ExplorerPatcher (EP) is a fairly popular customization and tweaking app for Windows and it has received a new update today. The new release is a fairly significant one as it fixes issues related to several of the utility"s features that had stopped working on Windows 11 24H2. They had initially worked with the version, but somewhere down the line, due to underlying changes made in the OS, the features had stopped working.
If you are wondering, some of these features that are working again include the Simple Window Switcher (SWS), the option to "disable rounded corner", and more. Besides these, there are several other changes too. The author of EP has also made changes to the code such that the Windows 11 24H2 feature update should be downloadable and installable again for users who were not able to do so due to a safeguard block.
There is nothing specific related to upcoming Windows 11 version 25H2 though. The full changelog is given below:
- Start10: Fixed Pin to Start on 226x1.4541+ and 261xx.2454+. (#3984) (4ef3667, 123ea8b)
- sws: Added support for 24H2. (#3765)
- ep_dwm: Added support for 24H2. (#3555)
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ep_dwm.exehas been renamed toep_dwm_svc.exeto get around 24H2 upgrade blocks. (115b462) - ep_dwm: Now always unregistered on uninstallation, regardless of whether it was running during the uninstallation or not. (858b634)
- Setup: The failure message now displays the associated code line number that failed, to assist in troubleshooting. (c64a17e)
- Taskbar10: Fixed disabling immersive menus on ARM64. (8b4d8db)
- Taskbar10: Fixed Win+X menu still having Windows Terminal entries when Windows Terminal is not installed, that crashes Explorer when selected. (1b20cbd, 207f669)
- For now, if you want to have PowerShell entries, Windows Terminal must be uninstalled.
- Taskbar10: Fixed Win+X entry clicks doing nothing on 26xxx.5551+ ARM64.
- GUI: Added dropdown indicators to dropdown entries. (9f71a5c)
- GUI: The language names now include the country name. (3f11766)
- Localization: Added Czech translations. (Thanks @9hb, @andrewz1986, and @Panzimy!)
- Localization: Added Spanish (Spain) translations. (Thanks @AlejandroMartiGisbert!)
- ep_taskbar: Added support for "Show desktop button: Hidden" setting. (#4020) (1be6658)
- ep_taskbar: Fixed a bug that prevented shortcut global hotkeys from working on 24H2. (#3777, #4016)
- ep_taskbar: Fixed a bug that prevented the taskbar from resizing properly after DPI changes. (#3796)
- ep_taskbar: Added the following languages: German, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Spanish (Spain), Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese (Simplified).
- ep_taskbar: Fixed a number of memory leaks and code/behavior inaccuracies.
- ❗ ep_taskbar: Fixed incompatibility with 26200.5603 (Dev), 26120.4151 (Beta), and 26100.4188 (Release Preview). (#4321)
- ep_taskbar: Now supports all Windows 10 versions supported by EP (17763/1809+). (aec8c70, 1edb989)
You can download version 22631.5335.68.2 of the app from its official GitHub repo. Keep in mind that this is a pre-release version and hence you can skip it and wait for the stable version in case you do not need to urgently resolve any issues.