CenterTaskbar VS ExplorerPatcher

GitHub - mdhiggins/CenterTaskbar: Center Windows Taskbar Icons

Note this is a Pro feature so after 30 days you'll need a license, you can get Steam keys for about $15. If you also want to center your taskbar icons you can either use TaskBarX: https://github.com/ChrisAnd1998/TaskbarX or CenterTaskbar: https://github.com/mdhiggins/CenterTaskbar. Note both of these conflict with StartIsBack if you use that.

This is the link: https://github.com/mdhiggins/CenterTaskbar

translucent tb to make taskbar transparent and centertaskbar to center the icons

You can use https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to change the hotkey

> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table

It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'.

Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps (https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher), but it's not an ideal solution

ExplorerPatcher

I had more problems with it being wide, merging all app windows in a single icon, showing only icon rather then app title, and not being able to move to top of screen

That may be fixed with https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher which restores win10 bar, there's no builtin solution to any of the above afaik

Thanks for letting me know. I looked into it, and apparently it's still even possible to activate on later versions of Windows with registry edits and helper software: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/discussions/167

Not going to install something that seems so vague, but I do use ExplorerPatcher [1] on my Windows 11 machines to basically re-create Windows 10 UI and fix all of the annoyances I have with Windows 11. I've got the old right click menu, the old task bar, the old alt-tab interface, pretty much the whole thing. Only reason I use Windows 11 over Windows 10 is because Windows 11 seems to handle my triple monitor setup better, especially when waking up from sleep.

[1] - https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher