Flashy Windows 7 bits protected by elaborate scheme, workaround

They were probably wrapped in there so that the team wouldn’t have to compile two separate builds (which simplifies lots of things).

Builds are no longer branched.

Thanks for posting this, but I ran into some issues. The last step isn’t working for me, it’s saying explorer.exe is not a valid win32 application and I can’t get explorer back up. There was an error running the unlock application.

Ignore that last comment, I got it working :)

How’d you get it fixed? I’m having the same problem.

Too buggy/slow for general consumption yet? Great work :)

How how the application texts are showing up on my taskbar when using this? Can’t seem to hide them like from the screenshots :\

I get the following error whenever I try to enable “unlockProtectedFeatures.exe”:
“Program too big to fit in memory”

I’m running 7 on a virtual machine with 1GB virtual ram.

If you get the .net error, make sure your in the c:\Windows directory, not the system32 directory when executing the commands.

Nm, got it. Had to change option to “Always group”.

Hey, can anyone get peek to work?
Thanks

Everything is fixed. Make sure your first command is “cd /Windows/”

Can anyone get peek to work?
Thanks

Whoops, double post

Hey this is great! Thanks!

@Dan to group the items and to get rid of the text:

1. right click on the taskbar –>properties
2. taskbar grouping: always
3. use small icons: yes or no depending on your preference

just an FYI (in case it’s helpful). for this step “start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe ” I had to do a “cd ..” to get up 1 directory (into the Windows dir).

Works great !!!

thanks dude

Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t it easier to just set the registry keys Explorer checks right after it fails the machine name check?

What Bryant said makes sense.

Or maybe they were offering a job to the first person who cracked it. lol.

Thanks for this Rafael. :)

Wow sweet, Thanks :)

Rafael I gotta visit this site more often, found lots of gems here

Thank you so much. I love you ^^

havent gotten it to work, i cant seem to get the first two steps to work, and then the last step is says the program has encountered an error :? anyone care to shed light?

The only problem with this is that it seems to disable UAC. For most people, that’s not a problem, but it just disabled my Live Mesh. x.x

Is there any way around this?

Wonderful :) Thank you !

so you can install Windows 7 beta on Microsoft Virtual PC software, right? I don’t wanna have to clear my harddrive to install the beta.

Oh yeah, I should probably mention… it appears that the Mesh client actually is running in the background, as I can still access my Mesh folders and connect to the PC remotely. (By the way, Mesh remote desktop is actually a lot faster with this new taskbar enabled. Microsoft has a winner!)

I tried that with the exact same buildversion – an no unlockProtectedFeatures.exe to use. I’m in the correct folder, C:\Windows, and all other steps worked perfectly. But still the last command will not work since the .exe is not there.

Bloggliv, that’s the piece you have to download from this site. RTFM ;)

i have the same problem with the unlockprotectedfetures.exe. i cant run it from the cmd window with admin rights. i go in to c:/windows and click on it and it will do it thing then the taskbar will go away and wont come back i have to use taskmang but that bing up the vista taskbar. and the cacls line of code say it failed

Wonderful! Thanks . . . why microsoft do this? its funny . . . but come on is microsoft! :-P

They probably protected these features to a) prevent them from being leaked, and b) prevent the problems if the features had to be cut for whatever reason. Remember, Sinofsky said that they are looking to be “feature complete” by beta, so that all that has to be done is the polish, and usual bug fixes.

You know what? I feel real stupid right now. Ignore my previous comments.

Great!!!!!!!!!!

OK i’m having trouble and don’t know what to do ? can someone help me please email me at depawka@live.com or respond back here

Hi,

Here is the easy way. Simply copy below to a batch file and copy both the batch file and the exe to your desktop.

