When restarting Explorer from Properties, taskbar position is reapplied only when it differes from the previous value

ExplorerPatcher/GUI.c

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ BOOL g_darkModeEnabled = FALSE;
 static void(*RefreshImmersiveColorPolicyState)() = NULL;
 static BOOL(*ShouldAppsUseDarkMode)() = NULL;
 DWORD dwTaskbarPosition = 3;
+DWORD dwInitialTaskbarPosition = 3;
+
 BOOL IsHighContrast()
 {
     HIGHCONTRASTW highContrast;
@@ -799,7 +801,10 @@ static BOOL GUI_Build(HDC hDC, HWND hwnd, POINT pt)
                                     GetWindowsDirectoryW(wszPath, MAX_PATH);
                                     wcscat_s(wszPath, MAX_PATH, L"\\explorer.exe");
                                     Sleep(1000);
-                                    GUI_RegSetValueExW(NULL, L"Virtualized_" _T(EP_CLSID) L"_TaskbarPosition", NULL, NULL, &dwTaskbarPosition, NULL);
+                                    if (dwTaskbarPosition != dwInitialTaskbarPosition)
+                                    {
+                                        GUI_RegSetValueExW(NULL, L"Virtualized_" _T(EP_CLSID) L"_TaskbarPosition", NULL, NULL, &dwTaskbarPosition, NULL);
+                                    }
                                     ShellExecuteW(
                                         NULL,
                                         L"open",
@@ -2083,6 +2088,7 @@ __declspec(dllexport) int ZZGUI(HWND hWnd, HINSTANCE hInstance, LPSTR lpszCmdLin
         }
     }
     GUI_RegQueryValueExW(NULL, L"Virtualized_" _T(EP_CLSID) L"_TaskbarPosition", NULL, NULL, &dwTaskbarPosition, NULL);
+    dwInitialTaskbarPosition = dwTaskbarPosition;
     HWND hwnd = CreateWindowEx(
         NULL,
         L"ExplorerPatcher_GUI_" _T(EP_CLSID),