don’t think you should be sad because of that.

Matter of fact, it’s not about Hebrew. Support for any language besides English won’t be added officially as it’s too cumbersome to maintain. The project is hobby enough to not warrant the need for localization in my opinion. The app is usable as is just fine, translations don’t bring anything functionally wise.

Wynona · Mar 23, 2022

AndreTen said:
What menu do you get? ExplorerPatcher should open if you click on Properties in Start

And about your Right click on Start menu.. Is it working if you uninstall ExplorerPatcher?

Here ya go, Andre:

I guess this would be the Settings Menu.

I will uninstall EP to check if I can right click on the Start Button.

Wynona · Mar 23, 2022

@AndreTen When I removed EP, I can now right click on my Start Button. And . . . My Taskbar is still on top.

It probably won't be when I reboot.

The-Hive · Mar 23, 2022

One thing to try @Wynona hold down Left rubbish and Right Click Start Button, may work, it does on mine

Wynona · Mar 23, 2022

The-Hive said:
One thing to try @Wynona hold down Left rubbish and Right Click Start Button, may work, it does on mine

What's Left rubbish? Never heard that term.

The-Hive · Mar 23, 2022

Woops, Left Shift I don't know where that came from Duh me

AndreTen · Mar 23, 2022

Wynona said:
@AndreTen When I removed EP, I can now right click on my Start Button. And . . . My Taskbar is still on top.

It probably won't be when I reboot.

Hope it does. There is a lot of info about problems with right clicking Start in Windows 11

XEmberX · Mar 23, 2022

I'm only getting these options in the registry for explorer patcher. Is there supposed to be more?
Also, if I switch back to the Windows 11 taskbar within explorer patcher, the icons work again. Is it possible to use the Windows 11 taskbar icons instead of Windows 10 icons when in Windows 10 taskbar mode? Since mine aren't working.

The-Hive · Mar 23, 2022

@XEmberX Here is mine, It may be due to the way you have it set up

The-Hive · Mar 23, 2022

The issue I had on one of my machines with the top of line of text missing was fixed in todays download

cbiweb · Mar 23, 2022

Is there a GUI for settings? I just installed ExplorerPatcher and I like what I see, but I thought I read somewhere that there are settings for it?

Edit: Nevermind, found it. Right-click taskbar, click Properties.

AndreTen · Mar 24, 2022

cbiweb said:
Is there a GUI for settings? I just installed ExplorerPatcher and I like what I see, but I thought I read somewhere that there are settings for it?

Edit: Nevermind, found it. Right-click taskbar, click Properties.

Right click on Taskbar gives you Propertis - click on it. If not available on Taskbar (sometimes it happen) you have Properties (ExplorerPatcher) entry in Start menu under Apps

cbiweb · Mar 24, 2022

AndreTen said:
Right click on Taskbar gives you Propertis - click on it.

Yes, I mentioned that in my post. lol

The-Hive · Mar 24, 2022

Well updated to the latest Dev Build today 22581.1 and back to a transparent taskbar

but at least it is fully functionable, any way uninstalled EP for the time being

valinet · Mar 24, 2022

The-Hive said:
Well updated to the latest Dev Build today 22581.1 and back to a transparent taskbar but at least it is fully functionable, any way uninstalled EP for the time being

Well, Microsoft/the compiler completely shoveled up the `explorer!UpdateWindowAccentProperties` method and now it only contains the new, broken code path, and thus acrylic fails to apply to the taskbar properly, hence it becoming fully transparent. Again, thank Microsoft for flipping everything they can get their hands on.

The-Hive · Mar 24, 2022

Thanks for the Info @valinet, It is annoying but not a big issue for me as it only affects my "test" partition running in the dev channel, all my main pc's are on stable builds and all is fine. I wonder if the MS blunder is fixable

stevemagruder · Mar 24, 2022

valinet said:
What visual effect?

Transparent Gradient. And they have several other styles to choose from.

stevemagruder · Mar 24, 2022

Also, I just upgraded to the Windows 11 Beta (22H2 Build 22581.1) and ExplorerPatcher 43.1 around the same time this morning. I'm getting a spontaneous restart of File Explorer whenever I hover over an icon on the taskbar.

Edit: This doesn't happen with EP 43.1 on Windows 10.

jerrypc1 · Mar 24, 2022

just upgraded this morning

The-Hive · Mar 24, 2022

@jerrypc1 Is it ok I wonder? I haven't really looked, apart from EP everything else works fine (I think) I was debating whether to roll back or not but at the moment I think not