This third-party Windows tweaker finally lets you uninstall Edge and set a classic File Explorer style

v2.0.81.0 (major update) • Mar 31, 2025

• designed a new logo, with colors dinamically adapting to your theme (light or dark); you might have to rebuild the icon’s cache for the icon to update everywhere in the system – you can use Wintoys for this: Health section > Icons cache
• revamped the welcome experience (it’s now fullscreen and includes a shortcut for system restore)
• added a neat titlebar app icon animation that will play when the app opens
• added system settings restoration: you can now undo all the changes to the state when the app was first opened; even settings changed by the system itself will be detected
• redesigned sorting and filtering dropdowns across all pages and improved their performance
• added storage system property on the Home page, with on-hover details about partitions, disk type, disk interface, disk model and disk serial number
• added uptime system property on the Home page
• system properties such as storage used space or video card driver will update periodically to reflect the system changes in real time
• settings that require an explorer.exe restart will no longer automatically restart it, letting you to choose the right moment; you will be informed that a restart is requierd with the Action required button from the bottom left, which once clicked will offer you the option to restart explorer.exe
• File explorer section changes and improvements:
  • added Classic interface option (on Windows 11)
  • added options to set Home and Gallery items (on Windows 11)
  • changing Hidden system files and items or File extensions options no longer require a refresh of File explorer
  • the toast to reopen File explorer will now only appear if a window is already opened
• added Digital Markets Act option under Tweaks > System; unlocks exclusive features for EEA (European Economic Area), such as being able to uninstall Edge, but only by launching the uninstaller from a Microsoft signed process like Control Panel or the Settings app; this option does not change your region settings
• added End task option under Tweaks > System (on Windows 11)
• added Home page in settings option under Tweaks > Ads (on Windows 11); this will remove the Home page in Windows settings app
• added new Super-user section under Tweaks with the following options:
  • God mode – moved from the System section
  • Developer mode – new
  • User account control – moved from the System section
  • User choice protection driver (UCPD) – new (hidden if the service is completely missing)
• added an option to receive a notification whenever a startup app is enabled (on Windows 11)
• changing This PC and Recycle Bin options no longer require a manual desktop refresh
• changing Clock with seconds option no longer requires an explorer.exe restart on Windows 11
• the displayed video card will now always be the high power one if present (external or dedicated)
• changed validation behavior for all content dialogs due to consistency reasons (now the action button will be disabled until all validation requirements are met)
• replaced error reporting service: AppCenter is being shutdown by Microsoft on 31st of March, so it was replaced by Application Insights
• updated UAC option icon to match the system one
• improved applications size calculation accuracy and sent an email to Gaben to fix Steam not reporting the size of games according to Windows guidelines
• replaced the teaching tip with a tooltip so a click is no longer needed for the information to be displayed (consumes less memory as well)
• the Cleanup section was moved at the top of the page for a more convenient access
• the junk cleaner now supports Opera and Brave browsers, and crash dumps files in the Error reporting category
• added entrance missing animations for apps and services pages (will play when the pages are set as a landing page)
• the option to unpin everything from the taskbar was removed due to the new UCPD service that blocks changes to certain registry keys
• the uninstall option will be greyed out for Windows Security, App Installer and Settings app because they can no longer be removed using official Windows APIs
• repair tool logs dialog now has a smaller font for better readability where there’s a lot of text
• a native restart API will now be used to restart Windows when a restart is required to apply some settings
• the Ultimate performance power plan option will now be disabled on unsupported devices
• removed Watermark option under Tweaks > Desktop due to Microsoft making it impossible to safely remove it in recent versions of Insider Preview

Stabilization and bug fixes

• fixed an issue where the window size was going out of bounds of the screen on smaller resolutions
• fixed a library issue when loading scheduled tasks (noisy scheduled tasks that require a password to be disabled will be ignored due to security reason)
• fixed Action required button not hiding when reverting the wallpaper quality setting to the original value
• fixed an issue where buttons with progress rings were not preserving their space (meaning their size would change to fit the progress ring)
• fixed an issue with system model and manufacturer not being correctly identified on laptops
• fixed an issue where Delivery optimization option was displayed as disabled when Devices on the internet and my local network option was selected in Windows settings app
• fixed an issue where the divider between sections in a tooltip for services would appear when there is no content to separate
• fixed a random infinite loading when uninstalling modern (Store) apps
• fixed not correctly setting Windows update mode when Windows DisplayVersion is not found in the registry
• fixed an issue where the apps page will crash on devices with Umm Al-Quara calendars
• fixed an issue where the apps page might not load due to versioning containing characters
• fixed an annoying refresh button animation when uninstalling an app or changing a service
• fixed not logging all home page errors for system properties in the EventViewer

• Alt + Tab might make the app freeze; this is a known WinUI 3 bug that has not yet been fixed by Microsoft, you can find more details about the issue here

• removed Powershell SDK dependency and reduced app size from 65 to 48 MB
• updated packages