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to be honest with you i'm really starting to hate windows as a platform, i have been serously thinking of moving to Linux because of the major issues with Microsoft products that i have been plagued with for the last decade straight, and this is with their free versions of windows they are the most buggy trash i have ever had to use.
Agreed. Powertoys, and ExplorerPatcher really make Windows good enough. If only Microsoft Edge webview2 runtime wasn't using so much power in the background. I like my CPU temperature low when I'm not doing anything.
Thank you for sharing this! A majority of my family had too much of a learning curve when switching to Windows 11, so having this to fall back on for the time being has helped them.
I derped out one night and said "OK" to the free update to 11. This has just solved every damn issue I've had with getting to where I need to be. Mein Gott.
Setting the Start Menu display mode to Start Menu made hitting the Windows key so much more responsive and snappy as it should be. Whereas before, there would be several seconds between hitting the key and the Start menu opening
Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!! My number one reason I hated Windows 11 was the inability to expand the Taskbar and this install solved it. On windows 10 I could have 100 icons on the Taskbar and you can expand the task bar and see them all at once. Now I can do the same with Windows 11. Thank You.
I'm very glad to see a ton of windows 7 options (I think that was the peak of their UI design), the fact that everything on windows 11 seems to just be a convoluted method of opening those windows has been a big pain in the butt. I used the discount code to activate my windows, by the way! Had no idea you could get the single use OEM keys for cheap.
I still think StartAllBack is the way to go. It does these and much more, including theming old modals and panels with a modern dark mode and better animations. Yes it's paid, but it's one time fee. Also ExplorerPatcher requires constant updates due to its nature and broke on me several times.
Not a Windows user, but I don't mind to pay for software. I mean the developer put a lot of his time into making it, so it's fair to pay him or her. That's why I donate regularly to Linux.
Startisback* is indeed a payed software and easy to use... same as openshell (which was ClassicShell before) and both were payed too and both exist since windows 8... OpenShell is the ClassicShell and opensource version (i think) Startisback is not... Both do the job well i think and i still think OpenShell is pretty good ... Im using Startisback just for the lolz to see how it is... the free version which has a smily face... but anyay since 3 months now and its okay ... But probably ExplorerPatcher is even better to be honest! i don't know ... seemed so
I was about to comment this. Yeah I appreciate ExplorerPatcher being free and open source but StartAllBack does all of it just better enough for me to actually buy it.
Windows 7: no, show me the ACTUAL documments folder not the libraries Windows 8: no, show me the ACTUAL desktop not the start screen Windows 10: no, show me the ACTUAL control panel not the settings app Windows 11: no, show me the ACTUAL context menu not the soyboy menu Windows 12: no, show me the ACTUAL files on my physical drive not the forced cloud storage Windows 13: no, show me the ACTUAL OS of the PC I've rented the license to, not the remote vm that streams to the peripherals I have at home
Just found you, very entertaining and interesting/informative and a great sense of humor and pleasing voice to listen to! Subscribed! Greeting from Austria
I been using Windows Tweaker forever. I used to use Open Shell, I think I'll use it on my Windows 11 PC's, the Win 11 Start Menu is nearly useless compared to the Win 19 Start Menu. Explorer Patcher is going to be added now! Thanks. EDIT: I meant Win 10 Start Menu, not Win 19!
OMG THANK YOU! I like Windows 11 but the context menu and the clock are 2 things I absolutely LOATHED about the system and that fixes it right up, thanks!
I actually preferred the Windows Vista file Explorer to Windows 7's. The bottom preview pane and original introduction of Libraries was honestly really good on Vista. Windows 7 backpedaled on libraries a bit, (they're still usable even on 11, but you need to enable and configure it), and 7 moved some stuff around from Vista. While 7's taskbar was better than Vista, Vista's explorer was just fantastic. If only these guys could implement some "Windows 6" features. ;x
I used Windows vista a lot because of the looks and windows xp just for the performance when i really needed... And when i switched to windows 7 it felt so great! but had lack of somethings that vista had BUT you could enable them ... they were hidden (─‿‿─)
This looks pretty cool, I might end up giving it a try. I ran into this scenario a few weeks ago where I had finally gotten used to daily driving Linux, so switching back to Windows was odd. I used to consider the Windows File Explorer to be really good, but now having tried others, I take back that statement. I ended up finding out that KDE Dolphin is available for Windows, so I just installed that and use it instead since that is my new preferred file explorer.
The thing that I seriously hate about using Explorerpatcher is that sometimes you get hit with a really bad update and your entire screen is black and explorer.exe never shows up. So frustrating to deal with. Gotta uninstall EP or the update and just troubleshooting it was a pain in general. I'm just gonna stick with auto hiding my taskbar. That was basically my problem so far with W11 since I couldn't have small taskbar.
I cover that at the end of the video. I have it on 5 PCs and it's happened once. It's a very quick fix. Just press ctrl shift esc to bring up the task manager. Run new task. Type "explorer" ... that's it! If that doesn't work, do the same thing but type "control" into the run new task field. That opens control panel where you can uninstall ExplorerPatcher, then start explorer... then go download and update ExplorerPatcher.
@@torguy5763You're watching a video for tools that makes the Windows experience much better and you can't even "Ctrl+Shift+ESC and type 'explorer' " ?! Well good luck finding something else lol
Wouldn't it be nice if the ExplorerPatcher had a button for setting all configuration switches to the "Windows 10" style setting? So anyone upgrading from Win 10 to 11 would instantly get a desktop that looks as much as the old one as possible, without having to change dozens of settings manually.
