Highlights
- Windows 11 start button support
New
- New default Immersive skin for Windows 10/11 (#538)
- New icons and installer artwork (#31)
- Modern looking icons for Apps folder on Windows 10/11
- Added option to always single-click folders (#692)
- Added option to never highlight modified settings
- Added option to use a custom search hint
- Added option to hide "see more results" in search
- Added option to set custom commands for controls
- Added option to single-expand any Win7 style item
- Added option to open folders to their true path (#555, #653, #691)
- Added option to customize Pinned folder location
- Added new option "Enable accelerators" (#447)
- Added new option "Require Alt key for accelerators" (#117)
- Added -reloadsettings command line switch (#1157)
- Allow shutdown even if limited admin doesn't have shutdown privilege (#1015)
- Properly handle Windows updates during shutdown (#1250)
- Get nightly (prerelease) builds from Github
- Show Open-Shell version in start context menu (#888)
- Use more convenient format for color settings (#82, #1141)
- Use Segoe Fluent Icons font for modern settings icons on Windows 11
- Updated help (#1173, #880, #524)
- Help: Added skinning tutorial
- Help: Added custom button tutorial
- Show start menu next to taskbar by default
- Setup: Recognize also /h and /help parameters (#1278)
- Setup: Don't install Classic IE by default
- Don't show first-time settings dialog if settings were imported from XML already (#1319)
- Improved menu animation timing
- Added menu animation fps logging
Fixes
- Fixed taskbar texture on Windows 11 (#1230)
- Fixed sleep operation on systems with connected standby enabled (#719)
- Fixed corrupted icons in second column (#1088)
- Fixed image rendering on Windows 7 (#1023, #90)
- Fixed search box focusing (#1068)
- Fixed Aero button alignment on multiple monitors (#1310)
- Fixed handling of automatically hiding taskbar on multi-monitor setup (#908)
- Proper start menu alignment in case of vertical taskbar Windows 11 (#1231)
- Make sure tray buttons are properly positioned when custom start button was created (#1232)
- Properly scale modern task icons (#518)
- Properly scale default skin font according to DPI (#1110)
- Properly round font size (#1547)
- Use proper modern settings icon (#495)
- Don't track usage of Open-Shell modern settings folder (#744)
- Don't show Windows Shell Experience Host in list of frequent programs (#1164)
- Fixed branding string on Windows 11 (#878, #960, #1063)
Full Changelog: v4.4.170...v4.4.190