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lostmsu 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: 2025 was a disaster for Windows 11

Not anymore, not entirely. Start menu and taskbar are now in a separate thing I believe. Welcome to 20s!

p_ing 8 months ago [–]

Explorer.exe is still the shell -- the shell is defined at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Shell, if you want to look (or replace it).

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