Then simply right click on the batch file and click run as admin. Done! It does all the work for you. :)

Enjoy,

Will

See image in case this does not come out right here on the blog:

http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/9350/w7scriptzs2.png

@echo off

copy /Y %userprofile%\Desktop\unlockProtectedFeatures.exe %windir%

cmd.exe /c takeown /f “%windir%\explorer.exe” && cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G %USERNAME%:F

cmd.exe /c takeown /f “%windir%\unlockProtectedFeatures.exe” && cacls %windir%\unlockProtectedFeatures.exe /E /G %USERNAME%:F

taskkill /im explorer.exe /f

cd %windir%

start /w %windir%\unlockProtectedFeatures.exe

start explorer

pause

exit

Hey to above i ran your thing like you say but i get this error
http://i38.tinypic.com/4g0tv4.png
[IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/4g0tv4.png[/IMG]

Parekr, that’s very odd.

How about if you just double click on the batch file without running as admin first?

Worked for me on one of my PCs. Guess it’s because I’m not running with default settings.

Take Care,

Will

still get same error mabie upload the bat file u used to rs or mediafire for me please and thanks

It probably wasn’t enabled because of the facts you mentioned. On the other hand, I think it’s a good idea to enable this stuff even if it’s not complete. User feedback early on can be quite handy when you are still working on a particular feature.

Hello Parekr,

You should run this in C:\Windows folder not C:\Windows\system32

as in ?

Nice find! :)
I can see why they hide the taskbar pretty well. The 6801 taskbar does’t show the same well designed superbar that they showed at the pdc. It has the not-so-good extra button on the side of each window instead of the right click menu.

hey does anyone know how enable the jumblists on the start menu?

I got it working i followed what they said on site then walla :) done

Parekr did you copy the file to the correct directory?

ok then Parekr :)

You are the man!
Gracias!

it doesn’t work for me :( i maked all this steps and explorer.exe doesn’t start :( after LogOff/Restart, the taskbar is the same :( what should i do, i have Build 6801 – do i need that domainname?

This is an old version of the new taskbar, there was a session about how they were designing it to take that side button out. they probably couldn’t fit the newest taskbar into this revision, which is why they hid it. so all the fancy features like jumplists and those snazzy thumbnail switching options aren’t there.

it says – unlockProtectedFeatures has stopped working

How do i change the colour, it’s grey now?

i need some help please :( can anyone give me some help via Team Viewer? pls

Misaki, Did you copy the “unlockProtectedFeatures.exe” into C:\windows\ & run the command promt from there as well?

Thanks a bunch mate! working like a charm!

Ive followed the steps perfectly, it tells me that the program is not compatible with this version of windows… bla bla bla
what do i do now?

unhandled exception has occurred in your application…..im on 32bit win7

Nero, no because i don’t know how to do that, i doned like this tutorial said and gives me: unlockProtectedFeatures has stopped working

getting the same prob as Misaki. All the steps work until the last, then I get unlockProtectedFeatures has stopped working. Then does the whole error reporting thing.

I just figured it was MS finding this and issuing a cease and desist or something. If there is a solution, would be glad to find out!

Thx a lot for this great hacking, It’s work for me very well, but how to hide the window title in the new taskbar to look exactly as PDC demo?

yeah, same problem as Tab7… tells me the program has stopped working

Resize open windows in win 7.6801 by dragging (Drag n shake) right,left or on top
Preview : http://www.jcxp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=31178

i reinstalled windows and now works :D thank you Rafael for sharing this with us :D

unlockProtectedFeatures has stopped working

Thanks got it working here now

Cool, got it working after a lot of access denied folders. Went into safemode, copied the file to c:windows, restarted and worked like a dream!!! Great job gentleman!

What I did to get it working was disconnect from the internet, then you run the file and viola! Also I disabled user account control as a precaution. Thanks, now im looking forward to the next build.

hallo.
program stop respodning. if I dont close the explorer program is runig normalny but nothing hapend!

Wow! Cool. Trying it out……

http://i34.tinypic.com/s3cxtt.png

Any Suggestions…?

how do i fix this “Program too big to fit in memory”
it always shows up when i try to start unlockprotectedfeatures.exe

People this really works, i alot of issues tryin’ to get this to work and finally i really got i working and it is AWESOME!!!

The unplug internet solution does not work, the appz dont care about beein’ online!

I tried to use the new feature “troubleshoot combatility” and that helped me alittle, i got a error message from the application instead of the “….. this not respond” but it really didnt unlock the feature.

