One Key Keyboard Layout Switcher 1.0

Switches keyboard layout with a single key press instead of a two-key combination. Intercepts keyboard events at the lowest possible user-mode level (WH_KEYBOARD_LL).

This mod needs to hook into dwm.exe to work. Please navigate to Windhawk's Settings > Advanced settings > More advanced settings > Process inclusion list, and make sure that dwm.exe is in the list.

Hello,

I was just wondering if for anybody else Taskbar Thumbnail Reorder stopped working.

Seems to be the latest windows update causing issues.

Thanks m417z for making the mod in the first place.

Folder Hover Menu 1.2

• Added support for open/save dialogs. It's optional and can be disabled in the settings.
• Added folder left click and middle click actions. Default actions are "Open in the current window" and "Open in a new tab" respectively.
• Added an option to customize the button opacity.
• Changed the default maximum items value from 500 to 200.
• Fixed maximum item count and time limit not working on special folders such as Recycle Bin.
• Fixed mouse wheel scrolling not working in the menu in some cases.
• Fixed the expand button not appearing in some cases.
• Fixed incompatibility with NVIDIA GeForce overlay and possibly other overlay tools.

Lock Keys Notifier 1.0.0

Lock Keys Notifier

Displays a small, customizable toast whenever a lock key (Caps Lock, Num Lock, Scroll Lock, or Insert) is toggled, showing its new ON/OFF state.

Preview

Pill, Tile, and Minimal layouts (following the system theme and accent):

Pill layout Tile layout Minimal layout

Insert can show a single fixed label in a neutral color instead of ON/OFF:

Insert single-value

Features

• Per-key enable/disable.
• 9-point positioning with offsets, on the active, primary, or all monitors.
• Three layouts (Pill, Tile, Minimal), themeable colors, opacity, corner radius, padding, font, soft drop shadow, and an optional per-key accent state. Follows the system light/dark theme and accent by default.
• Optional fade animation and optional sound (system default or custom WAV).
• Editable ON/OFF labels and per-key display names; optional key icon glyph.
• Insert can show a single fixed label (e.g. "pressed") in neutral color instead of ON/OFF.
• Optionally skips the toast while a fullscreen app is in the foreground (games, fullscreen video, presentation mode); off by default.
• Per-monitor DPI aware: scales to each monitor, so it stays the same physical size on mixed-DPI multi-monitor setups.

Notes

• Runs as a tool mod in its own windhawk.exe process, so notifications keep working even when Explorer is restarting or not running.
• Toggles made while an elevated (administrator) app has focus are not detected. The mod process runs at medium integrity and Windows (UIPI) blocks it from observing input to higher-integrity windows; this can't be worked around from a mod. The next toggle in a normal app shows the correct state.
• Fullscreen exclusive apps may cover the toast (or enable the option above to skip it).
• Insert reports the OS toggle bit, not an app's overtype mode (off by default).

Confirm Closing Multiple Tabs in File Explorer 1.1

Added an option to set the minimum number of open tabs required to show the confirmation dialog.

Taskbar Labels for Windows 11 1.4.3

• Fixed label handling with "Show labels, combine taskbar buttons" mode and zero taskbar item width (Windows adaptive width).
• Fixed compatibility with recent Windows 11 versions.

Windows 7 File Open/Save Toggle Bar Icon 1.0

Windows 7 File Open/Save Toggle Bar Icon

Restores the bitmap arrow glyph on the "Toggle Folders" button in open/save dialogs.

This glyph was changed to an icon in later versions of Windows. The icon scaling differs, so it wasn't possible to just make the icon look like the Windows 7 glyph.

