New Version of ExplorerPatcher


I was just triggered the 22h2 install I saw in the windows update. I also set my preview channel to unenroll me at next major update.


After update was done I installed latest version of EP and it worked fine! I also noted that this machine is no longer enrolled in Window Insider which is what I was hoping for.
Great Scott, I am glad you are sorted (y)
 

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Anyone else have problems with the language?
After a while the language of the right click menu changes from Dutch to English.
When I restart the explorer, it's back to Dutch. Few hours later the menu turns back to English.

Explorer patcher:

22000.708.46.6​

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How might I find what changes are made with each new build of ExplorerPatcher? I'm sure this information is probably on the GitHub site, but I cannot locate a change log. Thanks.
 

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How might I find what changes are made with each new build of ExplorerPatcher? I'm sure this information is probably on the GitHub site, but I cannot locate a change log. Thanks.
here it is...

 

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Small issue with using the Windows 10 taskbar style, items are a little laggy and stuttery when moving and being dragged across. Also, would it be possible to have the Windows 11 taskbar bring up the Windows 10 calendar with the events for each date when clicking on the time?
 

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I just wish there was a way to suggest to the developer - perhaps through a donation - to add the ability to use the Windows 11 tabbed explorer on Windows 10. That would be amazing.
 

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I just wish there was a way to suggest to the developer - perhaps through a donation - to add the ability to use the Windows 11 tabbed explorer on Windows 10. That would be amazing.
Donations have nothing to do with development of the app. I mentioned it a couple of times already, donations are not necessary or required in any way, they are of course appreciated, but are completely voluntary and unsolicited and come with no strings attached - the software is and will always be free (unless anything major changes on my mind), it doesn’t require any monetary contribution in any way: not to unlock features, not to speed up development, not to prioritize a feature, not to fix a bug, as I cannot exchange the money for more hours a day or more/faster acquired knowledge. If I could buy more hours a day using the donations money, the software would probably be shareware, $1 per activation or something like that :)))

This is a hobby project that I work on when I have the time to and mood for etc and by the nature of it, everything is usually a couple of notches more difficult to do than the usual since I hook someone’s code and alter it rather than rolling my own.

The best course of action for this program is not actually to donate, but rather people to start contributing and helping with maintaining it by fixing code, adding in new patches etc. and, as is with many other things, money can’t really help with that. It takes a lot of (mostly boring) time to maintain and I also have to take care of work and other things and projects I am involved in. The outside situation has changed as well, there’s more collaboration and talking and stuff to do at work now that I actually go in person, and yeah, honestly, I don’t put in the amount of time I used to put when development was in its prime. But honestly, that wasn’t sustainable long term - from August last year to late February/early March this year I basically stayed in my house and worked all day (literally) on ExplorerPatcher. I mostly feelI jumped from last summer to this summer, honestly. Yeah, time flew by pretty much, I barely felt the months passing by. The pandemic was a big factor in this, with most stuff being restricted, having night curfews, not being required to go to work in person etc., but it also contributed to some bad habits I accentuated, like a shoveled up sleep schedule, not exercising enough etc.

So yeah, morale of the story - numbers count. Despite all the willingness and goodwill in the world, two such persons do twice the amount of work of one such person. ExplorerPatcher is a fairly large project. For it to be sustainable, really, constant work and maintenance from multiple people is really what is required. Money doesn’t help with that since it’s not enough to make a living for a team off of it (not even for a person), and realistically, even if it were, no one wants to spend their whole life working on this project, since it’s a boring job with most of the academically interesting parts having already looked into. With not much to learn from working on it, there’s little incentive to continue pursuing in its direction, honestly.
 

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Hello Valinet
thank you for those explanations.
I would like to know if your project will stop at version 22000.xxxxx
or do you plan to extend the experience for Beta version 22621.1
I tested your latest version with 22621.1 everything works well except win+X.
I want to thank you for your extraordinary will and talent.
bests regards.
 

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Anyone else have problems with the language?
After a while the language of the right click menu changes from Dutch to English.
When I restart the explorer, it's back to Dutch. Few hours later the menu turns back to English.