Then i started the app on my desktop and “…… can’t find explorer.exe” and it actually created by automatic a explorer.exe to my desktop then i started it again from the desktop and it showed me a window… with radiobuttons which let me to chose unlock the hidden bar… but it didnt really activate it, then i deleted the explorer.exe that the software created on the desktop and drag the file to the windows folder then started it clicking on it and it worked!

Hope this works!!

Thanks for the file, great work!!

Proble, with running the
“@echo off
copy /Y %userprofile%”
file published by war59312

Copy both the file (named fx patch.cmd) and unlockProtectedFeatures.exe to the windows directory.
Start a command prompt and jump to the windows directory.
Run “edit patch.cmd” and remove any annoying characters that does not belong there.
Save the file and run it. Voala!

Whoa man, you’re awesome Rafael!

ok to get the code and programe to work just reinstall windows 7 and do it right after its done installing

I get the unlockProtectedFeatures has stopped working error as well. Any time frame on a fix for this? Thnx for the hard work.

you da man….nice one. thank you.

For those getting the Application stopped responding issue… Go in and Manually change the permissions on Explorer.exe.

I’m running this in a VM as a test so i just gave all accounts full control and than was able to run it no problem.

Hope that helps.

Hi,

O.K my batch file works just fine. The problem is that the blog here adds some stupid chars to the start of it. No my fault.

Though I did make one little mistake, but it only effected people who have spaces in their user name.

Anyhow, I have made it even easier.

1.) Download the correct version below and save the file to your desktop.

32bit: http://rapidshare.com/files/160422438/unlockProtectedFeatures_x86.exe

or

64bit: http://rapidshare.com/files/160422412/unlockProtectedFeatures_x64.exe

2.) Double click on the file from above so that it runs. If UAC kicks in then of course click on “Yes” to allow it to run.

Note: This will kill explorer.exe so make sure you have saved everything your working on first.

3.) You should now see something like this:

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3201/successgx9.png

4.) “Unlock Protected Features” should be chosen already so simply click the “Launch” button.

5.) You should now see the new task-bar. Go ahead and close the batch file and the “Libraries” window.

Now you might want to keep the installer “unlockProtectedFeatures_x86.exe” or “unlockProtectedFeatures_x64.exe” in case you wish to turn the new task-bar off. Just run it again if you wish to turn off the task-bar and of course this time choose “Lock Protected Features”.

But yes, you can now go ahead and delete the other two files that are now on your Desktop: install.cmd and unlock.exe as they are no longer needed.

Enjoy,

Will

PS: It’s just a winrar SFX self extracting archive. If you don’t believe me simply right click on exe and choose extract. Then look at the batch file. Of course if you want to be sure that I did not include a virus just run a MD5 or whatever on unlock.exe and you will see it matches the files posted here. :)

Got it working after a few failed attempts. Don’t know what exactly I may have done wrong in the first place. Its working now. Thanks for the work around Rafael.

war59312’s app worked great. Thank you, the new taskbar is awesome!

war59312’s app give me the same error message. It tells me your app has stopped working, etc etc.

Mario,

Then more than likely it’s some software that is running on your PC that is causing the issue. Anti-virus perhaps?

As I tested this many times on a new clean install and it works great.

Trying running my application is safe mode. Should work, not tested, not home at the moment to test.

Take Care,

Will

Chris, thanks for confirming it worked for you. :D

The x86 version doesn’t seem to be working. (box pops up saying that it has stopped working) Anyone else having the same problem?

Never mind. Problem solved. Sorry for my stupidity.

war59312,

Thanks that one worked perfectly – couldn’t get it working with the first method.

Thank You!

Hi All,

For those that are having problems, can you please post a screen-shot of my batch file running? Would like to see what it says.

I was able to reproduce the error of unlockProtectedFeatures.exe stop working.

That would happen every time if I where trying to run unlockProtectedFeatures.exe out of the system32 folder.

It should be running out of %windir% which by default is C:\Windows.

