ExplorerPatcher incompatibility (explorer.exe crash loops)
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No files, tests, or code entry points are named. Start by locating Windhawk's installation and crash-warning flows, then check how it could detect ExplorerPatcher; done means users are warned that the two tools are incompatible.
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Description
Hi, just a quick suggestion, when crashes happen or even during WHawk's installation maybe try to detect C:\Program Files\ExplorerPatcher (default path) or idk, maybe in a more dynamic manner, to warn the user the apps are incompatible.
For many days I had issues with windhawk seemingly 'randomly' crashing explorer process in a loop. Somehow today I randomly found 1 random comment online mentioning ExplorerPatcher also modifies explorer process which makes them incompatible, no matter which windhawk mods you use. Beyond the crashes I also could not use 50% of the themes / they would load broken UI.
Some windhawk mods cause the crashes to happen more frequently (e.g the 'show folder sizes' mod) but even with very few mods it's still not usable due to crashing explorer constantly. And I didn't even remember I had installed ExplorerPatcher - it is a great tool - but I removed it and WHawk works fine now.
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