ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70.1

ExplorerPatcher is a versatile and free tool that allows you to tweak and enhance the Windows Explorer. It comes with a range of useful features, including the ability to add new context menu items, change file name colors, and enable hidden features.

Feature summary

• Choose between Windows 11 or Windows 10 taskbar (with labels support, small icons and lots of customization).
• Disable Windows 11 context menu and command bar in File Explorer and more.
• Open Start to All apps by default, choose number of frequent apps to show, display on active monitor and more.
• Choose between the Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows NT Alt-Tab window switcher with customization.

Lots of quality of life improvements for the shell, like:

• Skin tray menus to match Windows style, make them behave like flyouts and center them relative to the icon.
• Choose action when left and/or right clicking the network icon.
• Revert to the Windows 7 search box in File Explorer, or disable Windows Search altogether.
• Disable immersive menus and use mitigations that help you run the real classic theme without glitches.

• Discover the program's full range of features by reading this wiki article.

ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70.1 Pre-release changelog:

Tested on OS builds 22621.4317, 22631.7079, 26100.6899, 26100.8037, 26200.8246, 26200.8457, 26300.8493, and 28000.2113.

TIP: Windows Defender no longer flags ExplorerPatcher. It is no longer needed to configure Defender exclusions. Enjoy!

Important: Fixed 10 taskbar and 10 Start menu crashing on 26220.8474 (Beta) and 26300.8493 (Experimental).

• Please update EP as soon as possible to ensure future updates run smoothly, otherwise explorer.exe will not run with EP's 10 taskbar and StartMenuExperienceHost.exe will not run when 10 Start menu is selected.
• Those builds have removed remnants of the 10 Start menu in StartTileData.dll. Consequently, the 10 Start menu option has been removed on those builds and future builds without the required stuff in the DLL. (bf36cde, 8a5b8ba)
• If you want it back, the temporary solution would be to manually swap C:\Windows\System32\StartTileData.dll with a version from 26xxx.8457 (x64; ARM64). But do not expect this to work for long.
• We are confident that this is not the end of the road yet for 10 Start menu. Stay tuned for updates.

Highlight: Fixed Windows 10 battery flyout crashing on 25951+. (659c2d0)

• As a side effect, the network flyout buttons had to be reverted to pre-24H2. Fixes #4691.
• Changes to "Primary taskbar location on screen" in EP properties now reflect immediately. (6c9b41d)
• Windows 11 taskbar autohide is no longer modified on Explorer boot. (e6becc9)
• "Open Start in All apps by default" is now hidden when the new 11 Start menu is enabled. (#4648) (d8f1d1c)
• Windows 10 Start menu on 21996-22000.51 now no longer crashes. (39ac219)
• Fixed regedit.exe crashing when switching to thumbnail view in the import/export registry file dialog. (#3940) (80be85d)
• Updated pattern matching code to support recent builds especially with 26H1 ARM64. (677fd9f, e641e0a, e77123a, 3c8e79f, 854770b, 04dd52b, ce22476, baf0fdb, b532116, c0adee2, eefa0bf, 420e112, 3be4f3f, 1bf0d81, 47d7481, 31d2c23, bdf95c3, fe8cc2b, 1be3c79)
• Improved efficiency on ARM64.
• Added Greek translations. Thanks @KonVetsos!

ep_taskbar:

• Now supports all 43 Windows 11 languages.
• Fixed reimplementation mistakes in system tray and some other places.
• [For mod developers] Changed ep_taskbar's DLL names from numbers to the codename of the first major release a single variant supports. (cc36e34)
• [For mod developers] TrayUI no longer inherits Microsoft::WRL::RuntimeClass; vtables are now stable on builds with multiple ITrayUI revisions like ep_taskbar.ge.dll (formerly ep_taskbar.5.dll). A detailed change log is available here.

Please consult the README for more details.

Download: ExplorerPatcher 26100.4946.69.6 | ARM64 | ~11.0 MB (Open Source)
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