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Taskbar customizations don't work anymore

bug

Describe the bug
With latest update of 22H2 (1 March 2023) removed the ability of taskbar field transparent.
No error but taskbar field is black colored.

Area of issue
Taskbar

To reproduceGo to settings. Select Taskbar field tab. Select Taskbar field ...

No launch

Hi,When I had a working installation in a bugged windows box, I've decided to install a fresh windows 10.When it came to open shell installation, no double click, compatibility mode, run as admin produced a result : just nothing, no opening window, n...

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MSI?

I’m desperate for an MSI version of Open Shell for distribution via GPO. I’ve tried extracting the MSI from the EXE file but I always get an error message. Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the MSI or have any suggestions on creating one?

Open Shell Toolbar

How can I remove the toolbar from my files?

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Show Current menu items above Pinned items

feature request help wanted

hi can i move Current menu items above Pinned items?
any help will be appreciated
maybe some skin editing tricks?
thanks
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Disable Bredcrumbs Windows 2019 Server

How to circumvent this problem with breadcrumbs not deactivating in Windows 2019 Server?
It's been quite a while since I last used that Windows version, and I don't remember if I disabled it back then. This was probably about 2 years ago since then.

I ha...

symbols zip file

Hello. I installed the app and love it. I noticed there is a symbols zip file in the release menu. what is it for?

Problem using Open Shell to open Excel workbooks

I've run in to a weird problem using Open Shell under Windows 10. One can have Microsoft Excel load files, such as PERSONAL.xlsb, located in a designated folder (XLSTART) when it starts. I have shortcuts to some Excel workbooks pinned to C:\Use...

Open Shell vs. Windows 11

I have Win11.
I use OpenShell and Valinet ExplorerPatcher (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher).
Everything works perfectly.

Open Shell vs. Windows 11

While not a direct answer to your question, this might help. Avram Piltch at Tom's Hardware found that to get Open Shell to work with Windows 11 they had to force the Windows 11 Start Menu to align the Taskbar Icons with the left hand corner of the scr...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Hi.
I read that you are learning to code.
I found this very old article by Ivo:

He explains how some of the code works ...

Open Shell vs. Windows 11

I'm testing Windows 11 beta in a VirtualBox environment.
During my tests I tried to install Open Shell Start Menu compoonent but it doesn't work.

My question is: do you plan to develop Open Shell Start Menu for Windows 11?

Kind regards
Andrea

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Well, that was a good 20 minutes to upload.
Phew and Yay. Done. :)

It makes me wonder if people are copying the whole CSM website to their computers for safekeeping.Much like how it was done on Open Shell GitHub. I'm guilty of that too in 2018,I used HTT...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Well, that was a good 20 minutes to upload.
Phew and Yay. Done. :)

It makes me wonder if people are copying the whole CSM website to their computers for safekeeping.Much like how it was done on Open Shell GitHub. I'm guilty of that too in 2018,I used HTT...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Looks good for the most part, I did make some changes since those earlier releases though (and the classic styles), so I'll do a new description.

You can make some further changes if something doesn't seem clear. Also, for the imag...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

I don't see a way to send a private message. Oh well.

To tell you the truth, I've had this text file on my desktop for many months waiting for you to come out with your final skin versions.I guess there never will be a fina...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Very interesting, thanks for that info. I will try that Aero Compatible program, and I might even try to mess around with Blender to see if I can vaguely replicate the appearance. I feel like there has to be some way to balance out the alpha opacity bett...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

I've probably mentioned this somewhere before about the low alpha values when using glass not looking the same on CSM/OSM.
I'll just throw it out there one more time.

There is one other thing which Ivo has happen when there is no glass third party availa...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Hi bonzibudd.
Yep, been a while. Got my first covid shot a month ago. :)

About converting premultiplied back to straight.As I didn't know about it at the start, I would just brighten up the premultiplied image and increase the...

Thread for my new skin w/ tiles (and maybe other stuff)

question chitchat

Hi @CTVCAM8

It's been a minute, I hope you are doing well. I feel like I have gotten to a good place with my Fluent-Metro/Immersive skinning stuff, but I had a question about one thing, which is how you do stuff with Premultiplied alpha. If it's not too c...

Can not install open shell (OpenShellSetup_4_4_160.exe)

bug

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It will be better if you go to this:

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