ExplorerPatcher is a well-liked third-party customization and tweaking app on Home windows. The newest replace has three main enhancements for Home windows 11 24H2. First up, the creator has made adjustments in order that the app can bypass the Home windows 11 24H2 improve block. Microsoft knowledgeable earlier that 24H2 compatibility block associated to customization apps was slowly being eliminated.

With the most recent replace, the ExplorerPatcher developer notes that they made adjustments to enhance the app’s Desktop Window Supervisor compatibility with the latest Home windows model by renaming the ep_dwm EXE file to ep_dwm_svc.

In the event you bear in mind, Microsoft began blocking third-party apps like this one again in April 2024 throughout Insider testing and the safeguard maintain continued even after normal availability.

When it comes to bug fixes, there are a number of and two of them are associated to Home windows 11 24H2. The function “disable rounded nook” now works on the most recent Home windows function replace.

If you’re acquainted with Home windows 11, one of many many traits of its aesthetics is the presence of rounder corners, which Microsoft has additionally introduced over to its different apps, though there’s nonetheless clearly room for sharper edged tabs too.

So many who disliked the rounded corners on Home windows 11 would depend on unofficial apps like ExplorerPatcher to cope with them. Fortunately, the function now works, as beforehand it could merely routinely uncheck when detecting a 24H2 construct.

The second enchancment is about Easy Window Switcher or SWS because the developer of ExplorerPatcher refers to it. SWS is supposed as an alternative choice to the Alt-Tab performance on inventory Home windows.

In contrast to the “disable rounded nook” possibility, the SWS function nonetheless labored, though its implementation on Home windows 11 24H2 was buggy, as customers skilled slowdowns and lag. Underlying code points can typically trigger issues like these as lately identified by a senior Microsoft engineer.

From the person feedback, it’s obvious that the window switcher function exhibited numerous different points too. One person 03juan documented the a number of issues they encountered in nice element. These included being caught in an infinite loop, excessive CPU utilization, amongst others.

The total changelog is given under:

• Start10: Fastened Pin to Begin on 226×1.4541+ and 261xx.2454+.
• sws: Added assist for 24H2.
• ep_dwm: Added assist for 24H2.
• ep_dwm.exe has been renamed to ep_dwm_svc.exe to get round 24H2 improve blocks.
• ep_dwm: Now all the time unregistered on uninstallation, no matter whether or not it was working in the course of the uninstallation or not.
• Setup: The failure message now shows the related code line quantity that failed, to help in troubleshooting.
• Taskbar10: Fastened disabling immersive menus on ARM64.
• Taskbar10: Fastened Win+X menu nonetheless having Home windows Terminal entries when Home windows Terminal just isn’t put in, that crashes Explorer when chosen.
  • For now, if you wish to have PowerShell entries, Home windows Terminal have to be uninstalled.
• Taskbar10: Fastened Win+X entry clicks doing nothing on 26xxx.5551+ ARM64.
• GUI: Added dropdown indicators to dropdown entries.
• GUI: The language names now embody the nation title. (3f11766)
• Localization: Added Czech translations. (Thanks @9hb, @andrewz1986, and @Panzimy!)
• Localization: Added Spanish (Spain) translations. (Thanks @AlejandroMartiGisbert!)
• ep_taskbar: Added assist for “Present desktop button: Hidden” setting. (#4020) (1be6658)
• ep_taskbar: Fastened a bug that prevented shortcut world hotkeys from engaged on 24H2. (#3777, #4016)
• ep_taskbar: Fastened a bug that prevented the taskbar from resizing correctly after DPI adjustments. (#3796)
• ep_taskbar: Added the next languages: German, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Spanish (Spain), Turkish, Ukrainian, Chinese language (Simplified).
• ep_taskbar: Fastened numerous reminiscence leaks and code/habits inaccuracies.
• ❗ ep_taskbar: Fastened incompatibility with 26200.5603 (Dev), 26120.4151 (Beta), and 26100.4188 (Launch Preview). (#4321)
• ep_taskbar: Now helps all Home windows 10 variations supported by EP (17763/1809+). (aec8c70, 1edb989)

To obtain the most recent model, 22631.5335.68, of ExplorerPatcher, head over to Neowin’s software program tales web page or its official GitHub repo right here.

The ExplorerPatcher creator has additionally cautioned that Microsoft Defender will nonetheless flag the newer variations of the app, and has supplied the next PowerShell to optionally add to anti-virus exclusions:

Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:Program FilesExplorerPatcher"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "$env:APPDATAExplorerPatcher"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:Windowsdxgi.dll"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:WindowsSystemAppsMicrosoft.Home windows.StartMenuExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy"
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath "C:WindowsSystemAppsShellExperienceHost_cw5n1h2txyewy"

Keep in mind although, that Defender serves to guard your system from harmful malware just like the lately reported Lumma, which impacts almost 400,000 programs worldwide. So should you do add exceptions manually, make sure that to not let a harmful quarantined menace out.