Timeline for Windows 11 Canary Channel: explorer.exe not working
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| May 29, 2023 at 11:55 | comment | added | harrymc | @dlatikay: It has destroyed enough Windows installations on our site to be sure that it's far from harmless. | |
| May 29, 2023 at 10:33 | comment | added | dlatikay | but does it really do binary patching, in the sense that it modifies the contents of executables and binary libraries? looking at the github sourcecode shows that it seems to limit itself to policies, the registry, shell interaction using the api, hooks, and calling into existing executables. | |
| May 29, 2023 at 7:19 | comment | added | harrymc | @trlkly: Another possibility is using some heuristic to locate the right spot to patch, which might succeed or not. | |
| May 29, 2023 at 1:22 | comment | added | trlkly | A decent patcher should have done some sort of hash or similar to check and make sure it was patching a file that is known to work. | |
| May 28, 2023 at 7:56 | comment | added | harrymc | I believe that Windows 11 and 10 are similar enough that you can do Repair Install of Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade or use the Media Creation Tool. Mind your backups, just in case. | |
| May 28, 2023 at 0:33 | comment | added | tommyaq | Before I manually backup (I've found that the Open... menu in apps does work, so I'll have to use that) and downgrade to Windows 10, do you have any suggestions that might restore the system without a full wipe of my data? | |
| May 28, 2023 at 0:29 | vote | accept | tommyaq | ||
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| May 28, 2023 at 0:11 | vote | accept | tommyaq | ||
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| May 27, 2023 at 16:23 | history | answered | harrymc | CC BY-SA 4.0 |