Is there a way to temporarily disable explorerpatcher?

[wikibamxd]

Im trying to return to a game that i didnt play in a long time and everytime i tried starting it i would receive a "suspicious program" warning, and i tried with everything that i had and the one causing it was explorer patcher.. ( the game is digimon masters online)

[pyrates999]

try this:

1. rename C:\Windows\dxgi.dll to C:\Windows\dxgi.dll.old
2. open up task manager
3. kill explorer.exe
4. run explorer.exe

when you want to re-enable:

1. rename C:\Windows\dxgi.dll.old to C:\Windows\dxgi.dll
2. open up task manager
3. kill explorer.exe
4. run explorer.exe

[ahmadalam]

Windows 11, version 24H2 blocks installation until it's disabled, which is why I came here to find out how. However renaming the C:\Windows\dxgi.dll file did not work; needed an admin account to do this. Restarted Explorer a good few times, but it wouldn't budge. In the end, I had to uninstall it.

[pyrates999]

Yes, you have to uninstall EP before you upgrade to 24h2. Which this discussion was not about. This was about temporarily disabling EP for other reasons.

[ahmadalam]

Not needed: "Which this discussion was not about.", title states otherwise "Is there a way to temporarily disable explorerpatcher?". I wanted to disable it temporarily so I could get past the 24H2 update dialogue box wanting it to be shut down. Anyway, may not reinstall it, I work across 4 PC's and keeping it updated is now simply too much hassle, turn on one PC after a few days and you're prompted that it's been disabled because it keeps on crashing etc.

[Amrsatrio]

@ahmadalam That's the way it is today. Microsoft keeps removing features that EP resurrects. We fight back my adapting our patches to their updates. The problem is, Windows updates automatically monthly while EP doesn't. If I add auto updates to EP, I don't trust myself like if someone happens to hijack my GitHub account or other maintainers', it could be a large scale IT meltdown.

So sorry that it happened to be the situation today. It is kind of expected considering those are Windows 10 remnants that should not be there in 11 in the first place.

[ahmadalam]

Sad but true. Microsoft shouldn't have such a dictatorial attitude, you have my deepest sympathies, good luck with your endeavour.