Enderman should work for Microsoft, since he's better at improving it then the workers themselves

They're focussing on the wrong things. We need more Windows builds that had many years of development put into them. Microsoft tries a new UI on every major release instead of trying to perfect the existing one while gradually adding features if they are stable enough. At this point I don't plan on upgrading Windows anymore after I noticed how much functionality in Windows 10 started degrading from just regular updates. I hope they have better quality control on Windows 12, or spend the effort they spent on Windows Vista where they made everything graphically super consistent and added as many options as they could. On Windows 10 and 11 they designed icons for programs but never applied them. Windows 10 doesn't properly have bitlocker and defrag icons in place for example, despite these icons having been designed and included in Windows. Also, can I get access to the Discord server back?

Not only Explorer, but many other Windows components are also swappable. The explorerframe DLL file can be swapped with an older one from build 21332 to completely disable the XAML File Explorer UI and reduce padding for the addressbar and search box!

I work with the IT support department at my school, and as one of the people there said "i f***ing hate windows 11" as he tried to extract a zip file and explorer kept crashing, im guessing that what he said could be reflected in what microsoft are doing with windows, making it all look nice while looking at stability and asking "is anyone going to fix that" and deny any answers, while taking things from previous version of windows that are better and deliberaly breaking them, which causes things like homegroups still being mentioned in the contol panel, at least on windows 10.

That "Language preferences" dialog actually comes from the touch keyboard of all things. Microsoft randomly decided to make the touch keyboard always enabled, just slightly off screen. I guess it might have sped up loading times, even though there are none. Explorer gets confused and shows that UWP dialog for some reason.

Windows 11 is so much like Windows 10 that the Windows 10 explorer works in Windows 11 properly and even restores the Windows 10 taskbar

This reminds me when Microsoft break (on purpose) Aero Glass (Glass 8) in Windows 10.

I remember swapping 95/98 explorers killed the system. this shows that windows 11 really is windows 10 with a pretty coat.

Okay we're all definetly gonna agree on this. Microsoft is really pushing it's user-experience and UI with their office apps. They are overusing the design, For example: The office app has curved corners, and every other app has curved corners. Don't forget the fact that they use the same "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your device?" UI for the "Save" "Cancel" "Do not save" When you open the outdated Video editor app, There's an error that comes over with rounded corners, saying that it has been replaced by the clipchamp app.

I love that we can drag Windows 11 kicking and screaming into using the Windows 10 stuff since the internal version numbers are still NT 10.0

a few things are wrong - The "fix" will break with every update - this change is currently in Canary and will probably remain tied to a velocity ID, AKA disabling the ID will fix Explorer Patcher.

Love how Microsoft removes the best features of the last version with every update.

Microsoft: lets just kill ExplorerPatcher for no reason Windows 10 Taskbar: *YOU CANT DESTROY ME THAT EASILY*

Yeah, hopefully ExplorerPatcher could fix the issue not to break compatibility with 23H2.

Tons of legacy code from windows 3.11 still lives in 11, but the windows taskbar, the most useful thing they had, no that they've managed to rip it out of the codebase which probably took a lot of work and for what? It's not like it was bothering anyone. I'm gonna backup my explorer from build 22000 in case an update somehow occurs even with it disabled, you never know these days. Thanks for the awesome content and keep it coming!

The straight up deleted the code, I think, rather than hardcoding it out. The file size of the Win11 explorer is smaller. Phenomenal.

Microsoft seems to assume that they don’t have to put any effort into making Windows any good, because not many people are going to switch anyway. So far, they seem to be right about that. Heck, they fired the whole QA team and released several duds (with one of them even deleting user’s files). If that doesn’t make people switch, nothing will.

ExplorerPatcher is the reason why I haven't just downgraded to win10 on my new laptop. It needs to be a core part of the OS, not something that's battling new updates.

