Hate the Windows 11 Taskbar?

[canetoad]

There's a fix - it's free and it works.


EXPLORER PATCHER
Feature summary

Choose between Windows 11 or Windows 10 taskbar (with labels support, small icons and lots of customization).
Disable Windows 11 context menu and command bar in File Explorer and more.
Open Start to All apps by default, choose number of frequent apps to show, display on active monitor and more.
Choose between the Windows 11, Windows 10 and Windows NT Alt-Tab window switcher with customization.
Lots of quality of life improvements for the shell, like:
Skin tray menus to match Windows style, make them behave like flyouts and center them relative to the icon.
Choose action when left and/or right clicking the network icon.
Revert to the Windows 7 search box in File Explorer, or disable Windows Search altogether.
Disable immersive menus and use mitigations that help you run the real classic theme without glitches.
Learn more about all the functionality offered by this program starting with this article in the wiki, here.

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher#readme

The download link two thirds of the way down the page under the bold heading 'How To?'

[d_r]

1. There's a fix

It's free and it works

https://www.linux.org/pages/download/

[TheBlackAdder]

2. It should be noted that just because it's on Github does not mean malware is not embeded in it.

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Always use caution when using 3rd-Party mods.

You don't know the origin, many use open-sourced code which is rife with tracking and malware code. No one really evaluates open-source, they just use it and assume others are monitoring it. Sonotype found over a billion sections of malware in open-source projects, as the development communities have been infiltrated by hackers and nation state actors. The only people really tearing apart OS code are college academia, hackers and rogue state actors.

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