Regardless of what you use your computer for, the taskbar is something you interact with every day. It is a component that is at the heart of Windows 10, and Microsoft is finally making an important change that will be welcomed by many users.
With the release of Windows 10 build 21343 the other day, we’ve already seen some of the visual changes that Microsoft is bringing to Explorer. But on Windows 10 21H2, the company is also releasing the taskbar for the explorer.exe process in its own library. It is a change that means that upgrading Sun Valley to Windows 10 should help improve stability and eliminate problems with Explorer that result in taskbar crashes, as is currently the case.
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The change was noticed by Twitter user Albacore – who describes himself as “looking at the software upside down when I find time”. They highlight the fact that Microsoft has already implemented the taskbar in its own library (taskbar.dll), although the change is not yet complete.
When fully implemented, separating the Explorer taskbar would help prevent crashes or crashes in the File Explorer or the taskbar affecting the other.
On a follow-up tweet, Albacore continues to say:
Explorer parts being moved to a separate * library *! = They getting their own * processes *
Changes like this help with internal code organization and the ability to iterate quickly, they have no implicit stability benefits
As WindowsArea.de suggests in its news report, the change may not be just about stability. The fact that Explorer is receiving a visual update based on a different structure may require a change.
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