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Post by powerplayer on Nov 24, 2021 17:18:13 GMT -8
My win11 is completely demetrofied which is good but at the same time i do wonder cant the settings app be ported to a real exe file or maybe a .net program??? did anyone try?
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Post by anixx on Nov 24, 2021 17:52:36 GMT -8
Metro apps ARE exes.
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Post by ihatemetro on Nov 24, 2021 18:31:15 GMT -8
But they cannot be run directly by just clicking on it in explorer. |
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Post by powerplayer on Nov 25, 2021 10:05:38 GMT -8
But they cannot be run directly by just clicking on it in explorer. Exactly i mean we convert it to an exe that is understood by all windowses we need somebody who can convert it to .net maybe the classic theme restorer guy can do it |
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Post by leet on Nov 25, 2021 10:29:52 GMT -8
My win11 is completely demetrofied which is good but at the same time i do wonder cant the settings app be ported to a real exe file or maybe a .net program??? did anyone try? It is impossible to do without source code. These fake EXE's that Metro apps use are actual Win32 executables, but they're compiled against Universal Windows Platdorm libraries. This means that regardless of the changes you make, they will try to laod the UWP framework when you start them. In the case that your PC is demetrofied, this initialization will fail because the required libraries are not present. There's also a fundamental problem with the idea itself: why disable metro and then try to get a metro app working? |
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Post by powerplayer on Nov 25, 2021 11:15:24 GMT -8
why disable metro and then try to get a metro app working? Because it was already disabled i just deleted all the apps in the windowsapps folder like i always do on win10 normally metron would work on win11 u need to ctrl alt delete out of the OOBE hi we are setting up your windows on some computers metro works on mine it didnt . there might be a tool that does converting back and forth www.howtogeek.com/250041/how-to-convert-a-windows-desktop-app-to-a-universal-windows-app/ |
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Post by leet on Nov 25, 2021 12:40:26 GMT -8
No that won’t work. The link you gave is for wrapping a Win32 app inside a UWP app package. The executable itself doesn’t actually change at all. You could for example convert the UWP Spotify app to the normal Win32 one just by extracting the app package. But that only works for apps that were compiled against Win32, and later converted to UWP apps. So you can’t convert UWP apps that use actual UWP components (for example, the UI) into standalone Win32 applications. They depend on UWP. |
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Post by powerplayer on Nov 25, 2021 13:07:18 GMT -8
No that won’t work. The link you gave is for wrapping a Win32 app inside a UWP app package. The executable itself doesn’t actually change at all. You could for example convert the UWP Spotify app to the normal Win32 one just by extracting the app package. But that only works for apps that were compiled against Win32, and later converted to UWP apps. So you can’t convert UWP apps that use actual UWP components (for example, the UI) into standalone Win32 applications. They depend on UWP. What about adding old stuff from previous windowses say windows vista desk.cpl or the non-metro win8 stuff ? i fixed most things with custom regs + handy dandy dpi changer www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Other-Desktop-Enhancements/Windows-10-DPI-Fix.shtml (use their win8 fix ) because the regs did not work they added back whatever the killed metro had in there and reactos dfesk.cpl still loads fine you can change resolution on it . But it would be nice to have some classic features on a demetrofied install |
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Post by powerplayer on Nov 28, 2021 1:59:25 GMT -8
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Post by leet on Nov 28, 2021 2:07:59 GMT -8
The CPL's won't get migrated by anyone because they're outdated. No one is going to go through the trouble of fixing those to fully work on modern Windows, as most people use SCT anyway so they can just use UWP settings or the SCT built-in desk CPL.
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Post by powerplayer on Nov 28, 2021 8:11:21 GMT -8
The CPL's won't get migrated by anyone because they're outdated. No one is going to go through the trouble of fixing those to fully work on modern Windows, as most people use SCT anyway so they can just use UWP settings or the SCT built-in desk CPL. The outdated reactos cpl in my thread works for changing resolution winvista contains your deskn.cpl and much much more i cant see a reason it cant be hexedited to work with resolution monitor settings etc .... |
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