{"id":2288,"date":"2024-03-21T09:59:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T08:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:04:11","slug":"manual-installation-of-explorerpatcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/21\/manual-installation-of-explorerpatcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Manual Installation of ExplorerPatcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/valinet\/ExplorerPatcher\">ExplorerPatcher<\/a> permits to change the behavior of the Windows taskbar. If for some reasons the automatic install doesn&#8217;t work, you can proceed manually:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install it on a computer where the automatic install works<\/li>\n<li>On the target computer, download <code>ep_setup.exe<\/code> from the official website<\/li>\n<li>Open a Terminal and extract the files from the setup using the command <code>ep_setup.exe \/extract<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Several files have been extracted from the setup<\/li>\n<li>Move all the files to <code>C:\\Program Files\\ExplorerPatcher<\/code><\/li>\n<li>From the computer in step 1, transfer the file <code>C:\\Windows\\dxgi.dll<\/code> to your other computer<\/li>\n<li>Use a CMD as an Administrator, then kill Windows Explorer, paste the <code>dxgi.dll<\/code> into <code>C:\\Windows<\/code>, and relaunch Windows Explorer:\n<pre class=\"brush:shell\">taskkill \/f \/im explorer.exe &#038;& copy dxgi.dll C:\\Windows\\ &#038;& explorer.exe<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To manually <strong>uninstall<\/strong> it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open a CMD as an Administrator, then type: <code>taskkill \/f \/im explorer.exe &#038;& del C:\\Windows\\dxgi.dll &#038;& rmdir \/s \/q \"C:\\Program Files\\ExplorerPatcher\" &#038;& explorer.exe<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Open <code>regedit<\/code> as an Administrator, and delete <code>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\ExplorerPatcher<\/code>, and search for any other references of <b>ExplorerPatcher<\/b> to delete<\/li>\n<li>Delete the forlder <code>%APPDATA%\\ExplorerPatcher<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Restart the computer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ExplorerPatcher permits to change the behavior of the Windows taskbar. If for some reasons the automatic install doesn&#8217;t work, you can proceed manually: Install it on a computer where the automatic install works On the target computer, download ep_setup.exe from the official website Open a Terminal and extract the files from the setup using the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,170],"tags":[153,123],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astuce","category-english","tag-astuce","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kodono.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}