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Disable the "Recommended" section Fails Occasionally #3313

Open Silver7758 opened 5 months ago

Silver7758 commented 5 months ago

Disable the "Recommended" section fails occasionally by dragging around icons in the start menu. (0:05)

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/assets/46341546/b2a038ca-d80a-421d-a4c6-e09cd41c578e

EP Version: 22621.3527.65.1

OS Version: Windows 11 Education 22H2 Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22677.1000.0

Explorer Version: 10.0.22621.2715

Related Issues:

2754 Recommended section returns after unpinning an item on start menu

2622 Start menu win 11 recommended apps section

2580 On Windows 11, disabled "Recommend" section in Start Menu reappears after rearranging or grouping pinned apps

pyrates999 commented 5 months ago

your version of windows has updates from nov 14/2023: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/november-14-2023-kb5032190-os-builds-22621-2715-and-22631-2715-f9e3e13c-5e98-42c2-add8-f075841ca812

please install the latest windows updates.

Silver7758 commented 5 months ago

your version of windows has updates from nov 14/2023: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/november-14-2023-kb5032190-os-builds-22621-2715-and-22631-2715-f9e3e13c-5e98-42c2-add8-f075841ca812

please install the latest windows updates.

Currently, I don't have plans to do a windows update session as this will close all my current opened workflows. May I ask you to try reproduce this issue and let us know how it goes?

pyrates999 commented 5 months ago

EP isn't tested against older versions of windows updates. Sorry.

atif-me-367 commented 3 months ago

happens to me as well in 23H2

pyrates999 commented 3 months ago

happens to me as well in 23H2

Can you post your windows version and build? You can find out by running winver.

atif-me-367 commented 3 months ago

Its 22631.3958 it seems to occor when i pin or unpin smothing to the menu

Silver7758 commented 3 months ago

Can confirm with the latest Windows & EP, Disable the "Recommended" section fails completely: The "Recommended" section does not hide at all.

EP Version: 22621.3527.65.5 OS Version: Windows 11 23H2 build 22631.3958

pyrates999 commented 3 months ago

Try the latest pre-release: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases

And set windows defender to exclude the following before installing the pre-release:

  1. C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher
  2. %APPDATA%\ExplorerPatcher
  3. Directory that you downloaded ep_setup.exe to
Silver7758 commented 3 months ago

I've tried that, and yes, now it hides the "Recommended" section mostly.

However, it still fails when dragging around icons, pin/unpin tiles, etc. (Back to the original problem in this issue.)

EP Version: 22621.3880.66.4 OS Version: Windows 11 23H2 build 22631.3958

pyrates999 commented 3 months ago

Did you reboot after installing the EP version here?https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/tag/22621.3880.66.4_3c50ea3

pyrates999 commented 3 months ago

I also found this:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/remove-recommended-section-from-start-menu-is-not/ba6c469e-565b-4eb1-9d75-12ba0dcc75c3

Removing the recommended section seems to be a group policy option. I wonder if EP is just setting a registry key to do this.

pyrates999 commented 1 month ago

For those struggling with this, try reading this comment for an answer: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/3788#issuecomment-2409920011