I was seriously thinking about using something like this since I just built a new PC using a 14 gen CPU. I would have stayed on win 10 but that damn scheduler forced my hand. Now like you said and it's something I thought about, if there's a win update and it breaks something I really don't want to spend the time fixing things. I'm a set it and forget it kind of ass hat. As I was setting up win 11 I really didn't get lost. Yeah, it's a different way of going about things and typing all the crap out to find what you're looking for is annoying but once I learn it, I think I'll be ok. But after watching these tutorials it is tempting to revert back to the better times lol.
Thank you for this! I haven't upgraded to Windows 11 because of many of the features from 10 that don't exist on 11 anymore, but now I see that I can add them all back with explorer patcher! I'll probably upgrade to 11 now and finally be able to use Arc Browser.
I felt the pain u conveyed in ur convo lol. Ure awesome. So thnkful for ppl like u to help others navigate thru the hellish, necessary evil, Orwellian landscape of the Windows Matrix sublevel landscape. We will survive somehow
I was loosing my mind over the contextual menu thing. What a blunder of a change by Microsoft. It added an extra unnecessary step to so many things and went against the grain of decades of built up muscle memory. I'm so glad I finally found a way to disable it. I haven't been this annoyed with windows since they tried to get rid of the start menu.
I used to be a windows user for decades, but switched to MacOS a year ago. I was that guy customizing his desktop with rainmeter, customizing windows with PowerToys, that guy in insider program while I had no interest into that, just to experiment things quicker. I'm happier on MacOS, I feel really productive and less focused on making things more practical. I don't spend time anymore on customizing my computer, I miss that a lot but I'm really more productive. I don't have access to the majority of the games available on windows, but everything is smooth, snappy and stable. I'm really happy to see what Windows becomes since Windows 11, even though I'm not on the boat anymore. I'm a developer, I wish I could dualboot windows on my mac, Windows never felt that "MacOS-ish" than right now.
This was an easy save to favoruites for when I inevitably have the fuck around with windows 11 in future. Right now I have a new build functioning perfectly on 10 and long may it perform so. Great vid.
Windows 11 has had the [Show Taskbar Labels ___] for some time now. I'd much rather prefer the one icon to rule them all versus the Vista "show 12 outlook icons in every place where icons can show" method Different strokes for different folks.
I swear Google is reading my mind. Literally thinking about this channel and Logan like yesterday and a video pops up in my feed out of nowhere today. I haven't been recommended a Tek Syndicate vid in forever.
Heartful thanks for you. I was really annoyed by the windows 11 design and want to switch to windows 10. But your guide helped me to stay on win 11 with help of these settings.
That is impossible due to the monolithic design of Windows, and Windows becomes increasingly difficult to customize with each major release, to the point that you can practically no longer customize almost anything by default, being the same as macOS in that aspect, long gone are the days of wild theming on WinXP and earlier.
So weird. I used to watch your videos all the time, this is the first one I've seen in ages... Kinda forgot you existed but I immediately recognized you.
I've used explorer patcher for a few years but had to stop using is because when it crashes it deletes all of my application shortcuts from the taskbar. In the words of Worf when Locutus asked, "Why do you resist the Borg? We only wish to raise quality of life." Worf: 'I like my species the way it is."
I also recommend setting user account control “flat bottom” and using Windows Defender Remover to do away with Windows' care taking but power surrendering crap. Thanks for making this video and providing this information.
I like how when you have System settings by itself, as you have it set, the Windows edition still says Windows 10 on the right but Windows 11 Pro on the left lol.
I gave up and switched to Linux and I've been happy ever since. The problem with these "tweaks" is system stability, where a Windows update will render the patch useless and worse, crash Explorer.
True, but the same goes to Linux. When a system update comes & breaks something, you either fix it yourself or wait for someone to fix it on the internet. This is especially the case in rolling release distros. I love them 🐧 🐧 tho.
@@teksyndicate tbf, at that point you are battling a system that you paid for that doesn't want you to customize it. Windows patches will fade out whenever windows forces you to update to the latest thing. I also switched to linux because I refused to go through with windows 11, and I'm doing absolutely everything I did on windows with my computer (and more) but free of charge and with A LOT more customization right out of the box. It's just a better user experience these days.
Excellent app. I remember first buying it when it was start 8. It perfectly returned the 7 style start menu to win 8 and allowed you to boot straight to windows desktop rather than the full screen nonsense that win 8 forced you to boot to in the early releases.
Good video. Nice to see we can get the Windows 10 Ribbon interface in windows 11 Explorer. This worked heretofore with a previous version of Patcher on previous builds of Windows 11, then stopped. Nice to see the Patcher scripters have been able to reinstate this untill MS muck it all up again...
I like the start menu in the middle to avoid burn-in. As the number of icons grows and shrinks, they all change position. Less static position == less monitor burn in.
I found out about this a few months ago, *never been happier!!!* My main thing is my main monitor is my creator monitor. I don’t want the task bar on this monitor. I want it on the secondary, but vertical along the left side, and wide enough to show the full date. Like I have since Windows 2000 / XP / 7 / and 10.
One of the good recommended videos I've got. Windows has been killing me and now I find it to be much more usable. I personally prefer Linux, but not a single goddamn software that I use professionally is available or properly supported on Linux lol. Anyways thanks man!
