Windows 7, shown at PDC, has one cool feature… the SuperBar! It is a bigger task bar that loses the text (hmm… can anyone say OSX dock?), and is better for touchscreen computers. It also has plenty of transparency. Anyways, Microsoft passed out a build of 7 at PDC to attendents. This build, however, doesn’t include the SuperBar. Most thought that enabling it was a lost cause. However, this person didn’t. Say hello to the SuperBar in 6801.

Here’s the important part of the post:

Simply download a copy of a tool I whipped up for either x86 or x64 (untested thus far), drop it into your Windows\ directory and execute the following commands as an Administrator in a command prompt window:

• takeown /f %windir%\explorer.exe
• cacls %windir%\explorer.exe /E /G MyUserName:F (replacing MyUserName with your username)
• taskkill /im explorer.exe /f
• start unlockProtectedFeatures.exe

After changing the protected feature lock state, you can re-launch the shell by clicking the Launch button.

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