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Bring back Windows 11’s missing features with this awesome free app

If you’re accustomed to long-time Windows creature comforts such as the ‘Never Combine’ taskbar, upgrading to Windows 11 can be a big adjustment. Microsoft changed or eliminated a lot of those features in pursuit more modern, streamlined interface, and in doing so made it harder for some of us to get work done.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. With a free, open-source program called Explorer Patcher (), you can bring back many older features of Windows without missing out on Windows 11’s benefits. It only takes a few minutes to set up, and is brimming with options that

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