A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
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A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
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Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
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Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#3Seeing the title and the domain I instantly knew whose blog post this is...
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#4Maybe large swaths of users wouldn't download enhancement suites if you actually listened to them? It took like 3 years to support the basic feature to "never group tabs" in the Taskbar -- that's been supported by previous versions of windows for decades. That's why I downloaded patches.
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#5Frankly, it is really annoying when developers working at one of the large closed-source platform oligopolists blame their users for trying to work around the deficiencies (or even outright hostile "business model" optimizations) in their software by whatever scant means are left to them: maybe if Microsoft didn't keep removing good functionality and stopped forcing bad "features" on everyone, fewer people would see a need to install and use these extensions that are being scapegoated here for the lack of satisfaction in Windows updates.
Just look through the comments on this article to see people pointing out how Microsoft keeps removing options for how people can do this in less risky ways, or even ideas for how Microsoft can improve the safety of these extensions (which aren't all exactly right but I will note that if Microsoft embraced these more and provided an official loader--not one that limited the access but merely coordinated the installation--this is easily solved with the same kind of "safe mode" I designed for shell extensions on jailbroken iOS devices).
To quote one of the comments:
> Not just this article, but far too often when articles such as this are written, about widely used 3rd party tweaks, and the commenting strongly supports the tweak in question, but MS charges forward that “all these enthusiasts are wrong, we will continue our way” is telling of how far out of touch the Win dev team is away from its user base.
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#6I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint, but those are needed because they keep changing things. Start All Back is one very popular explorer.exe patch that makes the Windows 11 taskbar function a lot like Windows 10. For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again.
I've also made an explorer.exe in-memory patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons in Windows 10, it injected itself to WndProc and set the specific message to zero. In Windows 11 it's now a setting, so I don't need that anymore.
Now I'm investigating an explorer.exe patch for Windows 11 to speed up wallpaper animations. Which cannot be configured at the moment, there is only one setting to turn off all animations but no setting to speed up the wallpaper fade in animation.
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#7I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint, but those are needed because they keep changing things. Start All Back is one very popular explorer.exe patch that makes the Windows 11 taskbar function a lot like Windows 10. For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again. I've also made an explorer.exe in-memory patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons in Windows 10, it injected itself to WndProc a…
> flashing taskbar buttons
Oh geez these are annoying! I've spent hours trying to find a setting to disable the flashing taskbar on the Teams client on my corporate issued Win10 laptop. The best I've found is to keep the Teams client minimized in tray just to avoid this behavior.
It boggles my mind there's no way to disable this feature that is so distracting it almost makes working impossible whenever I forget to kill the Teams client window. And really goes to show why people need to resort to these hacks.
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#8I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint, but those are needed because they keep changing things. Start All Back is one very popular explorer.exe patch that makes the Windows 11 taskbar function a lot like Windows 10. For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again. I've also made an explorer.exe in-memory patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons in Windows 10, it injected itself to WndProc a…
Do you have to turn off all system file modification detection to do these hacks? Sounds risky.
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#9I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint, but those are needed because they keep changing things. Start All Back is one very popular explorer.exe patch that makes the Windows 11 taskbar function a lot like Windows 10. For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again. I've also made an explorer.exe in-memory patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons in Windows 10, it injected itself to WndProc a…
Do you have to turn off all system file modification detection to do these hacks? Sounds risky.
That is the weird part. My explorer.exe patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons was functioning with Microsoft Defender turned on for the whole lifetime of Windows 10 I used it. I didn't even need a UAC prompt to patch the memory. Nothing detects it, even though it goes and adds assembly instructions to three locations in the memory with WriteProcessMemory etc. It's not working by injecting DLL, it just modifies the running explorer.exe process memory so it will not modify files.
You can see the code here: https://github.com/Ciantic/DisableFlashingTaskbarButtons/tre... (there was also C version but I changed it to AHK)
Re: A jump into the middle of an instruction from nowhere (2023)
#10I know it must be frustrating from Microsoft's standpoint, but those are needed because they keep changing things. Start All Back is one very popular explorer.exe patch that makes the Windows 11 taskbar function a lot like Windows 10. For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again. I've also made an explorer.exe in-memory patch to disable flashing taskbar buttons in Windows 10, it injected itself to WndProc a…
> For one thing, it allows you to move the taskbar again.
But but... think of their support costs if people accidentally move the taskbar!
They have to remove your options or they'll starve!