Here's a good program: AltDrag No need to aim for the tiny bar at the top anymore, or the tiny edges to resize. Just hold alt, then use mb1 on anywhere in your window then drag it around, and then use mb2 anywhere on the window to resize it.
Man df. You literally saved me. I was searching for a way to restore windows 10 calendar because in windows 11 it doesn't even exist while you lose alla of your meetings. You did it i am goings to install this patcher.
It's funny how you say 'fix' for things that are 'not broken' just because they're different from before. I agree that there should be a settings page somewhere to easily change it back in Windows itself, but anyway... I tried the new things with Windows 11 over a year ago and found they're really not bad. I've been using my PC without any hassle since then, without any modifications. Well, that's not entirely true; I did put the Start menu where it belongs using the settings in Windows for that-no need to use third-party software. If Microsoft never changes anything in Windows, people say Windows is a sh#t OS, and they're moving to Linux or buying a Mac. Then when Microsoft makes a few changes, the same people say Windows is a sh#t OS, and they're moving to Linux or buying a Mac. Go figure. I guess people are hard to please. But nice video, easy to follow and you show what every change you making is doing in Windows.
Be aware, Explorer Patcher nags to update at least once a week, and will have unintended consequences if you put it on a VM... and it tends to also cause windows to crash ... ALOT. Although they may have fixed it since. You have been warned. I have resorted to a few strategic registery mods that do the same thing as EP without the hassle.
thank you. i have seen others who have purchased Win 11 computers and when i work on them i hate it! i can barely stand Win 10 but at least it had a updates i found to be useful. but so far i have not purchased a new Win 11 computer purely because i despise the OS revisions. nothing useful was added and all the controls i am used to or liked seeing in a condensed form have been spread out over multiple pages. i thought these bad updates would be gone once steve balmer left the company. so thanks for pointing out the'work arounds,' something any serious computer user will need.
Thanks for the video. I fixed all but one of my Windows 10/11 problems, I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, so far all games that have been installed work great, 2077 even gets more fps on Mint. The only problem to solve is modding Skyrim and Fallout NV using Heroic Games Launcher.
The trick there is that each thing installed in heroic has its own wine (proton) prefix(fake windows install), usually in a place like ~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/. You need to run the modding tools within the same prefix as the game. I think Heroic has an option in the game's advanced settings to run programs within its prefix. If not, you can run in specific prefixes from command line, but there's a reason I use protontricks to launch them for steam games. The other issue you might have is some mods might rely on dll injection. For instance, all the mods for Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun that fix the graphics so it'll run on modern hardware require overriding ddraw.dll. On windows, this is as simple as dropping it in the game folder, but with wine/proton, you have to tell it *not* to use the wine version of ddraw.dll, which is in the wine configuration for the prefix.
The most important thing is the win10 taskbar that can be put vertically - if you have 2 monitor setup it's just so convenient to have the tasbar on the side "between" your screens. They removed the ability to do this for no reason in win11
I was searching for a long time about a way to show the ribbon in file explorer like win10 style. I hated upgrading to win11 until I found this helpful software. Many thanks!
This is a really cool tool, and I'm glad it exists for those who want it. However, almost nothing in this video changed anything about Windows that changed it so fundamentally that it could be seen as "unusable" before. The normal System menu shows all the same information that the old one does for example, it's just preference. This is more about how older users of Windows want to go back to the old days. There's nothing wrong with that, and I guess in a way that's what "usable" means to some people. However, it sort of also implies that W11 or 10 are somehow fundamentally broken in some way that this fixes which isn't really the case here. It's an interesting piece of software nonetheless.
Many thankjs for this! Explorer Patcher and OpenShell make Windows 11 usable. Of course, 24H2 may break this because Microsoft doesn't want their users to customize Windows 11 to use features of Windows 7-10 on 11. :-P
As an I.T. specialist who works with clients getting new computers rolled out to them, this will be very useful. By default, most people who get Windows 11 experience slowness, glitches, and crashes. Especially with Adobe, and File explorer. No joke. I setup a machine with 2 high end GPU's, i9, 64 GB of RAM and it came with Windows 11 on it. I could not believe this guy was complaining about sluggish response times when searching for files. I hopped on his machine, and instantly became frustrated as his file explorer would become non responsive. Even after increasing System Virtual memory, running sfc, clearing caches and temp files, and DISM; the machine still was struggling to perform. I eventually took the machine, and reinstalled Windows 10 instead. Machine never had an issue again.
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Love this software, but I don't use it anymore, often when Windows Updates has been installed the software will make Explorer.exe to keep on crashing on you and other weird bugs, and the only way to fix it, from what I have found, is to rename the setup file to ep_uninstall.exe and then you have to wait for an updated version of ExplorerPatcher and reinstall that. Too much hassle when it fails.
Did they bring over pieces of Windows 10, or did they have to recode stuff from scratch, or are some of these features still there and hidden in Windows 11, but locked away?
I've just about had it with Windows, I will be looking hard at Linux. Windows voided a pc I have activation because I upgraded the ram. I get a "PC's hardware has changed message." I can't do anything about it unless I create a user account & sign in. I don't want to. No more with the "I pay you money and you still track/data mine me endlessly" model.