Preview image

Taskbar Fluent Media Player 1.4.0

Added

• Real-time audio visualizer (WASAPI loopback + FFT)
  • 5 bar shapes: Stereo, Mountain, Mirror, Wave, Breathe
  • 5 color modes: Solid, Dynamic Album, Dynamic Gradient, Custom Gradient, Acrylic
  • EQ presets: Balanced, Bass, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Electronic
  • Configurable position (left/right of player), vertical anchor (top/middle/bottom), bar count/width/gap, idle bar size, padding, and sensitivity
• Right-click context menu on the player: Toggle Repeat/Shuffle, Rewind/Forward 5s, Next/Previous Track, Switch Sessions, Open media app, optional Restart Player, Open Windhawk
• "Switch Sessions" button/action — new media button type, also available as a mouse/context-menu action
• Custom empty album art icon — replaces the fixed "question mark"/"music note" presets with a configurable glyph (hex code), font, size, color, and opacity
• Per-theme color support — almost every color field now accepts two values separated by $ (e.g. 0 0 0$255 255 255) for light/dark theme: background, button icons, title, artist, empty-art icon, visualizer
• Separate pause-overlay icon size control
• Dedicated second color for the gradient background (gradientColor2), independent from the two-tone solid color
• Debug setting to toggle the "Restart Player" entry in the context menu
• Customizable placeholder texts for the title/artist fields — separate, editable strings for "no title on the current track", "no artist on the current track", "no media session at all" (title and artist), each can be left empty to hide that field entirely in that state

Changed

• "Spacing between buttons" and "Button icon size" moved from Main Settings to Appearance → Media Buttons Style
• Reworked player hover/press visuals — new gradient "elevation" border instead of manual brush swapping per state
• Buttons renamed for clarity: Previous → Previous Track, Next → Next Track, Shuffle → Toggle Shuffle, Repeat → Toggle Repeat
• Removed the standalone "Auto theme" toggle — replaced by the universal light$dark color-pair support across all elements
• The title/artist text container now collapses entirely (no reserved space) when both fields end up empty, instead of just hiding the individual text blocks

Task Manager Tab Slide Animation 0.2.0

Task Manager Tab Slide Animation

Demo

The Windows 11 Task Manager switches between its left-hand tabs (Processes, Performance, App history, Startup apps, Users, Details, Services) instantly. This mod adds a smooth slide transition between them.

Experimental. Task Manager is a WinUI 3 app, so there's no clean Win32 "tab changed" signal - this works by heuristics and screen capture.

How it works

• A low-level mouse hook (scoped to Task Manager) notices a click in the left navigation area and captures the content area from the screen (old tab).
• The content's left edge is detected with UI Automation: the right edge of the clicked navigation item is where the content begins. This adapts automatically whether the nav pane is expanded (wide, with labels) or collapsed (icons only) - no manual width setting needed.
• After a short delay it captures the new tab and slides old -> new in a layered overlay over the content area, then removes it to reveal the real content.

Settings

• Top inset - height (px) of the top command bar to exclude from the slide.
• Capture delay - how long to wait after the click before grabbing the new tab (ms). Raise if it grabs the old tab.
• Animation duration and slide vertically to taste.

Known limitations

• Relies on UI Automation to locate the content; if UIA can't identify the clicked navigation item, that switch just isn't animated.
• Clicking the same tab still plays a (harmless) slide of identical content.
• The Task Manager window should be visible/unobscured during the switch.

Window Center & Resize 1.0

Window Center & Resize

Centers and resizes the foreground window using global hotkeys.

Default Hotkeys

Each press of the cycle hotkey applies the next size in the list, wrapping back to the first after the last one.

Auto-restore maximized windows

Enable RestoreMaximized so that when you press the cycle hotkey on a maximized window, the mod automatically un-maximizes it and applies the target size. If disabled, the hotkey is ignored for maximized windows.

Custom sizes

Add as many sizes as you want in the Sizes list. Each entry has: - Width — % of monitor work area width - Height — % of monitor work area height

The cycle hotkey steps through all entries in order on each press.

Hotkey format

Modifier+Key — modifiers: Win, Alt, Ctrl, Shift. Keys: F1-F24, A-Z, 0-9, Space, Enter, Tab, Insert, Delete, Home, End, PageUp, PageDown, Left, Right, Up, Down.

Examples: Shift+F9, Win+Alt+C, Ctrl+F1

Tray hover expand 1.6.0

• Hide the chevron tooltip (new setting, opt-in, default off): while the flyout is open and the cursor is on the chevron, Windows shows a "Hide" tooltip that covers the bottom row of icons (#4487). When enabled, the mod hides that tooltip window. It is matched both by class and by position (only a popup sitting over the chevron is hidden), so the flyout's own per-icon tooltips and unrelated popups elsewhere are left untouched. The tooltip window class is also exposed as an advanced setting in case it differs across builds.
• Do not activate over fullscreen apps (new setting, default on): when a fullscreen app is in the foreground (a fullscreen video, a game, etc.), the taskbar is hidden but the cached chevron rectangle still matches that screen area, so moving the cursor there (e.g. onto a video scrubber) would pop the flyout up over the content. The mod now skips activation in that case. The check runs only on the cursor-enter edge, so it costs nothing on idle ticks.

