Manual Installation of ExplorerPatcher

ExplorerPatcher permits to change the behavior of the Windows taskbar. If for some reasons the automatic install doesn’t work, you can proceed manually:

1. Install it on a computer where the automatic install works
2. On the target computer, download ep_setup.exe from the official website
3. Open a Terminal and extract the files from the setup using the command ep_setup.exe /extract
4. Several files have been extracted from the setup
5. Move all the files to C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher
6. From the computer in step 1, transfer the file C:\Windows\dxgi.dll to your other computer
7. Use a CMD as an Administrator, then kill Windows Explorer, paste the dxgi.dll into C:\Windows, and relaunch Windows Explorer:

   taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && copy dxgi.dll C:\Windows\ && explorer.exe

To manually uninstall it:

1. Open a CMD as an Administrator, then type: taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && del C:\Windows\dxgi.dll && rmdir /s /q "C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher" && explorer.exe
2. Open regedit as an Administrator, and delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ExplorerPatcher, and search for any other references of ExplorerPatcher to delete
3. Delete the forlder %APPDATA%\ExplorerPatcher
4. Restart the computer