How can I open windows explorer 11 with look like of windows explorer 10 ?

robrazil · Dec 8, 2023

Hi everyone.
Everyone knows that the windows explorer 11 has the look like of the image below, highlighted in red:

But if I open the windows explorer 11, in left column to choose "Panel Control", in address field on top of the window I to click in ">" simbol before "Control Panel" and to choose "Home", so the windows explorer 11 will open with the look like of windows 10, highlighted in red::

So, I would like to know how can I open the windows explorer 11 with look like the explorer of 10 directly ?
I saw in Task Manager that on the command line column:
"C:\Windows\explorer.exe" /factory,{5BD95610-9434-43C2-886C-57852CC8A120} -Embedding
Based in that, I created a windows explorer shortcut and put in "Destiny" all the text of the command line above but didn't work. The windows explorer not opened.

I appreciate any help.
Sorry for my English but Google translator is helping me.

x BlueRobot · Dec 9, 2023

As far as I know you can't, unless you use a third-party program like OpenShell or ExplorerPatcher.

xilolee · Dec 9, 2023

Hi!

Try to open the control panel, then click the up arrow (near the path edit box):

robrazil · Dec 9, 2023

x BlueRobot said:
As far as I know you can't, unless you use a third-party program like OpenShell or ExplorerPatcher.

Thanks for the suggestions but I already use OpenShell to make w11 look like win10 but it doesn't make the file explorer look like win10.
I also know ExplorerPatcher and I know that it not only does this but also many other changes, but I thought of a simpler way like just inserting commands into the file explorer shortcut and it will open like in figure 02, without having to change the records of windows.
I thought about creating a script to automatically do the procedure described above in the second image and convert it into an executable file to do that automatically.

robrazil · Dec 9, 2023

xilolee said:
Hi!

Try to open the control panel, then click the up arrow (near the path edit box):

View attachment 94609

Dude... I am looking for a way to do that automatically in once time when to click on explorer shortcut, but thanks.

x BlueRobot · Dec 9, 2023

As already mentioned, you can't change it with just registry changes, most of the GUI is drawn programmatically so you're either going to have to write your own shell, register those as COM components - I believe this how most of the Explorer shell is registered - or take the ExplorerPatcher approach which is very fragile and relies hooking on UI functions.

robrazil · Dec 9, 2023

x BlueRobot said:
As already mentioned, you can't change it with just registry changes, most of the GUI is drawn programmatically so you're either going to have to write your own shell, register those as COM components - I believe this how most of the Explorer shell is registered - or take the ExplorerPatcher approach which is very fragile and relies hooking on UI functions.

Thanks but the point is when we uninstall the ExplorerPatcher his keys in the windows records stay there and I don't understand why that. It is very strange and suspicious for me. I had to use the "restore point" of windows to go back the windows records before ExplorerPatcher instalation.
I will continue looking for a way to do this automatically, perhaps using a script in a BAT file or in Python converted into an executable file.
Maybe, the ExplorerPatcher files in Github will can help me to find the answer.

x BlueRobot · Dec 10, 2023

robrazil said:
Thanks but the point is when we uninstall the ExplorerPatcher his keys in the windows records stay there and I don't understand why that. It is very strange and suspicious for me.

That's because he hasn't included any clean up steps for the registry keys, there is nothing strange or suspicious about that.

robrazil said:
I will continue looking for a way to do this automatically, perhaps using a script in a BAT file or in Python converted into an executable file.

You can't do this with a batch script as already mentioned. You're going to have to learn C since all of the Win32 API is written using that, likewise Explorer Patcher is the same, it's written using C.

robrazil · Dec 12, 2023

Well... I got it with ChatGPT help...

I asked to reate a python script to do in windows de following steps:
1- To open the file explorer;
2- In File explorer window opened, in left column, to choose "Panel Control" option;
3- Press alt+up arrow.
So, the ChatGPT gave me this script below:

Python:

import os
import subprocess
import time
import pyautogui

def open_file_explorer():
    os.startfile("explorer.exe")

def navigate_to_control_panel():
    time.sleep(2)  # Wait for File Explorer to open
    pyautogui.hotkey('alt', 'd')  # Focus on the address bar
    pyautogui.write("Control Panel")
    pyautogui.press('enter')

def press_alt_up_arrow():
    time.sleep(2)  # Wait for Control Panel to open
    pyautogui.hotkey('alt', 'up')

def main():
    open_file_explorer()
    navigate_to_control_panel()
    press_alt_up_arrow()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

I set the time.sleep command for 1 and changed the pyautogui.write("Control Panel") command to pyautogui.write("Painel de Controle") because my OS is in portuguese language and that was opening the Control Panel in a second window.
I also asked the ChatGPT how to install Python in Windows and the I.A. taught me.
Then, I used the "Auto PY to EXE" GitHub project by Brent Vollebregt (brentvollebregt) to converter the pyton file to an exe file.
Now the process is run auto.

xilolee · Dec 12, 2023

I'm gonna ask him the lotto magic numbers!

robrazil · Dec 12, 2023

xilolee said:
I'm gonna ask him the lotto magic numbers!

The ChatGPT answered:
"I'm sorry, but I cannot predict or provide the winning numbers for future lottery drawings, including Mega-Sena or any other lottery. Lottery numbers are typically drawn randomly, and there's no way to predict the outcome. It's essential to remember that playing the lottery is a form of gambling, and the chances of winning are usually very low."

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