Windows 7 explorer for Windows 8

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by Tihiy, Jul 20, 2012.

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  1. Tihiy

    Tihiy MDL Junior Member

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    Uhh why do you have glass (with square corners, huh?) on taskbar / start menu and not windows? I'm fine with your mod, if you include my patcher with readme.txt and all that as well as link to my work. But what you show looks very strange, can you provide more info in your thread?
     
  2. M0rriss0n

    M0rriss0n MDL Senior Member

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    Go to the thread "36799-right-click-context-shutdown-restart-system-panel-sounds"

    and read everything!
     
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  3. anti-t

    anti-t MDL Junior Member

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    #204 anti-t, Sep 2, 2012
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    Upgraded from b3 to b5a... Metro UI is back when I click on network icon on the systray ! I want metro out completely whatever it takes, going back to B3 until fixed.

    anyone can re-upload b4 pls ??

    @Tihiy: could you please leave the links of olders version, coz I don't want metro stuff at all indroduced with b5
     
  4. anti-t

    anti-t MDL Junior Member

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    +1000

    get metro out pls Tihiy
     
  5. s1ave77

    s1ave77 Has left at his own request

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    @ Tihiy
    Great work, man! Runs like charm on my Win 8 Pro x64. Praise the lord i got rid of that naughty "Metro"-dictate :fear2: at least.
     
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  6. Tihiy

    Tihiy MDL Junior Member

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    Please stop this offtopic flame at once.:busted_red:
     
  7. urie

    urie retired mod

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    Get Back on Topic and stop flaming.
     
  8. colaxiox

    colaxiox MDL Novice

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    Very good . Thank U
     
  9. Tihiy

    Tihiy MDL Junior Member

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    #211 Tihiy, Sep 3, 2012
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    The final or nearly-final beta will be released soon. Ctrl-P and AutoPlay gonna be fixed and they will be Metro versions. Getting less metro would require porting a lot of files from win7 without much RAM benefit, getting more metro is impossible without patching kernel which isn't worth it.

    Also:
    - Should this topic be renamed?
    - I'm unable to accept donations in Russia. Do you know anything/-one which can help?
    - Spread the word, people are still using heavy tools to get inferior start menu clones.
    - Send me (via PM) strings 5381-5385 from your localized shell32.dll.mui from win7, extracted with some resource viewer.
     
  10. ISOHaven

    ISOHaven MDL Junior Member

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    #212 ISOHaven, Sep 3, 2012
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    Very good news! Unfortunately, for me, today is an American holiday. However, tomorrow I'll test the heck out of it!

    In case anyone was wondering....I saw some talk about user tiles earlier...people were requesting a user tile-less version of the start menu (another site I think). Please don't! The user tile works fine even though Win8 handles the login tile differently. In my case, Active Directory updates the user's local tile via a login script and the old script works fine. So it just has to be man handled.

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    I don't think so. It's pretty much still on track. Maybe add ORIGINAL WINDOWS 7 START MENU?

    I know I can take money from Russia via Paypal. Are you unable to take money and bring it into Russia via Paypal?

    I've pointed dozens of sites to this thread. People are very excited about it!
     
  11. Tihiy

    Tihiy MDL Junior Member

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    Beta 6 is here - attached to first post

    - Fix: shell could crash if broken shortcuts were on desktop
    - AutoPlay now works (no toast)
    - Win-P now works
    - Other minor improvements

    When upgrading, you must first run patchex7 and select "8", then re-logon in order to be able to replace files. After replacing files, run patchex7 and select "7".

    Sorry for delay...
     
  12. pc84

    pc84 MDL Novice

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    #214 pc84, Sep 5, 2012
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    thanks you for your hard work :biggrin:
    Have you seen my last post about fixing the link to the personalize screen ? (in control pannel)
    edit : i guess it can't as it's a part of metro, right ?
     
  13. Tihiy

    Tihiy MDL Junior Member

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    Metro programs won't run so getting into immersive pc settings is no-no.
     
  14. maarten

    maarten MDL Novice

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    i think he mean, about the right mouse button / theme settings

    anyway thanks for this super work!
     
  15. lunar21

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    What about first login, will it still go to the windows 8 metro tile crap?
     
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  16. M0rriss0n

    M0rriss0n MDL Senior Member

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    No, straight into desktop.
     
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  17. Tihiy

    Tihiy MDL Junior Member

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    Well you're supposed to install it after first login, no?
    You can integrate patched explorer.exe,explorer.exe.mui,7.reg,wrp32.dll/wrp64.dll it into install.wim\C:\Windows with some skills and then you won't see tiles ever again in win8.
    Or you mean does it show tiles for a bare second like other tools? No, not any bit.
     
  18. pc84

    pc84 MDL Novice

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    ok no problem. I understand.

    I noticed 2 minors bugs :
    -In the start menu the text "search programs and files" on french os don't appear immediatly (empty box)
    -The show desktop button near clock when i use the small taskbar is very large compared to original explorer.