Windows users try to make it better and Microsoft tries to make Windows worse... December 3, 2023 6:02AM

It's quite funny that Microsoft start to phase out Windows 10 Explorer code but not fixing the sethc exploit yet🤔🤔🤔

You should check if they fixed the registry editor which says that the OS name is "Windows 10"

Totally agree that they should add Aero and/or Luna theme. I'd finally update then.

At this point Windows is no longer an operating system. It's even worse than the advertising billboard that it is. It's become a disease; Microsoft makes these creepy, unwanted changes to Windows. Happy to have left it for good in 2019. Linux all the way baby! Can't remember what a license code was. I just watch from the cheap seats and go "yeah Microsoft! Way to go! You've done it again!"

This solution to the popular problem is actually quite straightforward…

As someone still on 22H2 version of 11, I see this as a absolute win

​now replace the windows 11 logon ui with the windows 10 logonui

Well I hope the new fixed version can work on my system since in my case, from the 1st day 22H2 came out, ExplorerPatcher and other taskbar utilities (classic shell to make another example) just make everything go unresponsive and freeze within two minutes after boot (first taskbar becomes unresponsive, then it crashes, then the wallpaper disappears, then task manager stops working, then ctrl+alt+del stops working, then the mouse cursor freezes, then alt+tab also stops working, then no keyboard input works anymore, then you're forced to hold the power button). Doesn't seem to be the case for all users, but the fact the same thing happened to two different computers I had, and both after I upgraded from 21H2 to 22H2, well, it's fishy... (in the end I had to uninstall and live the last year with basic start menu and taskbar)

I like how Windows allows 3rd party software, yet when they do, they screw it all up

if you replaced the explorer.exe with the one from Windows 10 1903 it will have the right click context menu and ribbon back

3:32 i have done this way before that change it's so funny to see windows 10's explorer.exe work on "modern" windows 11

Just out of pure curiosity, is it possible to do this the other way around? (Import the Windows 11 explorer into Windows 10 22H2). Would be cool to see a video on that, whether it works or not.

6:22 grandma style

reject the windows 11 ui, return to command prompt

I love how Micro$oft actively makes their own product worse. The decline of such and important and ubiquitous tool is just so depressing. Honestly they need to narrow the scope and finish what they started windows 11 is windows 10 because Microsoft is constantly trying to jump on the next new thing when people value usability not rounded corners a different icon pack and a horrible right click menu. Their feature scope is all over the place their scattered brained approach is missing the most important thing the eXPerence that’s what made XP so good it was simple and elegant this is convoluted and contrived. It’s like trying to paint over rust/remnants like Andrew was saying but you never end up seeing the paint all you see is the rust.

alternative title: injecting the superbar into the windows 10 mod

I recently downgraded to Windows 10 and have not regret it. either way my computer doesn't officially support 11, and while I think the Windows 11 UI is sometimes visually pleasing, it lacks a lot of functionality that the 10 UI offers, and it's just so tablet-y

the fact that windows 11 is so similar to 10 that you can literally replace explorer.exe with the 10 one and it works perfectly fine in 11 is just crazy

Good stuff! The other frustrating part I find is that Microsoft is locking out legacy OSes from newer technologies. 7 and 8 have been sealed away with the push for DCH drivers. Gaming on 7 has been taken away for new games due to DirectX12 + the DCH driver issue I mentioned previously. And then, with their newer OSes, they do just a sloppy job and focus on places that are unimportant - while demanding everyone use those OSes. Coupled with a lack of a QA department, you see the state of Windows as it is right now. It's really sad.

Microsoft Devs: 1/10 Enderman: 1M/10

I still use Windows 10 (LTSC) on my PC, I still don't want to upgrade to Windows 11...

i'm using startallback which much like explorerpatcher, reverts the windows 10 taskbar and adds a few cool tweaks. in combination with openshell, it makes me feel pretty at home, as if i'm still using windows 10. though, i've been forcing myself to stay on windows 11 21h2 since microsoft has changed something with themes in 22h2. i'm using a custom uxtheme patch-based theme which after updating to 22h2, causes the context menus to freak out and not display anything at times. it's extremely frustrating and i don't wanna get rid of a custom ui-wide black theme (which i don't see why microsoft struggles to make one). not to mention all of the ai bloat microsoft is injecting into windows past 22h2, which makes me pretty uneasy with what windows might become usability-wise, though 21h2 luckily doesn't suffer from this. these changes will make windows not feel like windows anymore and i'm kinda scared to see what'll happen with windows 12.

