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K, maybe not bloatware..., let's call 'em nags.
Well,, for me I left just about everything alone. The only change I made was to get rid of the more options from the context menu. I found a reg edit provided by Shawn. Other than that I didn't have a reason to change a thing
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage" /v "ACP" /t REG_SZ /d "65001" /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage" /v "OEMCP" /t REG_SZ /d "65001" /f
REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage" /v "MACCP" /t REG_SZ /d "65001" /f
Thanks for the tip on RoundedTB. That really makes the Centered Taskbar much more palatable and gets us closer to the Mac Dock which MS has been coveting since macOS came out. Well, when OSX came out.
As far as the Start Menu and the Taskbar are concerned, there's nothing to learn aside from the fact that they suck hard.
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@hdmiAs far as the Start Menu and the Taskbar are concerned, there's nothing to learn aside from the fact that they suck hard.
The first thing I did was to restore the Taskbar from Windows 10 by using the UndockingDisabled registry hack and apply all the necessary changes to get it as close as possible to how it used to be: install and configure Open-Shell, reinstate my Taskbar Toolbars, re-enable the System icons, hide the Search and Task View, make the clock on taskbar show seconds, change the (classic) taskbar icons size to small to make the taskbar height smaller. Then finally, I saw this post:
Suggestions for new workflow without QuickLaunch & Toolbars?
I'm still on Win10, and my desktop PC is compatible with 11, but without the QuickLaunch and Toolbars I'm not planning on upgrading. ...that is, unless I can figure out how to maintain a similar efficient workflow without those features. If anyone has any suggestions, I'm open to ideas. I...
Been using ExplorerPatcher trouble-free for 2 days now (in concert with Open-Shell). As for it potentially affecting future changes/fixes, see Valinet's response here:
My take on it is I see no reason to be worried, as it's easy enough to remove the dxgi.dll file from C:\Windows again and reboot after. No system files are being overwritten, so I don't believe it can hurt, and, the worst that could happen is that after a future update Windows ditches the code needed to restore the classic taskbar thereby effectively forcing us (as in, "we, the people who don't like to use GUI components with the usability level of a boulder"...) to go look for some kind of alternative solution.
Settings | Time & Language | Language & region | Administrative language settings | Administrative | Change system locale | Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support
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'RoundedTB', just downloaded it and like it. Thanks.
I was only trying to point out why your remark of "for me, that totally undermines the process of learning about Win 11 and understanding its design/functionality; and it also potentially affects the testing of any future changes/fixes that will inevitably be introduced as Win 11 matures" doesn't really make much sense at all, at least to me. Also, I can't for the life of me see how the simple removal of basic functionalities that can optionally be used to help to improve productivity (the ability to drag and drop files onto pinned apps, taskbar toolbars and a taskbar clock that gives the option to show seconds on all display devices in a multimonitor setup, etc.,...) meets your description of "their focus is primariliy on promoting take up" when, clearly, in that regard their focus was primarily on being as typifyingly annoying as they possibly could have been.
