Switch my shell

A probably not very well made utility to quickly switch Windows shells.

Okay but why

Because I use explorer7 to restore the Windows 7 shell on Windows 10 21H2 which does not support UWP applications (as of writing this). Most of the stuff still works, but some setings (for example, changing your account profile picture) require you to go into the newer settings app.

The usual process to switch shells would be to:

• Open up a command prompt
• Run taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
• Navigate to the directory where explorer7 is located at
• Run explorer.exe

Or, to run the default shell:

• Open up a command prompt
• Run taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
• Run explorer.exe

I imagine you can already see why this can become a bit tedious after a while.

Project setup

Clone the repository by using:

git clone "https://github.com/azurejelly/shell-switcher"
cd ".\shell-switcher"

Then open the solution on Visual Studio 2022:

start ".\switch-my-shell.sln"