I haven't tried W10 so far. No "Desktop" is a start, but aren't there still thumbnails, even larger than before? Or am I thinking of another switching mechanism? Yes adding it and or removing it does not change the situation, some games actually force windows to use classic alt tab, even when not in compatibility mode as I mentioned in my post earlier. That's why I need this to remove search pane, for whatever reason nobody else is reporting my difficulties but changing the registry setting does nothing. That's why I need this patch to remove search pane... which unfortunately isn't removing it... also I can't find anyway to disable search pane since I use classic shell.