6:15 You can immediately see how Windows 11 has gotten better)

As an explorerpatcher + taskbarx user on Windows 11 this very helpful to know. Microsoft rolling out Ls like usual

God I miss windows being feature complete they really peaked with 2000/XP

Love to see Enderman back on my YT Recommended page! Keep up the great work!

I remember from WinXP era that there was a software called ViGlance that bring Vista and Se7en taskbar to WinXP with Aero glass and everything, can you check if that runs? I don't bother to have Win11 not even in a VM in the state it is now, nor do I intend to install it as primary OS in the upcoming decade.

i miss the old enderman

Is there any way to resize Windows 11's start menu to become full screen like in Windows 10? Or can you also bring back the start menu from Windows 10? This and the taskbar are the only things that stop me from updating to Windows 11. Start has always annoyed me when it wasn't full screen. I found it clumsy to navigate even as a child when using Windows 98, 2000, XP and so on. There was subfolder after subfolder after subfolder in an endless tree until you could actually find the thing you actually looked for. It was so annoying. When Windows 8 came, it was like a breath of fresh air. My biggest complaint with Windows has finally been solved. It finally had a well organized Start Menu, that was easy to navigate and pleasant to look at. After that, they kept downgrading it. First by removing the live wallpapers in Windows 10, then by stripping all color out of it in the latest visual refresh of Windows 10. And now removing it all together in Windows 11 and going back to non-full screen.

6:25 Windows 15 Taskbar be like:

Windows 11 is so borked, once I tried to log in and the only, *only* thing that would show up was the activate Windows watermark

It's strange how Microsoft only removes backward compatibility when they shouldn't

I switched to Windows 11 as I found a custom build called "Ghost Spectre" which has a lot of tweaks to make it a usable OS, and nuked updates through group policies, otherwise I wouldn't touch it with a 10-feet pole

I wonder if you could put a task bar from like Windows XP or 7 into Windows 11?? I know it's a stretch considering, but I wonder what would happen...

Watch, next move they make is to force the latest version of Explorer and to download it and launch system recovery if it detects older versions

I think that a newer version's Explorer, like 20348 could work better

Enderman should make his own windows 11 clone.

The fact that you can just swap out the shell executable from one version to another shows how little difference there is in the backend between the two, it's almost as if they're the same operating system with a few visual changes hacked in on one of them.

I might be missing something but wouldn't replacing explorer.exe change how the file explorer looks/works? wouldn't that too be the win10 one?

If they added the windows 10 taskbar, or even aero and luna, the windows 11 would be instantly the no.1 windows version

You can use start11 to change the start menu to windows 10

Microsoft, hire this man

Startallback does this but using its own overlay, and requires a task scheduler event to keep it from ending the evaluation.

Yo enderman what wallpaper do you use?

i can now rest easy knowing enderman plays geometry dash

I cant be the only one that watches and pretends to know whats happening

Just "upgraded" to Windows 11 (22H2) this year. Besides 11 looking like a more decent and stable OS now, what convinced me is the more consistent and less flat GUI, live captions (super handy for ppl like me), and ofc available mods/tweaks for 11. Ngl, as an IT guy who used to pan 11 a lot, I'm content with it so far. And a lot of the 11 users I've helped are content with theirs. *But* if current 10 users ask, I'd still tell them to stay put and hope 12 will be better.

Yeah, the Windows 11 dev team has recently been merged with the team that develops the windows apps, so it is expected to be a complete shitshow :/

You did it, holy shit you really did it.