@@mopeyblokeMint is great for beginners, but it's running some older stuff for the sake of ease of use and stability. It's usually not a problem, unless you wanna do stuff like use two monitors with different refresh rates or use g-sync / freesync. If Mint handled all of that well it'd be an unambiguous recommendation, but it looks like it will take until 2025 at the earliest for it to get there. If you're a bit of a power user who's not afraid of the command line and are willing to read instructions and / or talk to people to get help, you might consider Nobara Linux instead. Comes with a lot of patches to make gaming and peripherals work well right off the bat, and is run by effectively *the* guy who's at the forefront of making games run well on Linux.
If all you want is the context menu changed, there's a Registry tweak for that. Also, they don't have a Windows 7 style for the Start Menu. That was that last version of Windows that had a good Start Menu design.
I prefer to avoid registry tweaks when possible... they are more difficult to fix after updates than this is. As for the start menu... we always have openshell to give us that Windows 7 style still.
please release a review of all popular programs that help change Windows 11 and compare them (Sophia-Script-for-Windows/SophiApp; hellzerg optimizer etc).And not only visually changing the appearance but also programs that effectively disable spying telemetry, as effective as a firewall. And what to do if a very smart Windows Defender is so smart that it deletes files that are saved
4 months later, here i am. right clicking taskbar, and hitting properties brings up a window that freezes and crashes out. patcher is still working sure. but i can NOT get it to open properties anymore. which is bad. since uninstalling, then reinstalling didnt solve the issue nor did a beta release work. any suggestions? virus software has not removed any files since the last time it did i added it back, and told it not to again lol.
The only really bad thing Microsoft did with Windows 11 was the hiding of third party software in the right click menu. Especially for things I love to use like 7-zip. May they reconsider the harm they have done to the user in Win12?
@@Yaqins 😂 I didn't know Microsoft had a long game plan for it. It sure wasn't that apparent to me at least. So much double, trippel stuff in Microsoft. I hope they never kill the desktop focus. But sometimes I wonder about the Windows future
@@grilsegrils9330 their direction most of the time are questionable. Like how they tried to turn Windows into mobile-focused OS with win8 to try to compete with Android. But the new context menu is good. It's more simple and modernized.
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to be honest with you i'm really starting to hate windows as a platform, i have been serously thinking of moving to Linux because of the major issues with Microsoft products that i have been plagued with for the last decade straight, and this is with their free versions of windows they are the most buggy trash i have ever had to use.
@@5226-p1e Hey do you have discord? I can help u out genuinely
Hi, have you any idea how to get rid of the scrolling by themselves folders in left panel bug?
After that I'll be thinking of buying.
@@electrocat9 Dont buy it
@@electrocat9 Do you have discord?
Agreed. Powertoys, and ExplorerPatcher really make Windows good enough.
If only Microsoft Edge webview2 runtime wasn't using so much power in the background. I like my CPU temperature low when I'm not doing anything.
What’s powertoys?
@riffdex google it 😂
they did supposedly integrate AI into Edge. Wouldn't be surprised if that was killing your CPU/running it hot
@@riffdexsome microsoft app that adds features that should be there by default, but are ridiculously slow.
why?
I never knew the Undertaker made tech videos
Dead Tech Man !
And he even advertises scam Windows keys like the Underta....oh wait..
This is why I hate modern Windows. Its literally schizophrenic in its design, nothing feels consistent and its horrible
Not enough has changed about desktop operating systems since 2001
Windows 11 is really bad for it though, the only thing that evoles is the how much more schizophrenic the design gets.
@@cynical8330 Have you used Linux?!
Agreed. Windows 2000 was peak Windows IMO.
@@bunnybreakerI thought Win2K was pretty meh, when it started to look like NT.. I prefer Win98se
Thank you for sharing this! A majority of my family had too much of a learning curve when switching to Windows 11, so having this to fall back on for the time being has helped them.
I derped out one night and said "OK" to the free update to 11. This has just solved every damn issue I've had with getting to where I need to be. Mein Gott.
i have not heard that word in years
@@faaridfarooq "derp", damn we back in 2015
@@zlikezearlier.. try 20 years ago
Setting the Start Menu display mode to Start Menu made hitting the Windows key so much more responsive and snappy as it should be. Whereas before, there would be several seconds between hitting the key and the Start menu opening
Unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!! My number one reason I hated Windows 11 was the inability to expand the Taskbar and this install solved it.
On windows 10 I could have 100 icons on the Taskbar and you can expand the task bar and see them all at once. Now I can do the same with Windows 11. Thank You.
I'm very glad to see a ton of windows 7 options (I think that was the peak of their UI design), the fact that everything on windows 11 seems to just be a convoluted method of opening those windows has been a big pain in the butt.
I used the discount code to activate my windows, by the way! Had no idea you could get the single use OEM keys for cheap.
I still think StartAllBack is the way to go. It does these and much more, including theming old modals and panels with a modern dark mode and better animations.
Yes it's paid, but it's one time fee. Also ExplorerPatcher requires constant updates due to its nature and broke on me several times.
Not a Windows user, but I don't mind to pay for software. I mean the developer put a lot of his time into making it, so it's fair to pay him or her. That's why I donate regularly to Linux.
I don't remember what it was, but I found it lacking... and prefer openshell.
I don't have to update it very often. And it thankfully hardly ever breaks lately.
Startisback* is indeed a payed software and easy to use... same as openshell (which was ClassicShell before) and both were payed too and both exist since windows 8... OpenShell is the ClassicShell and opensource version (i think) Startisback is not... Both do the job well i think and i still think OpenShell is pretty good ... Im using Startisback just for the lolz to see how it is... the free version which has a smily face... but anyay since 3 months now and its okay ...