Explorer patcher:

22000.708.46.6​

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you have the 22H2, me too, the EP only works partially here, maybe valinet will develop a new version for the 22H2, 🤔

You can read here more: New Version of ExplorerPatcher
 
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Donations have nothing to do with development of the app. I mentioned it a couple of times already, donations are not necessary or required in any way, they are of course appreciated, but are completely voluntary and unsolicited and come with no strings attached - the software is and will always be free (unless anything major changes on my mind), it doesn’t require any monetary contribution in any way: not to unlock features, not to speed up development, not to prioritize a feature, not to fix a bug, as I cannot exchange the money for more hours a day or more/faster acquired knowledge. If I could buy more hours a day using the donations money, the software would probably be shareware, $1 per activation or something like that :)))

This is a hobby project that I work on when I have the time to and mood for etc and by the nature of it, everything is usually a couple of notches more difficult to do than the usual since I hook someone’s code and alter it rather than rolling my own.

The best course of action for this program is not actually to donate, but rather people to start contributing and helping with maintaining it by fixing code, adding in new patches etc. and, as is with many other things, money can’t really help with that. It takes a lot of (mostly boring) time to maintain and I also have to take care of work and other things and projects I am involved in. The outside situation has changed as well, there’s more collaboration and talking and stuff to do at work now that I actually go in person, and yeah, honestly, I don’t put in the amount of time I used to put when development was in its prime. But honestly, that wasn’t sustainable long term - from August last year to late February/early March this year I basically stayed in my house and worked all day (literally) on ExplorerPatcher. I mostly feelI jumped from last summer to this summer, honestly. Yeah, time flew by pretty much, I barely felt the months passing by. The pandemic was a big factor in this, with most stuff being restricted, having night curfews, not being required to go to work in person etc., but it also contributed to some bad habits I accentuated, like a shoveled up sleep schedule, not exercising enough etc.

So yeah, morale of the story - numbers count. Despite all the willingness and goodwill in the world, two such persons do twice the amount of work of one such person. ExplorerPatcher is a fairly large project. For it to be sustainable, really, constant work and maintenance from multiple people is really what is required. Money doesn’t help with that since it’s not enough to make a living for a team off of it (not even for a person), and realistically, even if it were, no one wants to spend their whole life working on this project, since it’s a boring job with most of the academically interesting parts having already looked into. With not much to learn from working on it, there’s little incentive to continue pursuing in its direction, honestly.
I didn't realize you were monitoring this thread, my apologies. Everything you've said here is understandable.

I can't help but think you'd have better luck finding a developer if you somehow integrated a plea for a developer knowledgeable with C and working with win32 into the software itself. Right now ep_setup.exe patches explorer the moment you launch it, which surprised me because I expected a traditional setup wizard.

You could have it be a setup wizard, but making the first thing someone sees when launching it is that you need a developer or developers to help you maintain the project.

Lastly, this is a bit off-topic, but I have a question that I think only someone as knowledgeable as you might know. I've noticed when working with my C# project that Windows treats differently windows that were minimized via the minimize button in the top right and windows that were minimized by clicking on them on the taskbar. Only when the minimize button was used did getting its tile on the taskbar to flash work correctly. Do you know why this is? I tried examining the window styles for each case, but no differences were detected. It's rather bizarre.


EDIT: Have you thought about getting a hold of the developer of 7+ Taskbar Tweaker? There is some overlap in what your project and his project does, he would have the requisite knowledge to help, and you could potentially combine your two apps together.
 
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hello;
here is an example of taskbar 22621.105 association with start Menu ExplorerPatcher
thank you Valinet.
 

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An excrept from a recent email where I tried to describe the current state of affairs when it comes to ExplorerPatcher:

I have been bombarded by similar emails since Microsoft has pushed this update, although I don’t know what to reply, honestly. No, I was not working on it, and I will explain why and the state of the program in the coming paragraphs.

First of all, I don’t try to improve Windows - I developed it to help me learn some things and have it fix some stuff I did not like about Windows 11, because I still preferred this newer OS because of things it actually improved.

When I started working in this, things were totally different: my world was mostly locked down, due to the pandemic, I was staying in my home all day and work was less demanding because of the economic recession etc. Today, things have changed dramatically:
* I completed my learning process in this area. The topic doesn’t interest me that much anymore, I am keen on exploring new areas.
* I have WAY more work to do, both at my job and for the other gigs I run. The world is (finally) relatively normal again (except energy taxes) and this consumes most of my time now. The rest remains mostly for my other projects.
* I don’t really have a desire in maintaining this forever, at least not alone. I honestly don’t have and don’t want to waste the time each and every month to fix this program against Microsoft’s latest madness. I run Windows Enterprise, where I set updates to manual, so I can update the PC every 2/3 months between reboots (yeah, I reboot it every couple of weeks/months, not days). I use my computer for tons of work, neither can I realistically afford spending half the month fixing the program for the latest OS build, nor can I install the new OS build each month; it’s too often, not even a phone updates that frequently, it’s insane. I am looking forward to the first upcoming Windows 11 LTSC so I can roll with that for 5 years and not bother with the new changes.