Anyhow it looks like this is a bug in unlockProtectedFeatures.exe itself. Not Windows and nothing to do with my pretty simple batch file. I’m just wondering if those that are getting errors from unlockProtectedFeatures.exe are also getting errors in my batch file.

Thanks for trying it out,

Will

XTIZ3, your not that stupid since you figured it out. :)

Tester2. your most welcome, and thanks for confirming.

Ok so I have been getting the unlockProtectedFeatures.exe has stopped working error. Here is exactly what I am doing:
I have command prompt copied to my desktop. I right click it and press Run as administrator.

in C:\Windows I have unlockProtectedFeatures.exe placed in there.

with cmd opened as Administrator I do:

cd %windir%
takeown /f %windir%\explorer.exe
cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G Danny Mayer:F
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe

when I typed unlockProtectedFeatures.exe is when I get the error the program has stopped working.
I am going to try war59312’s method

To get this straight all I have to do is download your version. (already done)

double click it (since it’s on my desktop) and click on unlock then launch. Correct? I don’t have to execute any commands through command prompt?

If that doesn’t work I am going to: Try in safe mode, turn off Avast!, and reinstall on another hdd (I am going to delete my osx86 partition on my bigger hdd)

funny, earlier today this worked on 32 bit but then I installed 64 and I got the stopped working error, tried with no A/V and in safe mode – got a message that ‘no maopping . . username . . had been done” and then the ’stopped working error’ won the last step, however, war’s batch file worked! Had to run as administrator of course. Don’ know why the other method worked earlier but didn’t later on 64, Happy. Thanks Mario and war

Thanks Rafael. Awesome find! I will repost later when I get home.

boy I butcherd that last comment – bad keyboard
Thanks Rafael and thanks War59312

after the second step I got a message saying that no mapping had been done, I assume some mapping was supposed to be done?

anyway, when I got to last step I got the ’stopped working ‘ error – however, running war’s batch file as administrator did work and now I am a hpaay camper.

war59312 you are the man!

war59312
The little do-dads you made there man are perfect, was having hella-time the other way with X64. Thanks for your work on that man its great, BUT, NOW I got my wife wanting Win7 because “It is so pretty with that TaskBar” >.< SO we all know what that means do it or I shall never hear the end of it.
Thanks again man that was great work.
12beers and 6cheers to ya

Thanks War! It works great now!!

Took some bloody key wrestling to get the 64bit edition to work, but once I typed it all in like cacls explorer.exe /E /G MyUsername:F it worked splendid. Great work!

@Rafael the quotes around my name worked! awesome thanks!

war59312 : thank you very much! now it’s working!

Thanks. It would be nice to try on the pre beta Win 7 build

its not work ver 64bit :( PLEASE HELP ME
I get unlockProtectedFeatures has stopped working. Then does the whole error reporting thing.

Worked beautiful when rebooted in safe mode once to apply the change.

Thanks Rafael for another brilliant post.

thanks got it working.

@Thorn

Had same problem on 64.

DL war59312’s batch file to your desktop http://rapidshare.com/files/160422412/unlockProtectedFeatures_x64.exe

right click on it and choose ‘run as administrator’

worked for me

Hi All,

I’ve upgraded from Vista SP1 to Windows 7 (running on VMware). I ran all the steps with no errors. Unfortunately, the new taskbar does not appear for some odd reason. Any ideas?

Regards
M

Well, I dont know if youre intrested or not, but the x64 thing works well on Server 2008 R2 Build 6801 (which leaked some hours ago I think) too :)

I’ve found out that my build is (6589.1×86fre.winmain_win7m2.08042-1634) !!!!! It does not seem the hack will work on this build!

M: That is not a real Windows 7 build, but a modded version of Vista SP1. Only the builds 6519 and 6801 are actual Windows 7 builds, and only 6801 contains the Superbar.

I am downloading Windows 7 build 6801 as we speak. Quick question, Can I install windows 7 without upgrading from an earlier version using VMware?