But probably ExplorerPatcher is even better to be honest! i don't know ... seemed so
I was about to comment this. Yeah I appreciate ExplorerPatcher being free and open source but StartAllBack does all of it just better enough for me to actually buy it.
Windows 7: no, show me the ACTUAL documments folder not the libraries
Windows 8: no, show me the ACTUAL desktop not the start screen
Windows 10: no, show me the ACTUAL control panel not the settings app
Windows 11: no, show me the ACTUAL context menu not the soyboy menu
Windows 12: no, show me the ACTUAL files on my physical drive not the forced cloud storage
Windows 13: no, show me the ACTUAL OS of the PC I've rented the license to, not the remote vm that streams to the peripherals I have at home
The fact that this fixes the taskbar sound button alone from CONSTANTLY breaking or freezing up on me is a godsend! Thank you!
Never fail to learn something useful whenever you upload Logan. Cheers
Just found you, very entertaining and interesting/informative and a great sense of humor and pleasing voice to listen to! Subscribed! Greeting from Austria
I been using Windows Tweaker forever. I used to use Open Shell, I think I'll use it on my Windows 11 PC's, the Win 11 Start Menu is nearly useless compared to the Win 19 Start Menu. Explorer Patcher is going to be added now! Thanks.
EDIT: I meant Win 10 Start Menu, not Win 19!
OMG THANK YOU! I like Windows 11 but the context menu and the clock are 2 things I absolutely LOATHED about the system and that fixes it right up, thanks!
I actually preferred the Windows Vista file Explorer to Windows 7's. The bottom preview pane and original introduction of Libraries was honestly really good on Vista.
Windows 7 backpedaled on libraries a bit, (they're still usable even on 11, but you need to enable and configure it), and 7 moved some stuff around from Vista.
While 7's taskbar was better than Vista, Vista's explorer was just fantastic.
If only these guys could implement some "Windows 6" features. ;x
Vista was so similar to 7... I think people would have loved it if computers had more ram back then.
yeah MS was just jumped the gun to quickly for it lol. Same problem Windows 8 & 8.1.
Vista was great after the second service pack was installed, followed by relaxing some of the settings.
I used Windows vista a lot because of the looks and windows xp just for the performance when i really needed... And when i switched to windows 7 it felt so great! but had lack of somethings that vista had BUT you could enable them ... they were hidden (─‿‿─)
About to install this on my machines. Tired of the nonsense. Thank you for the excellent video!
This looks pretty cool, I might end up giving it a try. I ran into this scenario a few weeks ago where I had finally gotten used to daily driving Linux, so switching back to Windows was odd. I used to consider the Windows File Explorer to be really good, but now having tried others, I take back that statement. I ended up finding out that KDE Dolphin is available for Windows, so I just installed that and use it instead since that is my new preferred file explorer.
really ? there is a windows version of dolphin fm ? i almost 13 years if using kde i just find it out
, nice info.
@@radvilardian740 Yeah, I just googled "Dolphin for Windows" hoping for the best, and I was not disappointed lol
The thing that I seriously hate about using Explorerpatcher is that sometimes you get hit with a really bad update and your entire screen is black and explorer.exe never shows up. So frustrating to deal with. Gotta uninstall EP or the update and just troubleshooting it was a pain in general. I'm just gonna stick with auto hiding my taskbar. That was basically my problem so far with W11 since I couldn't have small taskbar.
I cover that at the end of the video. I have it on 5 PCs and it's happened once. It's a very quick fix. Just press ctrl shift esc to bring up the task manager. Run new task. Type "explorer" ... that's it! If that doesn't work, do the same thing but type "control" into the run new task field. That opens control panel where you can uninstall ExplorerPatcher, then start explorer... then go download and update ExplorerPatcher.
@@teksyndicate Too much hassle, not worth it.
i never had an issue with startallback, more features too i think
This is why I don't use apps like this. WindowBlinds was the same way...
@@torguy5763You're watching a video for tools that makes the Windows experience much better and you can't even "Ctrl+Shift+ESC and type 'explorer' " ?! Well good luck finding something else lol
Been a while since I saw this channel. Some glorious hair you got there man
Wouldn't it be nice if the ExplorerPatcher had a button for setting all configuration switches to the "Windows 10" style setting? So anyone upgrading from Win 10 to 11 would instantly get a desktop that looks as much as the old one as possible, without having to change dozens of settings manually.
I was seriously thinking about using something like this since I just built a new PC using a 14 gen CPU. I would have stayed on win 10 but that damn scheduler forced my hand. Now like you said and it's something I thought about, if there's a win update and it breaks something I really don't want to spend the time fixing things. I'm a set it and forget it kind of ass hat. As I was setting up win 11 I really didn't get lost. Yeah, it's a different way of going about things and typing all the crap out to find what you're looking for is annoying but once I learn it, I think I'll be ok. But after watching these tutorials it is tempting to revert back to the better times lol.
Thank you for sharing, I have really been wanting something like this!
Thank you for this! I haven't upgraded to Windows 11 because of many of the features from 10 that don't exist on 11 anymore, but now I see that I can add them all back with explorer patcher! I'll probably upgrade to 11 now and finally be able to use Arc Browser.
