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Maybe someone else has already found this, but try to drag a window to the side of the screen and see what happens ;)

Anyone remember the "AnimationsShiftKey"? It also works in 6801, if you enable this old tweak, hold the shift key and do the above, looks very awesome :D

Maybe someone else has already found this, but try to drag a window to the side of the screen and see what happens ;)

Anyone remember the "AnimationsShiftKey"? It also works in 6801, if you enable this old tweak, hold the shift key and do the above, looks very awesome :D

This was announced and videod at PDC, Brandon Live also mentioned you can do it by the following combinations. Winkey + Right/left/Up/Down arrow. Pretty cool that way too :)

Ok guys it doesn't seem to be working for me, or I might be doing something wrong? I'm doing it from the C:\Windows directory and I'm putting my Windows account username instead of "User" my username does NOT have spaces either, so I m not using the " and " but this is what I'm getting:

C:\Windows>cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G %User%:F

No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.

Then when I do: start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe the program just crashes and nothing happens, Any ideas?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Where you have %User% can you try writing out your username instead? Like

C:\Windows>cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G "Ely's PC":F

or simply

C:\Windows>cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G Ely:F

Where you have %User% can you try writing out your username instead? Like

C:\Windows>cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G "Ely's PC":F

or simply

C:\Windows>cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G Ely:F

You are the man! thanks a lot, cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G Ely:F actually worked! I appreciate your help buddy.

Hi, I'm trying to unlock the superbar. i follow all of the directions. i used C:\Windows and i used the user name Benjamin, like i'm supposed to but the unlock program just crashes, any ideas?

this is what i put in to the admin command prompt:

takeown /f C:\Windows\explorer.exe

cacls C:\Windows\explorer.exe/E/G Benjamin:F

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f

cd C:/Windows

start unlockprotectedfeatures.exe

thanks

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Hi, I'm trying to unlock the superbar. i follow all of the directions. i used C:\Windows and i used the user name Benjamin, like i'm supposed to but the unlock program just crashes, any ideas?

this is what i put in to the admin command prompt:

takeown /f C:\Windows\explorer.exe

cacls C:\Windows\explorer.exe/E/G Benjamin:F

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f

cd C:/Windows

start unlockprotectedfeatures.exe

thanks

Did you unblock the unlockprotectedfeatures.exe file you downloaded by going to its properties?

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