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Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Mon, 3 Feb 2025 08:37:53 -0500, Newyana2
<newyana@invalid.nospam> wrote:

>On 2/3/2025 5:35 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Newyana2 wrote:
>> 
>>> First, install Exporer Patcher.
>>> https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases
>>>
>>> That seems to be a shell extension. It fixes the broken bits 
>> 
>> Do you really want to run a chimera of a taskbar/start menu stitched 
>> together from parts of Win11 and Win10?
>
>    Rather a strong opinion. :)
>
>    Shell extensions are not monstrosities. And it's not stitched together.
>The whole approach is designed by Microsoft as a way to customize
>and enhance Windows. I've been using EP, and it works. Microsoft's
>Win11 taskbar doesn't work properly. This fixes it. It fixes the problem
>of the bar not fitting the icons. It fixes the problem of Quick Launch
>not working. (QL provides a responsive, independent and closely packed
>set of shortcuts, separate from the "badges" on the taskbar. To my mind,
>integrating shortcut icons and badges is a confusing design flaw.)
>
>   It's a bit ironic that you'd call normal functionality a chimera.
>You think it's not a pasted-together monstrosity to have an irrelevant
>Search bar half-covering the taskbar, with a News and Interests
>icon that pops up a tabloid news window if you accidentally pass the
>mouse over it? To each their own. Granted, you can read about last
>night's Grammy's costumes without having to even open a browser.
>Maybe that's an improvement in your mind? Or, like Winston, do you
>just feel that Microsoft should be accepted as your master and that
>it's disrespectful to customize? For me, Windows is a tool. A platform
>to host software. Whatever works for me makes sense. (Don't tell
>anyone, but I also sometime alter recipes in cookbooks. I'm a wild
>and crazy guy.)
>
>   The Start Menu is similar. Microsoft presents a confusing mess
>of Metro/UWP advertising and complications where I expect
>to just see a list of program links. Open Shell fixes that.
>
>   I use these products because they work dependably and they improve
>Windows. Open Shell changes the Start Menu from a late night TV
>commercial on acid to what works: Links to programs I use and
>Control Panel.

I had planned to continue using Open Shell also.  Do you think I should
install that after the Explorer Patch changes, or before?

Do the peoople here who have give Newyana a hard time think I can
actually hurt myself with ExplorerPatch, or any o fthe other
suggestions? 
>
>   Open Shell doesn't copy a Win10 Start Menu. More like 98/XP.
>Or one can also have the initial infection if desired: Windows 7 with
>the irrelevant extra panel. It can be as messy or as sane as you like.
>
>   I've written shell extensions myself. Property pages and an Explorer
>Bar. I'd be using my Explorer Bar still, but it's 32-bit only. If you're
>not familiar with shell extensions then you might look it up. There's
>an extensive and perfectly kosher API for them.

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  Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-02-02 19:58 -0500
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    Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-03 10:35 +0000
      Re: WIN1 1One-line taskbar; Starting wndwos without pasword Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> - 2025-02-03 08:37 -0500
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