I felt the pain u conveyed in ur convo lol. Ure awesome. So thnkful for ppl like u to help others navigate thru the hellish, necessary evil, Orwellian landscape of the Windows Matrix sublevel landscape. We will survive somehow
I was loosing my mind over the contextual menu thing. What a blunder of a change by Microsoft. It added an extra unnecessary step to so many things and went against the grain of decades of built up muscle memory. I'm so glad I finally found a way to disable it. I haven't been this annoyed with windows since they tried to get rid of the start menu.
I've been dragged kicking and screaming into Windows two-digits, thanks for making the change easier on my retro infused brain.
thanks dude :)
haven't seen you streaming on twitch for ages, it would be awesome to see more of the world you were creating
I think I have to quit this if I want to dedicate my time to that... and I'm going to soon.
@@teksyndicate don't burn any bridges eh, good luck whichever route it ends up being though :)
I make my Windows 10 look and act like Windows 7, and this just added icing on the cake. Thanks dude.
I used to be a windows user for decades, but switched to MacOS a year ago. I was that guy customizing his desktop with rainmeter, customizing windows with PowerToys, that guy in insider program while I had no interest into that, just to experiment things quicker.
I'm happier on MacOS, I feel really productive and less focused on making things more practical. I don't spend time anymore on customizing my computer, I miss that a lot but I'm really more productive. I don't have access to the majority of the games available on windows, but everything is smooth, snappy and stable.
I'm really happy to see what Windows becomes since Windows 11, even though I'm not on the boat anymore. I'm a developer, I wish I could dualboot windows on my mac, Windows never felt that "MacOS-ish" than right now.
This was an easy save to favoruites for when I inevitably have the fuck around with windows 11 in future. Right now I have a new build functioning perfectly on 10 and long may it perform so. Great vid.
Thanks going to install this on my laptop asap. Pretty happy with my custom Win 10 install on my desktop in the meantime.
Windows 7 was the best windows ever. Simple, clean, user friendly and still a lot of feature.
I like the cut of you jib. Well done.
Microsoft is going to start bricking PCs with ExplorerPatcher installed with 24H2, I hate Microsoft
really?
Yes, really? It would not surprise me. I hate Micro$oft too.
Micromoneysoft🥰@@whitewolf6730
THANK YOU, no seriously thank you. I have been looking for something like this for a while.
OMG dude, thank you so much. Ive been trying to get rid of the merging tasks crap since my work laptop got updated to w11.
Windows 11 has had the [Show Taskbar Labels ___] for some time now.
I'd much rather prefer the one icon to rule them all versus the Vista "show 12 outlook icons in every place where icons can show" method
Different strokes for different folks.
Winaero Tweaker has a TON more options but, there's a couple things in ExplorerPatcher it doesn't have, mainly for Windows 11. It's ok to use both. 👍
Video starts at 2:20
I swear Google is reading my mind. Literally thinking about this channel and Logan like yesterday and a video pops up in my feed out of nowhere today. I haven't been recommended a Tek Syndicate vid in forever.
Awesome, Happy New Year Logan. Thanks for the revisit tips.
Heartful thanks for you. I was really annoyed by the windows 11 design and want to switch to windows 10. But your guide helped me to stay on win 11 with help of these settings.
This is great! We NEED more customization programs like this. Make Windows more like LINUX!!!
That is impossible due to the monolithic design of Windows, and Windows becomes increasingly difficult to customize with each major release, to the point that you can practically no longer customize almost anything by default, being the same as macOS in that aspect, long gone are the days of wild theming on WinXP and earlier.
That's what I'm talking about. Awesome video man, makes for some old school control over the venereal disease that keeps being put onto me.
You forgot the best feature...now my calendar finally pops out!!! Thanks for sharing
I actually recognized you from your OpenMW video that I watched last year. Was glad to know you are still making videos.
13:12 "This is the underbelly of the computer. This is where I need to be, as a power user. I don't need to mess around, with those bubbly apps".
thank u so much, i would never know about ExplorerPatcher except for this video
So weird. I used to watch your videos all the time, this is the first one I've seen in ages... Kinda forgot you existed but I immediately recognized you.
Same here. I guess the algorithm stopped recommending videos even though I've been subbed for years. It's good to see this channel again though.
I've used explorer patcher for a few years but had to stop using is because when it crashes it deletes all of my application shortcuts from the taskbar. In the words of Worf when Locutus asked, "Why do you resist the Borg? We only wish to raise quality of life." Worf: 'I like my species the way it is."
This video is filled with gems.
EPIC VIDEO. THIS MADE MY WINDOWS 11 MORE USABLE NOW. ESPECIALLY WITH USING THE LIBRARY PROGGRAM. THANK YOU SOO MUCH MAN
Microsoft will remove it soon.
I also recommend setting user account control “flat bottom” and using Windows Defender Remover to do away with Windows' care taking but power surrendering crap.
Thanks for making this video and providing this information.
I like how when you have System settings by itself, as you have it set, the Windows edition still says Windows 10 on the right but Windows 11 Pro on the left lol.
I gave up and switched to Linux and I've been happy ever since. The problem with these "tweaks" is system stability, where a Windows update will render the patch useless and worse, crash Explorer.
so... that takes 2 minutes to fix.
True, but the same goes to Linux. When a system update comes & breaks something, you either fix it yourself or wait for someone to fix it on the internet. This is especially the case in rolling release distros. I love them 🐧 🐧 tho.