In the beginning, as I said, things were different, I was working on this non stop, literally the entire day, it almost drove me nuts (lack of proper sleep, 10+ hrs sessions, had to moderate and manage the community as well, there was a lot of very demanding work to do etc). Nowadays, I cannot do that and honestly I don’t want to either. I want to move on. I specifically open sourced the app in the hope that I could gather a community interested in working together and us helping maintain it. Almost one year later, it’s obvious that this goal has failed, and with it, yeah, the expectations that this will be fixed monthly. I mean, yeah, I will fix this at some point, I still hope that, when I’ll have the time. I want to upgrade to the newer OS branch as well, and will do at some point when I will have a window of opportunity. But now, I kind of lack that. Tomorrow I have a full day at work, so don’t know if I will be able to work on this. And so on the entire week. And upcoming month.

I repeatedly advised most people to try to take things methodically and attempt to determine the cause and maybe a fix for the problems themselves. There is documentation, there are tutorials posted, I can answer specific questions, although no one seems interested in this. Everyone seems interested only in limiting themselves to reporting what is already known, on the highest of the levels, and a few offer to test themselves, both of which I appreciate, although after testing and reporting, there’s also proper diagnosing and developing fixes, and there no one is eager to help, for some reason. I mean, it’s nice to know I have the support, but good will and moral support are not enough when it comes to actually doing things. Getting down to debugging the program, trying to fix it with the source code sitting aside, asking about stuff and eventually reaching a solution is what is required, actually. I was hoping for WAY more in this department, but as it currently stands, it’s either me doing this type of work, either the project dies off, which is pretty sad. That’s not to say, I had a few contributions which I am very thankful for, but in the grand scheme of things, the project’s kind of dead, you could say, because I don’t have the time/desire to work full time on these kind of things anymore. It’s not rewarding in any way, not new knowledge, nothing, not even financially, although even if it did provide financially, I’d honestly prefer to work something else for the money instead of maintaining this. This is tedious to maintain as a program, it hardly brings any joy, or at least that’s how I perceive it.

So yeah, that’s the state of ExplorerPatcher today. Everyone is of course free to understand what they want. No, I won’t open the forums at GitHub since they still do not allow for closing the issues section for the general public and I don’t want it to get flooded with duplicate reports and uncategorized issues, since I don’t have time (or the willingness) to moderate that either.

Thanks
 

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Thanks @valinet appreciate it.

Also asking if anyone knows this, the context menu on the windows 10 start button isn't working for me. Anyone managed to fix this on their own?

I understand that it has something to do with the .pri files as mentioned by valinet in "PSA: Support for Windows 10 Start menu · Discussion #920 · valinet/ExplorerPatcher", in which it's also a contribution from "bbmaster123" 's 10SM.

from 10SM, you can find the .pri files which you need to replace your system files. problem that I have now is I couldn't replace some of the system files due to system32 files/folder in use or some other error on user-mapped action open which i don't really understand.

appreciate it if i could find a definite fix for this or a fix for the replacing the .pri files.

1656401086829.png (right clicking this). also on latest build of EP 22000.708.46.6
edit: I don't really understand what i'm doing. I'm just thinking logically in terms of how to fix this. I'm a noob. Just to clarify.
 

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EP version: 22000.708.46.6
I updated windows to version 22000.778 recently,and I found 'win +x' context menu not working.I'm not sure if it is somthing related to 'symbol'. Anyone can help me? thanks.
 

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EP version: 22000.708.46.6
I updated windows to version 22000.778 recently,and I found 'win +x' context menu not working.I'm not sure if it is somthing related to 'symbol'. Anyone can help me? thanks.
If you read through the thread and other news, the Explorer Patcher project is considered "resting" at the moment. You can use it with the native WIN11 taskbar but not with WIN10 taskbar anymore if you need WIN-X etc to work.

This is very sad but you have to accept and understand the developers reasons behind it.
 

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EP version: 22000.708.46.6
I updated windows to version 22000.778 recently,and I found 'win +x' context menu not working.I'm not sure if it is somthing related to 'symbol'. Anyone can help me? thanks.
answer is literally above mate. just install updates back to 739. or go back the tested 708.
 

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