Hello, I would love to know if there is a way to permanently disable system file protection on windows 10 so shell32.dll can be replaced with the modified one. What I did is set SFCDisable to 1 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon but that did not work, and I was unable to boot the system after replacing shell32.dll. Which means that turning off file protection via registry is not an option while replacing a system protected file on windows 10. Disabling driver signature enforcement did not work either, I tried both via command prompt and from windows recovery environment. It seems like its official now that modding shell32.dll is not possible in latest versions of windows.

Is there any solution to replacing shell32.dll on windows 10? Or can anybody else confirm that its not possible? Just to get things clarified once and for all.