ExplorerPatcher’s latest maintenance release restores a broken weather widget and a raft of Windows 11 tweaks — but the fix also lays bare the fragile ecosystem that surrounds third‑party shell mods, where changes made by Google, Microsoft, or antivirus heuristics can suddenly break a feature...
Windows 11’s Widgets board is an underused but powerful way to surface the information you need without opening full apps — and adding, customizing, or removing widgets is straightforward once you know where to look and what to expect. This guide distills the practical steps for adding and...
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ExplorerPatcher’s latest pre-release restores the long-missed File Explorer title bar, patches several Start menu and taskbar regressions, and moves under-the-hood hooking to a new library — but it also ships with a short list of known quirks and a reminder that modifying core shell behavior...
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A small local-news photo page showing a Jaguars–Saints football moment—paired with a Bluefield, West Virginia forecast calling for mid‑70s highs, rising rain chances through the afternoon, and a cooler, showery evening—captures a bigger reality of game day in 2025: fans jump between highlights...
For those who have long envied the versatility of MacOS widgets, or perhaps reminisced about the glory days of Windows desktop gadgets, the landscape of desktop customization on Windows has often felt lacking. The modern Windows widget system, as of Windows 10 and Windows 11, largely confines...
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At first, it seemed like a quaint little feature: a sunny (or not-so-sunny) peek at today’s weather, living right on the left side of your Windows 11 taskbar. But for many users, the weather widget has become something of a digital weed—sprouting up after every major update, stubbornly clinging...
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There’s something uniquely comedic, and mildly tragic, about how an operating system as venerable as Windows—framework of Fortune 500s, playfield of global gamers, and home to that guy with 137 browser tabs open—doesn’t really come with a weather app. Not the way your iPhone or MacBook lovingly...
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Imagine opening your Windows 11 weather widget expecting to find the forecast for the week, but instead, you're greeted with a reading so astronomically high that it promises to melt not just snow, but every last molecule of the Earth's surface! Well, that was the surreal "scorching" reality for...
Initially, everything was working fine. After about a week, any of the gadgets that required an internet connection did not work. For example, I add the weather gadget (which previously worked fine) and it reads "cannot connect to service." In addition, the google calendar gadget reads...
Theme that changes w/ the weather gadget in Windows 7 based on the temperatures shown?
Anyone ever heard/seen anything like this?
I thought it would be a pretty cool gadget and my wife wanted it.
Just curious.
Thanks.