[BUG] Start menu style Windows 10 Full Screen

[hiranokite]

Windows Version: 21H2 Build [22000.527]
ExplorerPatch Version: [22000.493.42.18]

I upgraded from 10 to 11 just to test the new Windows 10 start menu, but when i apply the Windows 10 style, I could access the menu only one time after pressing the WIN LOGO on keyboard (if click on start button on taskbar not happens), full screen 10 start menu show up one time after a delay of 1-2 seconds, but after that i cant access the menu again without apply the 11 style and back to 10 style.

After some tests i discovered that it seems a bug with FULL SCREEN START MENU, as we no longer have the option to change the view mode, the only alternative I had was to create the key on REGEDIT to force the menu always in small mode.

1. navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows
2. new key name Explorer
3. new DWORD-32 ForceStartSize set to 1 to small start menu (2 = full screen, to reproduce this bug)
4. restart explorer or reboot

hope this can be fixed.

[valinet]

Yeah, I haven’t tested that, the solution for now is to use it as a menu. Unset that policy and it will display as a menu by default.

[hiranokite]

Idk if this thing: $de${c34c7785-5518-473a-91c2-252e95bfe3c6}$start.tilegrid$windows.data.curatedtilecollection.tilecollection is unique to my install or not

its unique, my vm is that
$de${ad5613bd-63b1-40ab-8ef3-08c1b0c3ee38}$start.tilegrid$windows.data.curatedtilecollection.tilecollection

[hiranokite]

\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\Cache\DefaultAccount\$de${c34c7785-5518-473a-91c2-252e95bfe3c6}$start.tilegrid$windows.data.curatedtilecollection.tilecollection\Current\Data. It's byte 26. 0c (12) means 3 columns, 10 (16) means 4 columns, aka "Show more tiles". Change that byte and restart File Explorer.

thanks for the explanation, I was able to enable it easily now

[valinet]

Yeah, that $de${c34c7785-5518-473a-91c2-252e95bfe3c6}$start.tilegrid$windows.data.curatedtilecollection.tilecollection thing doesn't really matter, as EP will offer option in the GUI to enable/disable this, I match just the $start.tilegrid$windows.data.curatedtilecollection.tilecollection\Current part which seems to be unique enough not to get in the way of other things. I am testing it now, seems to work fine.

[hiranokite]

nice 😀

[hiranokite]

@valinet everything working, thanks for the great work ❤️