Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday September 03, 2021 @11:53AM
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Honestly I'm surprised I haven't yet stumbled across a community of people doing this. If I had to guess, there's probably a stumbling block that makes it unsuitable for a lot of desktop use cases that I'm not aware of.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by pacifika on Friday September 03, 2021 @02:54PM
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It used to be the case that directx 9 wouldn’t install, and several software would detect the server is and refuse.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by userbinator on Friday September 03, 2021 @10:48PM
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There are various (mostly non-English) communities making weird chimeric combinations of XP/Vista/7-era OS mods, more recently guided by the leaked source; I don't think they're interested in doing anything legal, but also seem to not be interested in post-Win8 either.
Re:Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?
by selfhoster11 on Friday September 03, 2021 @12:24PM
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I'm pretty sure Retrobar will work with the systray, that is if you're into the classic Windows taskbar experience.
Oh, I'm not the only one thinking this then! That's good to know. For years I've been tinkering at the edges of this by having my own app launcher, and my own desktop widgets, and an explorer style start menu navigation app.
All I need is to hook into the systray (although, do I need that? it's just a distraction), and put together a good/fast app switcher app, and I could ditch explorer.exe and the startmenu app completely.