Impact: The actual layout setting from Windows Settings -
Personalization - Start is ignored and the "Default" layout setting is
always used when displaying the Windows 11 Start menu on 22621-based
builds when the setting to disable the "Recommended" section is NOT
used in ExplorerPatcher Properties.
Description: The issue has been addressed by remembering the current/
previous setting and using that when setting the height of the pinned
area when the setting to disable the "Recommended" section is NOT
used in ExplorerPatcher Properties, as opposed to the previous behavior
where a hardcoded value was being used.
Impact: Failure to check against a NULL value and dereferencing it
leads to a crash in `explorer.exe` with fault offset 0xfc69 on
22621-based OS builds. This happens when right clicking certain system
tray icons, like "Epic Games Launcher" when using the Windows 11
taskbar.
Description: The issue has been addressed with improved checks: a check
against NULL values is performed before attempting to work with the
data the variables might point to.
The final Windows 11 22H2 that is shipped to users is OS build 22621.
Unfortunately, I updated EP some time ago to 22622. This creates a
discrepancy between the OS build most people have and the version of
EP that they might have installed. Furthermore, I currently test EP
against OS build 22621. To make things more clear, the next version of
EP will have the major build number set to 22621.
In order to have EP use version 22621 from now on and not prevent
updating from EP 22622... to EP 22621..., I devised this workaround
where the EP version is kept to 22622 as far as updates are concerned,
but the internal build number of EP really is set to 22621.
In the future, if we want to bump the EP version to 22622 again, a
regular change in `version.h` will have the setup patcher insert a `!`
as the first character in the hash part of the version string, which
tells the updater to display that version as a real 22622 build and not
artificially decrement it to 22621.
The only slight inconvenience is that, when the next update arrives,
people will be told they upgrade to EP 22622... still, but they will
receive an EP 22621... build. But at least the updater will work and
detect the new version. From there on, subsequent versions will be
shown as 22621 in the notification if the build number for that version
really is 22621.
A nasty bug was sometime occurring where both explorer and the widget
host process could hang; this often happened when explorer was
restarted. The reason this happened was because the widget host
process could hang waiting for the "Lock_EPWeather_Instance" lock. This
was a global lock that made sure only one instance of the widget could
be created.
The idea of the global "Lock_EPWeather_Instance" lock was, of course,
pretty bad, but I chose it because I couldn't figure out/didn't want to
deal with passing an EPWeather "this" instance to WebView2 or
NetworkListManagerEvents functions. Bad decision.
This patch addresses this bug, by providing a generic object
which holds a reference to EPWeather "this" on which I build event
handlers for WebView2 and so on. Since these now contain this
reference, they cannot be static anymore, thus I switched to dynamically
allocating them and managing them throughout their lifetime using,
of course, reference counting. This is the proper solution.
Thus, this bug and any similar ones should now be fixed.
This is so that we avoid a situation where the browser was looping on
trying to display the error page. Each navigation request was
erroring out, and the error said something along the lines of
"Your computer went to sleep". Indeed, this bug could be reproduced by
hibernating the computer and then waking it up - it seemed to occur
pretty frequently, especially on battery, when the power budget is more
constrained, and thus the speed of the PC as well. Hopefully, this
commit and the previous one addresses this issue.
Valentin Radu