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Hello, On Windows 11 Explorer, enabling the legacy command infrastructure (via StartAllBack or Open-Shell) causes Explorer to permanently instantiate a top command surface. Once this happens, reverting to stock Win11 binaries does not remove the bar — Explorer continues to allocate the command host, which is then rendered using the Win11 WinUI CommandBar. Key observations: The bar is not drawn by StartAllBack or Open-Shell Swapping Win10 explorerframe.dll breaks the nav pane but does not remove the bar shellstyle.dll hacks (height=0) no longer apply This confirms the surface exists independently of explorerframe and classic theming I’m not trying to stop legacy commands from being registered — I’m looking for a way to suppress or collapse the WinUI CommandBar host (height/visibility/layout), even if the surface itself still exists. Does anyone know: which component owns the WinUI CommandBar layout for Explorer? or whether it’s possible to force-collapse it (analogous to shellstyle hacks in Win7–10)? Any pointers (symbols, classes, binaries) would be appreciated.

Thank you for the response. I'm aware of the OEM licensing forbids the execusion of SetupComplete but I'm not aware of client os, could you please expand ? Any non-business will be client OS that means essentially any client image. This doesn't seem right.

Thank you for the response. I selected the OEM folder on the ready page yet my SetupComplete.cmd never ran. Any ideas ?

@JFX Thank you for the update. This program is so essential, I can't image install without it. Thank you for making it. One question, I used the $OEM$ folder with SetupComplete.cmd inside but it never ran, Like the drivers/unattend dedicated tabs, can we also have dedicated tabs for SetupComplete, Firstlogon.cmd etc where we could specify the locations of the files and program make them available to Windows setup ? Thank you for your great work. Highly appreciated.

Thank you for the response billmcct. I searched the WD website and found the old version of the driver from 2011, installed it and it did not solve the issue. I also got one from Windows update that seemed identical to the one downloaded from WD website.

Yes, I would but the issue is the "safely remove the device" option is non-existent in explorer and systray option is grayed out and I don't want to just pull it out without first properly stopping the HDD. It has important data on it I can't afford to lose.

Hello @Cocodile Thank you for the response. The device is fine, SMART reports no issue, I can transfer files to/from device without any issues. Furthermore, the same HDD doesn't have problem on another Windows 8.1 PC.

Hello, For some unknown reason I am seem to be missing the driver for WD passport 25E1 external drive. Device manager -> https://i.postimg.cc/3NV1X1t8/Capture.png This has not happened before I'm not sure how the driver went missing. Can anyone has any idea how to resolve this or maybe share the relevant .sys file from driverstore folder ? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks for the support @Dixel but this library caused another issue. When I launch Opera, it won't come up and crashpad debug log says not a valid win32 app. I downloaded api-ms-win-core-localization-obsolete-l1-2-0.dll and renamed it to api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-2.dll and now it seems to be working. Haven't tested youtube/download/upload or MB pages yet but will test and report back. Many thanks to @yoltboy01 @Dixel @mjd79 & @UCyborg for the kind help. You guys rock. Edit: Everything seems to be working normally, except for the scrollbars. When I move the scrollbars to move page up/down, browser gets resized instead.

I looked everywhere but strangely couldn't find it. I don't know what went wrong, can't believe a system dll is not available on the web.

Thanks. Yeah, my system is updated till September 2023 (only October updates are not installed) Okay I tried the steps as shown in the video for Opera but unfortunately the result is the same. When I copy DWrite.dll and launch Opera, it complains about missing api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-2.dll I think this is some kinda runtime library so I installed all C++ runtimes, 2005-2022 to no avail. I already have .Net 3.5 and 4.8 so I'm out of ideas. Also, it's kinda weird to be not able to find a Windows .dll online. I looked everywhere but couldn't find this api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-2.dll Nonetheless, thank you for the help, Your support is highly appreciated. Nonethe

Thank you from the core of my heart for helping me out here. I'm sorry but I did as instructed and when I launched Opera from the shortcut with --no-sandbox flag enabled, it complained about missing api-ms-win-core-localization-l1-2-2.dll I looked around on the dll sites but couldn't find this library. Any other ideas ? No matter what becomes of it, I'm truly grateful to you.

Yeah, I understand it needs to be modded and accompanied with some libraries from Windows 10 but I'm no techy and I can't do it on my own, I need help.

Latest Opera working for everyone except me :crying:

Ah! apologies, I just used the last PM thread we had and didn't notice that you left the conversation. Creating new PM thread now.