Microsoft broke Explorer Patcher with its recent Dev 26080.1100 24H2 build, enabling the ugly Windows 11 taskbar. I had to uninstall EP because Windows Explorer kept crashing, resulting in a black screen. Installing EP 64.2 fixed the issue. I got the Windiows 10 taskbar with the small icons back. Works with Open Shell! 😊

Wonder what stuff UX and UI designers take these days.

*to enderman/andrew* Have you ever tried to apply for a job at microsoft, They'd probably hire you. also, you can try to mod minecraft or something to do with minecraft, hack a server with cmd, editing the packets before sending them to the server.

Now we just need to replace windows 11's file explorer with 10's.

More sad is that MS is trying to replace the "Show desktop" option in the outer right of the taskbar with Copilot, what is MS really thinking

I'm not using Win11 cause of the ugly rounded corners. I have a thing against rounded corners.

windows ran so slow on a new install that it had the windows 10 taskbar and restart later it's gone

everytime you use i feel like i have to read it in spamton

F*CKIN REPLACE IT WITH Win7

massgrave + windows 10 ltsc iot = you don't need to worry about 10 EOL

At around 1:34 you get a bug in Windows that I consistently get and this is the first time on the internet I've seen this. The taskbar will just freeze and crash every once in a while and it's just frustrating. I love modding Minecraft and not only does modding Minecraft require technical knowledge of how the game's folder structure works but you also need to have a file manager. This crash can instantly ruin mods worth of work into putting in. They seriously need to fix the bug. EDIT: Oh and I forgot, but this is on Windows 10, not 11. And even then, 11 is just 10 but worse. I don't know how Microsoft thought that 11 would work in the grand scheme of operating systems.

The best OS by far in my opinion is Windows 7. They should have just continued to support Windows 7 and add new features to that like DirectX12, the windows store rather than actually modifying the UI. That OS was just way too reliable and puts current day Windows to shame.

Seems like according to sources, The ExplorerPatcher is for customizing the Windows layout. So Windows breaking it makes it impossible to change it. That's the worst thing Microsoft has ever done.

Speaking of XP Luna Blue, you can force Windows to use the classic #245DDA as the custom colour, theme your taskbar the same colour, set the text as #ffffff white and set the change if yoiu’re using Open Shell. I’m running Apple Guy’s dynamic modern Bliss wallpaper set. 😊

i did the same thing but it doesn't show the volume button

those are exactly the changes i've feared that made me not upgrade to 11. replacing the legacy stuff should have been done with the initial release. we're not your beta testers microsoft.

I really love this videos! An idea: Try installing Windows xp on a sd card!

I really hope that if there is a Windows 12, then it wouldn't release as an unfinished buggy mess... I hope that Microsoft will learn from their mistakes for once because this is way too bad

as a linux user i see this as an absolute win

where did you get all this windows knowledge? btw reasons like these is why i’m abandoning windows sadly yes i use arch btw

windows be like after a feature update

if you still like the new explorer but old taskbar, just replace explorer with the explorer from the build where it wasn’t yet changed.

It’s literally about forcing control for Microsoft. Like others said, they deliberately played with this one feature out of many, many old components they could’ve updated/fixed. They want the upper hand over users but they’re doing it in a way that Apple wouldn’t even attempt. It’s just tacky, stupid and makes the experience worse off.

This is actuarly Awsome. I do wonder if it would work on other os's. must try lol.

Merry Christmas, Andrew! Subscribed to you since 2019. Every. Single. Second. I see the views and likes rolling up!

As much as I hate microsoft, you can't just expect them to do everything in their power to avoid breaking a third party patcher that's only goal is to change things in the OS that are as critical as the file explorer

If I Unserstand this right, Windows 11 is basicly Windows 10 with another gui and now they're removing Windows 10? That makes no sense whatsoever

Enderman blasting bangers to his videos

Dude glad to see you back!

Theoretically, couldn’t you swap Win7 Explorer.exe with windows 11’s? My main guess on why it wouldn’t work would be incompatibility’s with modern system things, but a patch could be made for it.

Windows 11's user interface (fluent ui) is literally visual HRT.

Video idea: try to bring back the old cmd look on win11