New Version of ExplorerPatcher

starbuck said:

I just got pushed the 26200.8655 update and it broke my Explorer Patcher, but this pre-release appears to have it working again!

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I updated to 25H2 26200.8655 yesterday and have ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70.1 (latest official release) and it seems to be working fine. What problem do you see?

Windows Security disabled Explorer Patcher 70.2 as a Trojan. False positive and restored EP since Windows Defender should stop flagging me about non-existent threats.

EP 70.2 re-implemented support for the Windows 10 mode Microsoft removed in 8674. Details:

Introduced a re-implemented 10 Start menu tile layout engine that was removed in 26xxx.8474. (688514f)

• Note that the restoration is partial. Tiles can overlap when pinned via the Pin to Start option (doesn't happen when dragging items from apps list to the pinned area), this can be worked around by restarting StartMenuExperienceHost.exe or explorer.exe as a whole to repair the layout.
• Stay tuned on #4960 and the official Discord server for updates.

REMINDER: Always make sure you upgrade Explorer Patcher after installing Windows updates. Today my father called me because his laptop was stuck in a File Explorer crashing loop. I killed (End Task) File Explorer process from Task Manager and then loaded (New Task) Microsoft Edge (MSEDGE) so I could download latest Explorer Patcher version and install it. Once I installed latest version File Explorer worked properly and my father could finally use his laptop.

So if you encounter a File Explorer crashing loop, the solution is to install latest Explorer Patcher. Even if it is the same version, it might be corrupt (unsuccessful upgrade) and cause issues. Just download it again and reinstall to repair.