Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools - eviltoast
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
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Microsoft appears to be blocking even more apps for customizing the user interface in Windows 11 24H2. Users noticed that ExplorerPatcher joined the recently blocked StartAllBack app.

TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2.

One more reason to switch to Linux

  • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
    481·
    7 months ago

    Why? Why even fucking do this? What do they get? And why is their default ux so aggressively terrible?

    • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      69·
      7 months ago

      They want you to use the search instead of a functional interface. That’s why they keep making the interface worse.

      It lets them spy on you through bing, allows them to fill the results with ads, and lets them hide system applications unless you know exactly how to find them.

      It’s also them gearing up towards funneling the entire UX through copilot for largely the same reasons.

      The entire goal is to flip the operating system from the slave of the user to the master of the content.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        7 months ago

        Yeah that sounds probable, and I’m worried what happens to all the data on windows machines when they do.

      • AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        81·
        7 months ago

        Almost plausible, except their search doesn’t fucking work either. I have repeatedly had the experience of typing the exact name of a program I know I have installed only for it not to appear in the incremental results. Sometimes programs will appear if you type less than the full name but then disappear if you dare type all of it. Sometimes the only way for me to find programs I want is to use an alternative launcher like the one in PowerToys. The last time start menu search actually worked was Windows 8.1. I fucking hate it, and it has driven me to make the leap to Linux for my personal computer, I am loving it so far.

        • twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          That’s… Exactly what I was talking about. Master of the content.

          I am fully aware that the windows search hides things that you are actually searching for. Particularly if they are system preference apps, and it always goes to bing first regardless.

          Also, I bailed as well. I use windows for work and school, otherwise I’m on linux.