Hi, Is there any way to remove Home and Gallery from Explorer navigation pane and stop all Windows logging for recent files and showing recent folders in navigation pane ?
To remove Gallery from Explorer Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\CLSID\{e88865ea-0e1c-4e20-9aa6-edcd0212c87c}] "System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:00000000 To remove Home from Explorer 24H2+ Code: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer] "HubMode"=dword:00000001 [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{F874310E-B6B7-47DC-BC84-B9E6B38F5903}] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\{F874310E-B6B7-47DC-BC84-B9E6B38F5903}]
In my personal opinion, I don't recommend using tools to customize. Using UWP apps is out of the question.
Talking about UWP apps...... It feels like the best hobby Mickysoft guys have at the office is to build new runtimes. Hey Rob, what's up dude ? Nothing much, feeling a little bored. Hey, why not let's build a new runtime ? That'll be fun. Great idea, let's go, Paul. How many runtimes exactly are there for a fully functional system ? .Net CLR 1, 2, 3.x, 4.x, then there's entire Core branch 1, 2, 3. Then comes the newest bang "desktop runtimes" 5, 6, 7, 8 which were developed to unite with the Core branch so Mickysoft could push more "cloud" services on you. Then there's Edge Webview2 runtime so you could see advertisements inside shell and your apps. As if that wasn't bad enough, an entire new framework was developed UWP which is entirely consists of nothing than various runtimes. On my 22H2 system, disk image shows 2.3 GB System and 2.2 GB Apps with a measly 20 MB Calculator installed as the only UWP app. Rest 2.2 GB's are all UWP runtime infrastructure. And don't forget the good ol' C++ runtimes that are needed all the way from 2005 to 2022. Mickysoft is aggressively pushing the shell stack out of Win32 realm and into WinUI3 which is as bloated and slow as the UWP framework. There are so many abstract layers between the code and hardware, its not even comprehensible. That's not surprising as both WinUI3 and UWP emanates from the same sick disgusted branch and motivated by the same goals, which are to keep users tied to Mickysoft ecosystem, push services that are neither wanted nor needed with a convenient "premium" feature, newest game on that abomination called Mickysoft store where you need "extra" coins to play beyond the first level, of course available to purchase and treating the end user as Guinea pig and hardware as Mickysoft personal "disposable" testing laboratory, as the old, tried, tested and dependable API's, frameworks and modules are being retired, WMIC being the latest casualty. Good luck interpreting the Powershell commands. All those 3rd party tweak apps and scripts, StartAllBack, Explorer Patcher, Blackbird, Win10Privacy, Stop10updates to name a few that flooded the market in wake of Windows 10/11 is the direct consequence of this policy. Had these devs organized themselves and worked to produce such goodies for Linux, instead of trying to fix a broken system which, with every new update, will never stop being broken because of its underlying policy, we users would have gotten somewhere. From the days of Windows XP until the last cohesive, optimized Windows 7 so many users, I bet 90% of them, used the DAZ loader, Mickysoft replied, don't worry users, we're gonna teach you a lesson you'll take to your graves as nooze tightens a litlle more with every new update.
Suggest a way to disable (block) the startup menu that pops up at the first start of Windows ? It is necessary that the menu does not appear automatically during the first boot.
What do you mean "full" ? There was never a full dark mode in any Windows ever, it has always been broken, incompetent Mickysoft guys working their ass off for $4 an hour, don't know how to fix that. Only way to fix it, use Rectify11, their patches work upuntil 25H2 confirmed and tested. Just don't forget to copy duires.dll from 23H2 into 25H2 or 26H1.
I can but other things have changed (the disks progress bar has the appearance of Windows 7 for example) And the progress bar is also blue (except for the taskbar) no more green