22000.258.31.0 ----> 22000.282

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Discussed in #166

^{Originally posted by valinet October 21, 2021}
Tested on build: 22000.258.

New features

• Cortana button now opens the Widgets panel
• Ability to choose what happens when clicking the Network icon in the system tray
• Possibility to use the legacy clock flyout
• Possibility to use the legacy volume flyout
• Fixes to fully support the classic theme, with a functional taskbar, system tray, Explorer windows, working context menus; read more about this feature here

Feature enhancements

• Reorganized settings in the GUI
• Added option not to have an accelerator for the Properties menu entry in Win+X (Suggestion: Remove the access key for the entry in Win+X menu #162)

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the Windows 10 window switcher failed to display some windows (Missing application in Windows 10 window switcher #161)
• Fixed an issue that prevented Start from opening again until Explorer was restarted after opening File Explorer via the Start menu Explorer icon (Clicking File Explorer in Start makes it unavailable until explorer.exe is restarted #145)
• Fixed patching in libvalinet
• Fixed GUI launch path; GUI now launches in an external process, survives Explorer restarts

Experimental

The application can now be registered as a shell extension. This will enable the Explorer related functionality to work in Open/Save file dialogs as well. This is especially useful for users wanting proper support of the classic theme in Windows 11.

Please note that this is experimental. For the moment, the preferred installation method remains dropping the DLL in C:\Windows. For interested users, I invite you to test this functionality and report your findings in the discussions board.

To enable this, put the 2 DLLs (ExplorerPatcher.amd64.dll and ExplorerPatcher.IA-32.dll) in a secure folder (for example, C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher). Then, in that folder, run this command: regsvr32 ExplorerPatcher.amd64.dll. After elevation, a message will display informing you of the operation outcome, and if it went well, Explorer will restart displaying the old taskbar. This procedure failled with 22000.282 where as dxgi.dll into c:\windows still works

To uninstall, run regsvr32 /u ExplorerPatcher.amd64.dll in the same folder and preferably reboot the computer to unload the DLLs from all applications. Then, the files can be deleted just fine.

Please consult the README for more details.

A detailed change log is available here.

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This discussion was created from the release 22000.258.31.0.

[valinet]

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