@Tihiy: really nice wrapper BTW: did you forget last "L" char (from filename) in code, when you had replaced SHLWAPI.DLL with WRP64.DLL? View attachment 17139
. I would like to know that too... If this path can in future will be able to completely FIX widows 8 Thank you !
I don't know what to say... I'm almost convinced to give Windows 8 another chance on a productivity device. The core of Windows 8 and the shell of Windows 7. It's the best of both worlds. Thanks for the great work, Tihiy. Someone had to do it and I'm glad now that someone did.
Excellent news, Everyone! Beta 5 is here - attached to first post - major improvements - Network systray icon works (Metro UI) - Programs MFU list: improved performance - Programs MFU list: now collects shortcuts from desktop too - Fix: Alt-Tab window didn't show application icons 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". I'll probably slow down, i spend whole week digging this. With network icon working, this is finally usable with Wi-Fi connections.
You are AWESOME! So far it's working great. Network options all worked. I was able to connect to WiFi. The only thing I see not working is Pin to Start. Seems the only way I can add something to the start menu is to drag and drop it. Other then that I think I'm ready to roll out the first machine and have a user test it for a while. Going to be hard now that all my test users are completely against Win8 They'll be over joyed once they see Metro gone and the start menu back. EDIT: Oh yeah, and recently used apps don't seem to be populating the start menu either even though that option is ticked.
"Pin to Start" should be removed and replaced with "Pin/Unpin to Start Menu" when you install. It's done by patchex7.exe - it exports 7.reg/8.reg into registry when you run it; did you extract them? Ensure they're extracted and re-run patchex7.exe. There's minor bug - it's not refreshed until you pin/unpin something or restart explorer. It shouldn't be a problem after it populates enough, but i hope to fix it.
Yes, they are there. Had them there since beta4. I ran it and went back to 8 then ran it again and went back to 7. Still says Pin to Start. I checked the reg myself and the keys you want to delete in 7.reg were still there. So I ran 7.reg myself and rebooted. Now it says Pin to Start Menu and works. I went ahead and blew out the entire Windows 8 install and reinstalled. Ran the patch again from scratch and 7.reg did not apply again. AWESOME!
Going to thank every your single post you write, that it great job, and is very important, you are another Master here!!! Even i will never use Windows 8(is not themeable as Windows 7, without Aero themes becomes uglier and not interesting!) i will follow your work! Keep going Man
You're excellent tester. Turns out there was lame bug in patchex7 which didn't apply reg files if path to it contained spaces. Silently fixed - first post.
beta 5 is bad for me I went back to beta 4 Thanks for your hard work... you are the best... beta 5 is bad for me I went back to beta 4 metro needs to be gone for me. the way to fix the wi fi network is to make a batch file to close explorer.exe then open explorer.exe now you can fix the wi fi connection and it will stay connected because you temporally have metro. just google process203.zip echo off process -k explorer.exe explorer.exe Beta 5 is here - attached to first post - major improvements - Network systray icon works (Metro UI) - Programs MFU list: improved performance - Programs MFU list: now collects shortcuts from desktop too - Fix: Alt-Tab window didn't show application icons 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". I'll probably slow down, i spend whole week digging this. With network icon working, this is finally usable with Wi-Fi connections.[/QUOTE]
I agree it would be right direction. But we can't avoid Metro totally without replacing / recreating a lot of shell interfaces, and i don't want to drag half of Windows 7 files and registry just for that. Beta5 references only Windows.UI.Immersive.dll, you can rename/disable it in System32 if you don't want any kind of Metro totally and it would still work and you may save ~1MB of RAM also. And note that whole Metro platform (immersive launcher, broker, app manager, monitor service, hook service, search, charms, apps, etc) is not loaded and won't ever be. Only some libraries (twinui and windows.ui.immersive) will be loaded. I agree metro is unpleasing, but you don't meet with those bits constantly.