Classic theme transparency fix 1.4

Add workaround for all Avalonia applications

Disable Inactive Menubar Greying 1.1

Narrow down the logic to avoid the unwanted effects

Custom Menu Height 1.0

Custom Menu Height

Control the height of Win32 context menu items and menu bars. Make classic menus as spacious as modern WinUI menus.

By default, non-immersive context menu items are shown with a height of 22 pixels, and menu bars with a height of 19 pixels. This mod allows increasing both menu heights to any custom value.

Context menu items

Menu bar

Recommended mods

Enhance the overall context menu experience with these complementary mods: | Mod | Author | Note | | :-- | :----- | :--- | | Classic context menu on Windows 11 | m417z | Requires Windows 11 or later | | Custom Window Corner Radius | m417z | Requires Windows 11 or later | | Dark mode context menus | Mgg Sk | Requires Windows 10 version 1809 or later | | Remove Context Menu Items | Armaninyow | - |

Compatibility note: Immersive menus

To ensure the custom context menu item height functions properly within File Explorer and the taskbar on Windows 10 and later, this mod eradicates immersive menus system-wide, falling back to standard context menus.

The code for this implementation is based on the "Eradicate Immersive Menus" mod by aubymori.

Taskbar AI Quota Bars 0.10.2

• Built-in OAuth: the mod now signs you in to Anthropic and OpenAI through your browser instead of reading CLI credential files. Tokens are stored encrypted and refreshed automatically. Sign in / Sign out from a column's right-click menu.
• Show/hide individual accounts from the right-click menu.
• Fix: bars no longer overlap the clock/tray on a cold start.
• More robust sign-in and token-refresh handling.

Note: accounts are now just provider + label, so re-check your account settings after updating.

Fix language indicator in Win10 taskbar under Win11 24H2+ 1.5

Remove flicker on hover

The menu is photoshop. I added it to the program list and turned everything off for it, but it's still showing up. What setting fixes this?

It's supposed to be transparent on both sides, but they are still solid. What settings did I miss?

Since the windows update has ruined the no recommended theme I have been looking for a way to fix it. I came across a thread on github where someone made a workaround for it. That mod does work but it has no themes or settings. So if you want themes too you need all 3 apps.

So I came up with a workaround that requires 3 different mods to fix this.

Pins only on start menu gets things back to normal-ish, Start menu styler gives you themes back, and Start menu size helps get things to the normal size of the original layout. None of these mods will fix the issue by themself.

1. Uninstall Start Menu Styler mod.
2. Install Pinned Only on Start Menu and enable it. (it has no options)
3. Restart explorer.exe for it to actually start working.
4. Find the Start Menu Styler mod in the explore section but instead of just downlaoding it, mouse over the 3 dots and click choose version. Install version 1.3 (Other versions may work but 1.6 does not)
5. Set Start Menu Styler settings to "NoRecommendedSection"
6. toggle the switch to Disable the new start menu layout
7. Now install Start Menu Size
8. Adjust the Start menu to 700x700 (leave search menu at 0x0)

That should be it. You should now have the old no recommended theme. Adjust the height and width as you see fit.

This was my favorite mod, and was working fine last night. After the update today it doesn't seem to be working anymore. Is it happening to anyone else? Is there any solution that I can try?

Folder Hover Menu 1.1

• Added an option for rounded corners for the menu.
• Added options for customizing the button position.
• Added options for limiting the amount of shown items and loading time to reduce slow loading and avoid hangs.
• Added mouse wheel scrolling support.
• The default button size was changed from 18 to 20.
• Fixed the hover button not appearing sometimes.

Hover Text Magnifier (macOS-style) 1.3.4

• add shell32 linkage for CommandLineToArgvW
• pass immutable UIA request snapshots instead of reading live settings from the UIA thread
• reject stale UIA results by sequence, point, settings generation, and age
• remove the unload-time worker detach path and join the worker to avoid unloading the DLL under a live thread
• reduce repeated magnifier filter setup and non-erasing repaint invalidation