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ExplorerPatcher's taskbar implementation
ExplorerPatcher offers a custom implementation of the Windows 10 taskbar mostly based on the code present in Windows 11 22H2, making the system tray available for use in 25921+ (Windows 11 24H2) along with other perks.
- Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2 Release, Release Preview, and Beta (22621, 22631, 22635)
Windows 11 Dev (Pre-reboot 25115-25309 and post-reboot 23403+)-
Windows 11 24H2/Canary (25314+)Coming soon.
English (United States), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Russian, Spanish (Mexico)
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Please DO NOT use the reimplemented taskbar on WORK machines. Also DO NOT use on machines with mission-critical purposes.
- This is only intended for PERSONAL machines where program errors are tolerable. If you are using this on a non-PERSONAL machine, you are doing so at your own risk.
- We will NOT be responsible for any damages caused.
- Being a reimplementation, this does not cover all features of the original taskbar. Some missing features are:
- Languages other than those mentioned above
- Assigned Access
- Due to tight integration with
explorer.exe, a Windows update can break the reimplemented taskbar until a fix is released. - Some features may not work as expected or behave differently from the original taskbar. This can be due to human errors that might have happened during the process of reimplementing.
- Crashes can happen at any time, in any moment, and under any condition. Please be prepared for this.
- Other taskbar tweaking software other than the ones listed above are not guaranteed to work.
- In rare cases,
explorer.exemight run at a higher CPU usage than usual, therefore increasing device temperatures and shortening battery life. - If any of the problems become an annoyance, we suggest to immediately switch back to the default taskbar implementation until a fix is released.
If you encounter any issues especially behavioral differences from the original taskbar, Issue reports in here would be appreciated.
- When doing so, please let us know your Windows version in
winver(e.g. 22621.1992) and reproduction steps. - Please make sure that the issue does not happen with the original taskbar.
We thank you for your understanding.
We are sorry that our taskbar or ExplorerPatcher is malfunctioning on your Windows installation. To recover your system back to a working state, please follow these steps:
- Open Task Manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc
- Select "Run new task" at the top bar (on the new Task Manager) or "File" > "Run new task" (on the old Task Manager)
- Enter
explorer.exe - While holding Ctrl+Alt+Shift, press Enter
This will start explorer.exe without ExplorerPatcher doing its job, allowing you to take necessary actions such as reverting the Taskbar style to the default one or uninstalling ExplorerPatcher.
If possible, please report your issue with complete details (OS version, tweak software installed, etc.) in the Issues section and we will get back to you when we have the chance.
7+ Taskbar Tweaker taps directly into the memory and code of the Windows 10 taskbar that resides in explorer.exe, not in any other place. To get 7+ Taskbar Tweaker features to work on ExplorerPatcher's taskbar, the only way is for us to incorporate its code directly in ExplorerPatcher's taskbar code.
We have plans to do this, but for now we cannot give an ETA.
Due to legal reasons, unfortunately we cannot put the source code for ExplorerPatcher's taskbar implementation available for everyone to use.
Not at the moment, but we plan to release .pdb files without types for the taskbar DLLs in here.