@@teksyndicate tbf, at that point you are battling a system that you paid for that doesn't want you to customize it. Windows patches will fade out whenever windows forces you to update to the latest thing.
I also switched to linux because I refused to go through with windows 11, and I'm doing absolutely everything I did on windows with my computer (and more) but free of charge and with A LOT more customization right out of the box.
It's just a better user experience these days.
I use a program called Start 11 which modifies the Start button and Taskbar. Would this program conflict with that?
i use both seen no issues
@@jasonhillonecool thanks
Excellent app. I remember first buying it when it was start 8. It perfectly returned the 7 style start menu to win 8 and allowed you to boot straight to windows desktop rather than the full screen nonsense that win 8 forced you to boot to in the early releases.
Now we need the same for task manager and device manager.
Good video. Nice to see we can get the Windows 10 Ribbon interface in windows 11 Explorer. This worked heretofore with a previous version of Patcher on previous builds of Windows 11, then stopped. Nice to see the Patcher scripters have been able to reinstate this untill MS muck it all up again...
I like the start menu in the middle to avoid burn-in. As the number of icons grows and shrinks, they all change position. Less static position == less monitor burn in.
You on a CRT or OLED? That is a good point
Excellant video. Much appreciated 👍👏
I found out about this a few months ago, *never been happier!!!*
My main thing is my main monitor is my creator monitor. I don’t want the task bar on this monitor. I want it on the secondary, but vertical along the left side, and wide enough to show the full date. Like I have since Windows 2000 / XP / 7 / and 10.
awesome vid. thank you sooo much. been looking for something like this. much appreciated
This is great! More github stuff plz!!!
One of the good recommended videos I've got. Windows has been killing me and now I find it to be much more usable. I personally prefer Linux, but not a single goddamn software that I use professionally is available or properly supported on Linux lol. Anyways thanks man!
Here's a good program: AltDrag
No need to aim for the tiny bar at the top anymore, or the tiny edges to resize. Just hold alt, then use mb1 on anywhere in your window then drag it around, and then use mb2 anywhere on the window to resize it.
Thanks so much, Bro!
Man df. You literally saved me. I was searching for a way to restore windows 10 calendar because in windows 11 it doesn't even exist while you lose alla of your meetings. You did it i am goings to install this patcher.
It's funny how you say 'fix' for things that are 'not broken' just because they're different from before. I agree that there should be a settings page somewhere to easily change it back in Windows itself, but anyway...
I tried the new things with Windows 11 over a year ago and found they're really not bad. I've been using my PC without any hassle since then, without any modifications. Well, that's not entirely true; I did put the Start menu where it belongs using the settings in Windows for that-no need to use third-party software.
If Microsoft never changes anything in Windows, people say Windows is a sh#t OS, and they're moving to Linux or buying a Mac. Then when Microsoft makes a few changes, the same people say Windows is a sh#t OS, and they're moving to Linux or buying a Mac. Go figure. I guess people are hard to please.
But nice video, easy to follow and you show what every change you making is doing in Windows.
TY so much. This is the last harbour for one who wants to get out of window's patronizing and infantalizing you (and still is using it).
Be aware, Explorer Patcher nags to update at least once a week, and will have unintended consequences if you put it on a VM... and it tends to also cause windows to crash ... ALOT. Although they may have fixed it since.
You have been warned.
I have resorted to a few strategic registery mods that do the same thing as EP without the hassle.
With this I'm considering upgrading finally. Thanks Tek Syndicate
thank you. i have seen others who have purchased Win 11 computers and when i work on them i hate it! i can barely stand Win 10 but at least it had a updates i found to be useful. but so far i have not purchased a new Win 11 computer purely because i despise the OS revisions. nothing useful was added and all the controls i am used to or liked seeing in a condensed form have been spread out over multiple pages. i thought these bad updates would be gone once steve balmer left the company. so thanks for pointing out the'work arounds,' something any serious computer user will need.
Thanks for the video.
I fixed all but one of my Windows 10/11 problems, I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon, so far all games that have been installed work great, 2077 even gets more fps on Mint.
The only problem to solve is modding Skyrim and Fallout NV using Heroic Games Launcher.
The trick there is that each thing installed in heroic has its own wine (proton) prefix(fake windows install), usually in a place like ~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/. You need to run the modding tools within the same prefix as the game. I think Heroic has an option in the game's advanced settings to run programs within its prefix. If not, you can run in specific prefixes from command line, but there's a reason I use protontricks to launch them for steam games.
The other issue you might have is some mods might rely on dll injection. For instance, all the mods for Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun that fix the graphics so it'll run on modern hardware require overriding ddraw.dll. On windows, this is as simple as dropping it in the game folder, but with wine/proton, you have to tell it *not* to use the wine version of ddraw.dll, which is in the wine configuration for the prefix.
Thanks for this video, was really needing it
yes i run this similar as your settings and Atlas . i only got back to windows 11 days ago when i noticed Atlas works with it . great so far .
The most important thing is the win10 taskbar that can be put vertically - if you have 2 monitor setup it's just so convenient to have the tasbar on the side "between" your screens. They removed the ability to do this for no reason in win11
I was searching for a long time about a way to show the ribbon in file explorer like win10 style. I hated upgrading to win11 until I found this helpful software. Many thanks!
