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.
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Discover the program"s full range of features by reading this wiki article.
ExplorerPatcher 22621.2861.62.1 changelog:
Tested on OS builds 22621.2715, 22621.2861, 22631.2787, 22631.2861, 22635.2915, and 23590.1000.
- Taskbar10: Various important fixes: (ec68783)
- Revised the method for enabling the old taskbar due to a very rare issue where the old taskbar couldn"t be enabled with the previous method.
- Fixed crash on 25921+ due to the removal of pnidui.dll.
- Fixed potential stability issues when using the new taskbar on 22621.2787+.
- Taskbar10: Fixed white boxes on submenus when context menu skinning is disabled.
- File Explorer: Fixed crashes when using Windows 7/10 control interface on OS builds 22635.2915+.
- Localization: Added translations for French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Romanian, and Ukrainian.
- The properties window has been made slightly wider to accomodate the newly added languages.
- Localization: Added a language switcher to the About section of Properties window.
Note: Due to the breakages as well as frequent changes happening in Canary builds, we strongly do not recommend using ExplorerPatcher on Canary builds for now.
Please consult the README for more details.
A detailed change log is available here.
Download: ExplorerPatcher 22621.2861.62.1 | 2.0 MB (Open Source)
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