Regards
M

hey—my shutdown/log-off/restart won’t work.. .it doesn’t hang.. just seems to close running process then sit there like a fresh reboot.. any ideas?

thatnks war59312 your solution worked perfectly for me

I been going through the event log because my laptop seems to be shutting down by it’self alot, and noticed some warnings about possible memory leak in explorer.exe. This could be due to his patch. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing any random restarts. A few other point to the processor failure which is odd because vista doesn’t do this. Dont know if it’s due to the fact it’s pre-beta or if its perhaps the reason why they disabled thie new taskbar in this build in Windows 7. Right now I return the task bar to the normal vista looking one and hasn’t rebooted yet.

Anyone mind telling me how to pin programs to the task bar?

war59312 is the best :]. Your batch file worked just fine.

speaking as a programmer, it is easier to limit and/or disable features than it is to put them in for testing, pull them out again and then put them back in again.

Once in, other apps may code against them. Removing them for a demo version could lead to HUGE headaches when it comes to removing outside dependancies.

It is just easier to hide the UI that isn’t fully up to snuff yet, particularilly if the back end code is stable (and stable does not always means “fully works”, just more a matter of “does not crash everything”)

So they get locked down so that the associated developers can work on them and no one else asks stupid questions about why feature X doesn’t work right while it is being polished.

“XTIZ3

November 4, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Anyone mind telling me how to pin programs to the task bar?”

Just drag and drop

Thanks so much, war 59312. It worked like a charm.

Worked like a charm! Althought I don’t get the Aero shininess because I’m running in VirtualBox….

any suggestions:

http://img359.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1225844573or77030pngrk3.jpg

Much thanks, Mike. I swear I’ve tried it before… Stupidity strikes again.

Thank you. It’s work great for me.
but someone can help me?
My windows can’t restart and can’s shutdown before I run this patch and still now can’t restart and can’t shutdown.

After following all the steps in the admin cmd prompt I get to the start unlockprotectedfeatures.exe and it asks me to ‘confirm file replace: The following file already exists unlock.exe. Would you like to replace the existing file with this one? Yes, Yes to All, Rename, No, No to All, Cancel.”

No matter if I replace or not I am then followed by an error for the file “intall.cmd” which states:

oops.

continued…

Final error states: “Windows cannot find ‘C:/users/alauper/Desktop/install.cmd’. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

Any thoughts?

Aaron

@ ALL: Take ownership of explorer.exe file manually. It works like a charm here, in vmware.
At first i got errors in all my tries. Then i took ownership manually and tried again. Here’s proof:

[URL=http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=windows720081105072108ou8.png][IMG]http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/5545/windows720081105072108ou8.th.png[/IMG][/URL]

war59312: here is a screen shot of my error after downloading the file to the desktop and double clicking it.

Please Help

alauper

war59312: here is a screen shot of my error after downloading the file to the desktop and double clicking it.
http://aaronlauper.spaces.live.com/?_c02_vws=1

Please Help

alauper

TO EVERYONE WITH THE “PROGRAM HAS STOPPED WORKING ERROR”

1. Copy the original explorer.exe to your desktop
2. Copy unlockProtectedFeatures.exe to your desktop.
3. Run unlockProtectedFeatures.exe as an Administrator and unlock the features.
4. Voila! It should work. This took me FOREVER to figure out.

Oh yeah, and then copy the patched explorer back after wards.

war59312,thx for your post at

November 3, 2008 at 7:12 pm

I finally solve the problem “unlockprotectedfeatures.exe” stopped working, it ’s interesting that it involve certain process

1.I follow your instruction and double click the exe
2.after repeating sereval times, it shows that unlock.exe is missed in WINDOWS folder and yet there is a exe call unlock and another called”install.bat” come out and i simply copy “unlock” into WINDOWS
3.Retry and it works!just choose unlock….and launch! Delete install bat. explorer and unlock on the desktop

*it is quite interesting that both quick launch bar and this new bar both exist at same time,just unclick it from RIGHT CLICK on task bar—>toolbar—>quick launch!