This is a really cool tool, and I'm glad it exists for those who want it. However, almost nothing in this video changed anything about Windows that changed it so fundamentally that it could be seen as "unusable" before. The normal System menu shows all the same information that the old one does for example, it's just preference. This is more about how older users of Windows want to go back to the old days. There's nothing wrong with that, and I guess in a way that's what "usable" means to some people. However, it sort of also implies that W11 or 10 are somehow fundamentally broken in some way that this fixes which isn't really the case here. It's an interesting piece of software nonetheless.
stop this.
I have (almost) no issues with windows 11, got used to it after using it for a while.
But having options is a good thing, this is neat.
Many thankjs for this! Explorer Patcher and OpenShell make Windows 11 usable. Of course, 24H2 may break this because Microsoft doesn't want their users to customize Windows 11 to use features of Windows 7-10 on 11. :-P
Amazing video. Amazing tool. Definitely going to set this up when i get the time
As an I.T. specialist who works with clients getting new computers rolled out to them, this will be very useful. By default, most people who get Windows 11 experience slowness, glitches, and crashes. Especially with Adobe, and File explorer. No joke. I setup a machine with 2 high end GPU's, i9, 64 GB of RAM and it came with Windows 11 on it. I could not believe this guy was complaining about sluggish response times when searching for files. I hopped on his machine, and instantly became frustrated as his file explorer would become non responsive. Even after increasing System Virtual memory, running sfc, clearing caches and temp files, and DISM; the machine still was struggling to perform. I eventually took the machine, and reinstalled Windows 10 instead. Machine never had an issue again.
Thats crazy. That just shows how bad Microsoft had been terrible with their quality. Linux is looking better than ever it seems.
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Thanks for this. Gonna use this once I update to Windows 11.
"...it's as if Bob Ross were explaining to us how to use this tool." Thanks so much for the breakdown on this app!
'The Grandson of Bob' - 😜
Good stuff, its TweakUI for Win 11. :D
Love this software, but I don't use it anymore, often when Windows Updates has been installed the software will make Explorer.exe to keep on crashing on you and other weird bugs, and the only way to fix it, from what I have found, is to rename the setup file to ep_uninstall.exe and then you have to wait for an updated version of ExplorerPatcher and reinstall that.
Too much hassle when it fails.
Did they bring over pieces of Windows 10, or did they have to recode stuff from scratch, or are some of these features still there and hidden in Windows 11, but locked away?
I might consider adding a batch file on the desktop that launches explorer in case those crashes were too inconvenient.
I've just about had it with Windows, I will be looking hard at Linux. Windows voided a pc I have activation because I upgraded the ram. I get a "PC's hardware has changed message." I can't do anything about it unless I create a user account & sign in. I don't want to. No more with the "I pay you money and you still track/data mine me endlessly" model.
True. Hopefully I'll be trying out Linux Mint this year. A lot of people recommend that one for beginners.
@@mopeyblokeMint is great for beginners, but it's running some older stuff for the sake of ease of use and stability. It's usually not a problem, unless you wanna do stuff like use two monitors with different refresh rates or use g-sync / freesync. If Mint handled all of that well it'd be an unambiguous recommendation, but it looks like it will take until 2025 at the earliest for it to get there.
If you're a bit of a power user who's not afraid of the command line and are willing to read instructions and / or talk to people to get help, you might consider Nobara Linux instead. Comes with a lot of patches to make gaming and peripherals work well right off the bat, and is run by effectively *the* guy who's at the forefront of making games run well on Linux.
If all you want is the context menu changed, there's a Registry tweak for that. Also, they don't have a Windows 7 style for the Start Menu. That was that last version of Windows that had a good Start Menu design.
I prefer to avoid registry tweaks when possible... they are more difficult to fix after updates than this is. As for the start menu... we always have openshell to give us that Windows 7 style still.
You're the Bob Ross of computer tutorials
never been happier to get to know explorerpatcher, even though I still use win 10, it just fix some of my known problem on settings things
This will keep me from having to switch to Linux for a while. Thanx!
Does this eat resources or save them? This old laptop is so slow now.
please release a review of all popular programs that help change Windows 11 and compare them (Sophia-Script-for-Windows/SophiApp; hellzerg
optimizer etc).And not only visually changing the appearance but also programs that effectively disable spying telemetry, as effective as a firewall. And what to do if a very smart Windows Defender is so smart that it deletes files that are saved
4 months later, here i am. right clicking
taskbar, and hitting properties brings up a window that
freezes and crashes out. patcher is still working sure.
but i can NOT get it to open properties anymore.
which is bad. since uninstalling, then reinstalling didnt solve the issue
nor did a beta release work. any suggestions?
virus software has not removed any files since the last time it did
i added it back, and told it not to again lol.
The only really bad thing Microsoft did with Windows 11 was the hiding of third party software in the right click menu. Especially for things I love to use like 7-zip. May they reconsider the harm they have done to the user in Win12?
It's the fault of the 3rd party application that hasn't updated to fit win11 new context menu. I use WinRar and it shows up in the new context menu.
@@Yaqins 😂 I didn't know Microsoft had a long game plan for it. It sure wasn't that apparent to me at least. So much double, trippel stuff in Microsoft. I hope they never kill the desktop focus. But sometimes I wonder about the Windows future
@@grilsegrils9330 their direction most of the time are questionable. Like how they tried to turn Windows into mobile-focused OS with win8 to try to compete with Android. But the new context menu is good. It's more simple and modernized.
I use ExplorerPatcher myself and its probably the best addition to Windows, right next to debloating and making a custom debloated ISO.