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ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70: Abstürze unter Vorschau-Builds von Windows 11 be­hoben https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/explorerpatcher-26100-8457-70-abstuerze-unter-vorschau-builds-von-windows-11-behoben.97453/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70: Abstürze unter Vorschau-Builds von Windows 11 be­hoben https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/explorerpatcher-26100-8457-70-abstuerze-unter-vorschau-builds-von-windows-11-behoben.97453/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70: Abstürze unter Vorschau-Builds von Windows 11 be­hoben https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/explorerpatcher-26100-8457-70-abstuerze-unter-vorschau-builds-von-windows-11-behoben.97453/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70: Abstürze unter Vorschau-Builds von Windows 11 be­hoben https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/explorerpatcher-26100-8457-70-abstuerze-unter-vorschau-builds-von-windows-11-behoben.97453/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

ExplorerPatcher 26100.8457.70: Abstürze unter Vorschau-Builds von Windows 11 be­hoben https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/explorerpatcher-26100-8457-70-abstuerze-unter-vorschau-builds-von-windows-11-behoben.97453/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

Windows-10-Look auf Windows 11: Über 20 Fehler in Explorer Patcher 26100.4946.69.6 behoben https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/windows-10-look-auf-windows-11-ueber-20-fehler-in-explorer-patcher-26100-4946-69-6-behoben.94902/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

Explorer Patcher 26100.4946.69: Verbesserte Version des „Windows 11 sieht aus wie 10“-Tools https://www.computerbase.de/news/apps/explorerpatcher-26100-4946-69-verbesserte-version-des-windows-11-sieht-aus-wie-10-tools.94568/ #ExplorerPatcher #Windows10 #Windows11

Work PC received #Windows11 #24H2 today. While waiting for the update of #ExplorerPatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to get my #Windows10 taskbar back, I found #QuickLaunch https://github.com/chrizonix/QuickLaunch , which will let you add the content of a folder to your taskbar again. The second it takes to show up is painful, but it's still better than nothing, for the moment.

How I Windows

This post is primarily for me to describe what I do to keep some sanity in my Windows life, but I know people don’t like the ways I hack at Windows to remove this stuff, so I plan to go over other methods to obtain the same thing, so you can make an informed decision for yourself, if you care as much as me. Don’t feel like you have to do anything though. I’m mostly writing this so people know what’s out there. I’m a power user, so this is probably for power users, or people who can take care of their technology like I think I can.

### First, what I do

I use [Ame Wizard](https://ameliorated.io/), with a playbook of settings and things to remove from Windows. Currently, the two best user-facing playbooks are [Atlas OS](https://atlasos.net/) and [Revision](https://revi.cc). These will help you remove Copilot, along with Windows Defender and many other things, but the process isn’t the most user friendly. You have to use a lot of object navigation with NVDA to get through the amelioration, but it’s possible. I find these playbooks leave me with a low CPU usage but without disabling too many features. Revision is the best if you’re new and just don’t want too many issues after the fact. Ame themselves make a playbook, but IMPO unless you want to go back to 2004 it will leave you with too much missing. I need to try their new in-beta playbook though—it has a different name so maybe things have gotten better in that department.

Secondly, after amelioration,
I may still need to use [Aurora](https://github.com/azurejoga/Aurora-Windows-Optimizer), [Winaero Tweaker](https://winaerotweaker.com/), or [Explorer Patcher](https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher) along with either the Revision tool, or the tweaks in the Atlas folder, but I’ve only ever used Explorer Patcher to fix up Explorer things after I ran Ame Wizard. Aurora is useful for a few different reasons, and it’s maintained by a blind person. It’s also pretty close to playbooks as well. The reason I don’t put it in alternatives is because I assume that people will look at this thing the same way they look at playbooks.

### What are some other options?

There are some other options you have, which might be less impactful in comparison but will get you close to the CPU improvements.

* First is just adding exclusions to Defender—for example, App Data, Program Files, your audio games that Windows Defender flags as a virus but are not one, etc. I’ve heard that just adding Thunderbird’s app data folder to Defender will kill a lot of accessibility slowness with Thunderbird. So why not just add the whole fucking App Data folder to it. I think it’s crazy that people don’t see a problem with this state of affairs, but moving on…
* The second option I think you have is [tricking Defender into disabling itself](https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender). I have not tried this.
* The third option you have is [completely removing Defender from a Windows ISO](https://github.com/soncms/StripWindowsDefender). This makes amelioration such a fun experience since you don’t have to go through disabling Windows Defender.
* Lastly, you could try [tiny11 builder](https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder), which will allow you to apply tiny11 tweaks to any ISO you download. I have not tried this.

I hope you enjoyed this article and learned something new about optimizing Windows for yourself. Maybe one day AI will make this article seem pointless and old. Nah.

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The US election results worried me, the collapse of the German government also hit me hard, but still: Why the hell doesn't #ExplorerPatcher manage to show the names of the applications in my stupid #Windows11 taskbar anymore since yesterday???

Ughhh the latest version of #ExplorerPatcher has been marked as malware by Microsoft and a bunch of other virus scanners.

The project maintainers insist it's a false positive and likely Microsoft trying to clamp down on them for whatever reason.

Guess I'll just stay on my currently installed version for a bit and see if it blows over.

Yep, with the latest versions of OpenShell and ExplorerPatcher it's exactly as I like it! Yay! 🎉 🥳

#Windows #OpenShell #technology #self #thoughts #computers #ExplorerPatcher

Oh, never mind; I just needed to download the latest pre-release (?) version of OpenShell. And I just figured out I was running ExplorerPatcher on my old machine too. God, I'm so silly. 😌 Anyway, it should all work out just fine.

#Windows #OpenShell #technology #self #thoughts #computers #ExplorerPatcher