In Response to Rob’s post

TO EVERYONE WITH THE “PROGRAM HAS STOPPED WORKING ERROR”

Thanks to Rafael try putting your username in quotes

cd %windir%
takeown /f %windir%\explorer.exe
cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G “Danny”:F
taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe

That should do the trick.

check out http://tr.im/r5g for a installation guide

Thanks you for your great work! Finnaly, I can unlock this cool super bar, what I want to see in windows 7!

cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G “%USERNAME%”:F

I can’t get the above step to work. It says that not mapping has been done. When I continue anyway, when i run “start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe” it says that the program has stopped working. Any ideas?

I can’t get this to work..I keep getting

ERROR: Not all priviledges or groups referenced are assigned to the caller.

You people are just NOT following the instructions properly.

I’ve found another fix!!
Those who downloaded the self-extracting one, the second one, and ran it, it just said some errors, and placed two files on the desktop: unlock and install.
So i took the install file, right click, edit, and delete the ENTIRE second line.
Then, I save, and copy Unlock to C:\Windows
then I run install from the desktop
It works then!

Works fine for me, thanks.

I tried every way to get it to work. I knew to put my username in the quotes and I tried just about everything I could do.

here’s a more detailed explanation.

1. Go to C:\Windows and copy explorer.exe to your desktop.
2. Move unlockProtectedFeatures.exe to your desktop.
3. Run unlockProtectedFeatures.exe as an Administrator, and unlock the protected features.
4. Kill explorer.exe in task manager.
5. In task manager go to File > Run and click browse. This will show an explorer window so we can replace the original file without any hassle.
6. In that window go to your desktop, right click the patched explorer and click copy.
7. Then, go to C:\Windows and rename the current explorer.exe to explorer.exe.bak
8. Then paste the patched explorer.exe into the C:\Windows directory, and then click it and press open, and then ok.
9. Superbar should load right up.

It is just not working for me! I followed precisely the instructions but i get every time this error message in the cmd prompt:
ERROR: Not all priviledges or groups referenced are assigned to the caller.

What should i do?
Here is a screenshot: http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errrormsgjj3.jpg

PLEASE help!

Rob,

I followed your steps and it finally enabled the new taskbar! However, I am not able to copy over the explorer.exe file in steps 5-8 because of permissions so everytime I restart the computer it goes back to the old taskbar.

Any thoughts?

This only works if I REMOVE the “” around my username lol. If I put them there I get an error.

Try right clicking explorer, go into properties -> security -> edit… select your username and click Allow on the full control option. Then you can change the name and move, ETC.

One major concern I have with the new icon based taskbar is that in general, most program icons are either horribly pixelated or too detailed to look clean at a specific resolution.

I use RocketDock, and one of the great features is the ability to use custom .png icons (that look beautiful). Hopefully there will be a similar functionality to the ’superbar’.

I had the same problem alauper, what is happening is windows thinks that the explorer that is on your desktop is the main explorer.exe. What you need to do is open task manager, kill the explorer.exe process. You will now be able to move it, but to move it you need to do it within task manager. So go to File > Run. The run dialog will show, then click browse. Now go to your desktop in the left pane and copy the explorer file to C:\Windows. Then go back to your desktop, and delete the one on there. Then select C:\Windows\explorer.exe and click open, and press okay. Explorer should open and no longer be on your desktop.

just a quick question how do you reverse this and get the old explorer working again

You should have made a backup explorer file. Don’t know what to tell you.

joseph: Open Task Manager, kill Explorer, open UnlockProtectedFeatures from Task Manager, select Lock, and click Launch. There you go.

yea i know that im talking about when i exit explorer through task manager and try to start it up again it says its not a valid win32 application

Joseph, this happened to me but what happened was I ended up trying to load “C:\Windows\system32\explorer.exe” and it didn’t work and it gave me that error. Make sure you are loading “C:\Windows\explorer.exe”.

oh ok i see i forgot to check which directory i was in

Everything works, and thanks for the guide. Except I have one problem, whenever I restart my pc, I have to repeat the process that worked for me (to get the taskbar). How would you make it permanent?

In order for the taskbar to work for me, I had to copy the patch and the explorer to my desktop and run it there… (read from someone here)

Great work! It works awesome-ly =)

My only problem is that when I resume from hibernate, the awesome-bar usually crashes right away, or shortly after… anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks war59312! That file actually worked perfectly, and even when restarted, the taskbar is still there. Much appreciated. Oh, my audio driver doesn’t work, windows says there’s a computability issue, is there a way to make the driver work?

