[roirraW "edor" ehT]

Tested on W8 RP x64, works nice. Hopefully it'll be possible to have the Start Menu start up in the normal view with the recent programs on the left, and an "All Programs" link instead of defaulting to the "All Programs" view.

Good job!

Makes sense now that deleting the icons would remove them from the Start Screen.

[Aloha]

Tihiy, on 20 July 2012 - 12:09 PM, said:

No whining allowed. I've attached desktop.lnk, drag it into start folders.

I wasn't whining! Just wanted to tell everyone not to make the same mistake. Look at the download count of the attachment, sir! Don't say that I need your desktop file so much that I have to download it four times in all! I won't say thanks because you said I was whining!

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Warrior,
When I click on Explorer on the taskbar, another icon of it will jump out. It doesn't combine with the available icon. This doesn't happen when I click on IE. Something like this:



Do you think this should be fixed?

[roirraW "edor" ehT]

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Warrior,
When I click on Explorer on the taskbar, another icon of it will jump out. It doesn't combine with the available icon. This doesn't happen when I click on IE. Something like this:



Do you think this should be fixed?

It's not a huge priority to me, I mainly use GPSoftware Directory Opus, but if everything else is fixed, then yes that could be a last priority.

This post has been edited by roirraW "edor" ehT: 20 July 2012 - 10:40 PM

[dencorso]

tomasz86, on 19 July 2012 - 05:10 PM, said:

I don't use Windows 8 myself but I just want to say thank you Tihiy for this awesome patcher you've been developing

You may have guessed already I don't use Win 8 either (nor do I think I'll in the foreseeable future -- I do have access to Win 7 machine, though, but use it sparingly)... Anyhow, my feelings echo those expressed by tomasz86: thank you, Tihiy, for this awesome project. You do rock!

[Shane]

Works brilliantly, great job!

[MagicAndre1981]

b1 works fine. But you need the original explorer.exe So it would be nice if the tool could create a backup of the original explorer.exe.

[Tihiy]

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When I click on Explorer on the taskbar, another icon of it will jump out. It doesn't combine with the available icon.

Unpin original explorer and pin new one. They're different programs and it should be comprehensible, as well as start menu dual nature. I'll add those facts to thread third post.

[Aloha]

Okay, it works. The taskbar looks better now. Thank you.

Btw, I put the two needed files in a safe folder so that I can easily get them for the new patch! I guess we will need them a few more times.

[roirraW "edor" ehT]

MagicAndre1981, on 21 July 2012 - 02:57 AM, said:

b1 works fine. But you need the original explorer.exe So it would be nice if the tool could create a backup of the original explorer.exe.

This explorer doesn't overwrite the old explorer, all you have to do is run the patch and select "8" to switch back to the original explorer.

[MagicAndre1981]

it patches the Win7 explorer file. Running the newer version complains about already patched file.

[roirraW "edor" ehT]

MagicAndre1981, on 21 July 2012 - 01:55 PM, said:

it patches the Win7 explorer file. Running the newer version complains about already patched file.

Oh I see.

[tomasz86]

If one wanted to have everything automated the tool would have to download Win7 SP1 (500MB), extract explorer.exe & explorer.exe.mui from there and then patch them.

[roirraW "edor" ehT]

tomasz86, on 22 July 2012 - 02:07 PM, said:

If one wanted to have everything automated the tool would have to download Win7 SP1 (500MB), extract explorer.exe & explorer.exe.mui from there and then patch them.

Actually, he probably would be allowed to for instance:

1. Create the patched Windows 7 Explorer file on his own machine.

2. Run a DIFF between the Windows 8 RP Explorer and his now patched Windows 7 one.

3. Do the same for the MUI.

4. Have his patcher apply the DIFFs to the RP Explorer and MUI to create the patched Windows 7 ones.

Beyond that his program would be the same, wait for user prompt to decide whether they want the Windows 7 Explorer or Windows 8 RP one.

[CoffeeFiend]

I've cleaned up this thread of unnecessary drama. Sorry if some on-topic stuff had to go with it.

For the record: we cannot legally share original MS files (from Windows or anything else, be it explorer.exe or whatever else). It's also against the forum rules, and understandably the site owner doesn't like getting DMCA takedown notices in his email. If someone doesn't like it, they can feel free to provide a better solution (while remaining legal of course).

Constructive criticism and on-topic discussion is more than welcome as usual. Let's keep it at that please.

[tomasz86]

Anyway, how about getting Win7 SP1 explorer.exe from this hotfix?

http://support.micro....com/kb/2444677

x86: http://hotfixv4.micr...tl_i386_zip.exe (1.2 MB)

x64: http://hotfixv4.micr...ntl_x64_zip.exe (1.7 MB)

[Aloha]

This explorer 7 is more interesting than I thought.
- Now there are sounds when I sign out, sign in or shut down or start the computer.
- With explorer 8, the automatic theme always makes the title bar and the taskbar have the same color when I change the wallpaper. This explorer 7 lets them choose color severally. The color of the taskbar always blends well with the color at the bottom of the wallpaper, while the title bar will have the dominate color of the whole picture. This means sometimes they have the same color, sometimes they have different color. And I really like this!

[florin91]

Are you sure this patch is still working?

I tried it today on Windows 8 x64 updated Build 8400 and it didn't worked. No start menu here!

Thanks!

[MagicAndre1981]

tomasz86, on 22 July 2012 - 02:48 PM, said:

Anyway, how about getting Win7 SP1 explorer.exe from this hotfix?

expand the MSU and use expand.exe to extract the CAB.

florin91, on 23 July 2012 - 02:25 PM, said:

I tried it today on Windows 8 x64 updated Build 8400 and it didn't worked. No start menu here!

have you used the 64Bit Explorer? Is the MUI at the correct place?

[Aloha]

I wonder why he can't solve the problem relating to the scroll bar I mentioned in my own topic. It is explorer 7, and this problem doesn't happen on W7 at all.

In case there is a new update, I would like it possible to log out through the start menu instead of having to press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

And ... I think Tomasz86 just offered where to get explorer 7, he didn't ask for the way how to get it!

[MagicAndre1981]

Aloha, on 24 July 2012 - 05:25 AM, said:

I think Tomasz86 just offered where to get explorer 7, he didn't ask for the way how to get it!

ok, I misunderstood this.