Nice workaround, but I’m trying to figure out of what possible use it is to those of us not on a Microsoft Domain?

Is it only for MS Developers?

war59312’s app worked great here. I couldn’t get the original workaround to work. The original post should be updated to include this.

Graet work Rafael, I am wonderin if others are having problems displaying Desktop Gadgets, it seems that mine are disabled and can’t find a work around to get them to display, any suggestions or is that a hidden feature also?

Great work with the exe, it installs fine but running 7 in virtual pc and cannot activate the aero theme. Can anyone help as I want to see the new peek function.

peek doesnt work at the moment

Does anybody have the jumplist in the start menu working?

Hi guys,
Must have missed a step along the way, but how do I change my domain to one of the specified legal domains?
I get a “cannot connect to active directory…” error.
Anyone?

Thanks,
Guy

Very nice piece of work.
Thnx

the patch from war worked. but i can only see the icons feature, there is no preview only the name of the apps.
this is not a true superbar. it is like a normal taskbar without text.
did i miss something?

@Traveling Tech Guy
You don’t.

Actually read the whole article and follow the instructions.
This is to work -around- the protection, not fulfil the protection’s requirements.

If you love the super bar like I do… but want those task button program name lables back like I did here is how to enable them!!!

Caution this is a registry hack!!!

For each user namely yours.. go to …

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

and find the REG_DWORD entry called…

TaskbarGlomLevel

and set the value to 1 and you will get traditional task button program lables… Set back to 0 to restore default look.

Pay close attention to the button as you hover over it the inital animation is cool and the glowing effect follows your curser… it does this by default but with the Glom on 1 it is much more apparent…

Very Cool…

As far as i can tell from searching this I am the only one to figure this one out… so unless someone can prove someone else found this before 8:01am on Saturday, November 8th of 2008… Its mine!!!

This Reg Tweak was brought to you by, Me

Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast
http://www.mattatobin.com
(site will be back up soon)

Hi mates.

I don’t know if anybody posted this already, I couldn’t read through the whole page.

I made a batch file that makes it simple.

1 -Download the file:

http://cid-f37e0464addf60be.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/enabe|_wintaskbar.zip

2 – Extract to your desktop.

3 – Right click, then “Run as Administrator”

4 – Done! (hopefully)

Worked like magic on mine, took 2 seconds. Remember to select “Unlock Protected Features”

The batch is not perfect so please no throlling. I made it so it could work, nothing fancy nor complicated.

The file is 100% free of virus, but do a scan before if you want to be sure.

Thanks for this incredible find Rafael? or whoever owns the blog.
O’ll be sure to come around oftenly!

Ahem… Bad link!

Updated:

http://cid-f37e0464addf60be.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/enabe_wintaskbar.zip

My bad!

@Matt A. Tobin: It is set to 1 by default……

I just dug a bit deeper… im an idiot :( i was so excited i found something new… well ill keep hunting around in the registry theres bound to be some sort of discovery…

Matt A. Tobin (Idiot)

Well Windows Peek works for me!

Sorry I’ll rephrase, Aero Peek works. I’m not sure why but I can definitely see thumbnails when i hove over the icons.

How did you get aero peek working?

I should have finished reading your sentence. That’s not aero peek. That’s just thumbnails, that everyone can see once they unlock the superbar. Aero peek is the feature that turns all windows (but the one you want to see) into glass. It also turns all windows into glass if you just want to see the desktop.

hey jaznet any way to get a copy iof that file that works with 64bit? if so is it an easy alteration?

disregard last message: for patrons with 64 bit windows 7 simply switch out the file provided by jaznet and put the 64bit version in its place. :)

I tried this SuperBar feature.. I don’t like it. I went back to the explorer.exe we’re all used to.. BUT,… now I cannot right click on open tasks and do anything (nothing comes up .. to close the program)… AND the “X” in the top right hand corner of every window/program is greyed out.

Did this program cause this? How Do I get back the X in top right corner of windows??
(And the right clicking capability to close from the task bar)???

Thanks!

I have done the hack for the taskbar that now works also got rid of the watermark bottom righthand corner .I also found a way to activate windows 7 and it works great also .If you do some google searches you will find what you need .Windows 7 runs great even though it is a prebeta no problems yet .

Thanks for this – worked like a charm and am now enjoying Windows 7, I thought my Dell lappy was on its way out but its running so much faster than it did with Vista.

“Comment by Phate

November 8, 2008 at 5:53 pm

disregard last message: for patrons with 64 bit windows 7 simply switch out the file provided by jaznet and put the 64bit version in its place. :)”

Yeap! that’s pretty much it ;)

for anybody having problems rob posted this and it worked

I tried every way to get it to work. I knew to put my username in the quotes and I tried just about everything I could do.

here’s a more detailed explanation.

1. Go to C:\Windows and copy explorer.exe to your desktop.
2. Move unlockProtectedFeatures.exe to your desktop.
3. Run unlockProtectedFeatures.exe as an Administrator, and unlock the protected features.
4. Kill explorer.exe in task manager.
5. In task manager go to File > Run and click browse. This will show an explorer window so we can replace the original file without any hassle.
6. In that window go to your desktop, right click the patched explorer and click copy.
7. Then, go to C:\Windows and rename the current explorer.exe to explorer.exe.bak
8. Then paste the patched explorer.exe into the C:\Windows directory, and then click it and press open, and then ok.
9. Superbar should load right up.

I have found out a reason why some might not be able to get this hack to work. I have a username with a space and it wasn’t working so I decided to try a username without spaces and the hack worked. I then deleted to new account and the new UI still works. So if you have a username with spaces then make a new Administrator account and apply the hack that way.

What was unlocked with the new “Blue Badge”?
I did see the desktop change and the pan tool for the tablet but I don’t see the others…

i run this in VM ware bout the display is no just like yours
can i install vistas display driver?? windows7 is the same core with vista right?
plz E-mail to me

Thx !

someone please explain step by step, what where and how to do because to try all day and I can and can not

write it : takeown /f %windir%\explorer.exe
cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G %били%:F taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
cd %windir%
start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe ….. Is it correct

just thought you would like to know, the x64 works perfectly. also, thanks =D

taskbar is look like aero but window are not transparent . why ?

Didn’t worked for me, it says cannot find unlockedProtectedFeatures.exe

1 More :)

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Cool…..buddy…

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet :D

Thanks for this info, I’ve just posted a link to this post on my forums so others can get the superbar.

Excellent work finding out how to do this :)

Thank you!

So Windows 7 is basically just Vista. Vista is Bloatware garbage, it isn’t compatible with my dual core AMD 64 and I’m sure Windows 7 won’t be either. It loads and installs but then there’s no driver support..

umm why is anyone even excited about windows 7? It’s windows vista with a new name O.o

i,m fully happy windows 7 6801 is faster than Vista and there is no problem with treibers and hardware, and very stabil.
thanks for all informations.

Любопытно было почитать :) Попробуем-с тоже ответить в ближайших постах.

http://www.adunaphel.nl/zooi/SuperTaskbar%20Unlocker.sfx.rar

I think this program works better.. Not made by me BTW…

http://www.microsoft.com/windows7

This program works better

Я так понимаю, в последнем абзаце как раз таки вся соль и изложена ;)

i want it

Занятно написано, реально все читал как говорится на одном дыхании :)

Thanx alot Rafael 4 everything you’ve done U rock!

i,m fully happy windows 7 6801 is resimler faster than Vista and there is no problem with treibers and hardware, and very stabil.
thanks for all informations./…

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Does anybody know where I can download the RC version 64bit windows 7
cheers

dont work on my computer unlockedprotectedfeatures.exe doesn’t exist

pleaseeeeeeeeee help !!!

worked but dont see any resullt the same

Отлично написано.

Восхитительно, добавил в букмаки.

Спасибо почитал.

The feature that shows the webpages across the bottom of screen doesnt work can someone help. Would like all the extra features accosiated with windows 7 Thanks