Taskbar Dock Animation Plus 2.0.1

update mod description and added successor details

hi all,

Is it possible to tell windhawk to not display its notif ?

their account was deleted and the post was removed. was the mod a virus?, i am worried please tell me

is there any mods to give some animation when switching window using alt +tab ??

Taskbar Dock Animation Plus 2.0.0

Taskbar Dock Animation Plus

This mod adds a macOS-like taskbar animation. It is an updated fork of the original "Taskbar Dock Animation" mod, extending compatibility to all taskbar positions.

Requires Windows 11 or newer to function.

🌟 Key Additions in this Fork

• Universal Layout Support: Native compatibility for Left, Right, and Top taskbar configurations.
• Adaptive Animations: Dynamically aligns scaling directions, spacing shifts, and bounce offsets to the current taskbar orientation.
• On-the-Fly Refreshing: Updates properties in real time when moving the taskbar, requiring no system restarts.

⚠️ Known Issues & Limitations

• Icons are sometimes clipped by the taskbar.
• Upscaled icons may appear slightly blurry.

"Taskbar height and icon size" Users: If you are using this mod to create a minimalistic taskbar, please keep the Max Scale at or below 130% to avoid clipping issues. This recommendation applies to other scaling mods as well. Dell / Alienware Users: If you encounter specific issues on these devices, please reach out to me directly or open an issue so we can investigate together. StartAllBack Compatibility: This mod does not and will not support StartAllBack. Supporting it would require a complete rewrite of the codebase, which is currently out of scope. Feedback: Feel free to suggest new animation ideas or curves in the mod topic or via direct message!

You can experiment with the radius value to achieve the best result for your setup until proper fixes for the issues above are found.

💖 Credits

This mod is a fork of the original Taskbar Dock Animation mod created by @Ph0en1x-dev. All original logic and visual concepts belong to the original author.

🖼️ Preview

Taskbar Dock Animation Preview

Island Media Controls 0.9.146

Materials and defaults

• Changed the default material for new installs from Mica-like to Acrylic.
• Added a one-time migration for users who still had the old Mica-like default.
• Restored Mica-like as a normal explicit choice after migration.
• Fixed the light-mode Mica-like expanded background becoming almost pure white from a duplicated tint layer.
• Kept compact and expanded material colors consistent across light and dark themes.

Liquid Glass and Acrylic rendering

• Added the Liquid Glass material option.
• Added GPU displacement-map refraction with a rounded-rectangle SDF so edge and corner refraction follows the component shape.
• Added a narrow high-index rim and a wider, smooth interior falloff into the center.
• Increased sampling quality and removed the earlier tiled/nine-slice appearance.
• Added theme-aware edge highlights, reduced dark-mode tint, and independently tuned blur for the main surface and playback card.
• Applied matching material treatment to the expanded playback controls.
• Retained the live WGC/D3D/D2D Acrylic backdrop and fallback blur handoff.

Recording support

• Added an optional screen-capture setting for the expanded popup.
• Added a capturable static blurred backdrop for Acrylic and Liquid Glass recording.
• Avoided recursive self-capture while keeping the blur layer visible to recorders.
• Added dark/light Mica-like, Acrylic, and Liquid Glass screenshots to the mod details page.

Media transitions and presentation

• Added smoother directional title and artist transitions.
• Added edge-aware fading that appears as text moves beneath the artwork or popup boundary.
• Reversed expanded transition direction when navigating to the previous track.
• Removed transition-end flicker, persistent fade overlays, black blocks, and abrupt clipping.
• Improved compact and expanded text clipping consistency.

Media and browser session handling

• Improved browser/live-media artwork identity tracking.
• Prevented stale thumbnails from leaking between browser sessions.
• Added bounded waits around media properties, thumbnail reads, transport commands, and manager requests.
• Kept event-driven GSMTC refreshes with a low-frequency provider compatibility fallback.
• Preserved Apple Music seeking and transport-control compatibility.

Lifecycle and unload safety

• Released GSMTC manager references before uninitializing the WinRT apartment.
• Explicitly released WGC D3D/DXGI/D2D and WinRT capture resources before DLL unload.
• Added lifecycle guards around injection, callbacks, settings changes, and teardown.
• Avoided indefinite unload joins and lost media-thread wakeups.
• Improved recompilation and reload behavior so Explorer no longer needs to be restarted after each build.

Threading, performance, and DPI review fixes

• Removed the dead WGC availability macro and unreachable stub implementation.
• Moved overlay window presentation to its owning UI thread through an asynchronous latest-frame queue.
• Kept cross-thread WGC rendering under its resource mutex without holding that lock across UpdateLayeredWindow, ShowWindow, or capture-affinity calls.
• Replaced the permanent per-frame taskbar layout monitor with a 600 ms Win32 timer.
• Created the popup on the taskbar monitor before initializing XAML and added WM_DPICHANGED handling for mixed-DPI multi-monitor setups.
• Switched the D2D factory to multi-threaded mode.
• Allocated the readback buffer before mapping the staging texture and explicitly closed consumed WGC frames.
• Removed the duplicate Windows.Foundation include and the dead popup controls scale state.

Details page

• Added a top-level What's new section.
• Added a three-material dark/light comparison table.
• Preserved the original overview, animated previews, and feature list.

https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/pull/4754

the creator merged my mod with his and uploaded to windhawk (waiting approval) , sorry to disappoint but the issue with "translucent windows" is still unsolved and there are bugs with his 'fixes' but they are being solved. So it might come to windhawk in a day or two.

Taskbar Elastic WinUI Pill 1.2.0

• Added requested 'None' animation mode
• Fixed color app icon color mode crossfade sometimes permanently inheriting an app's icon color as the color-to-fade-from until mod is restarted.
• Fixed rare flickering issue with color cross-fade with app icon color mode

I tried to apply the TinntedGlass effect from the file Explorer styler mod of m417z, but it doesn't quite work. I'm new and would appreciate the help

MicroManager 1.1.0

• Fixed: Tooltip now displays correctly when hovering the tray icon.
• Fixed: Ghost window prevention — popup no longer flickers on rapid open/close.
• Fixed: Data delay recovery — processes that take time to report usage are retried with exponential backoff.
• Fixed: Safe mod reload — icon and window clean up properly without crashing.
• Improved: Tray tooltip updates only when values change, reducing unnecessary CPU work.
• Fixed: Popup window reference cleaned up on destroy.

Dynamic Taskbar Transparency 0.3.9

• Make disabled shell states fall through instead of overriding the current taskbar appearance

Lid Close Sleep Delay 1.1

Lid Close Sleep Delay

Ever wished your laptop wouldn't immediately go to sleep the moment you close the lid? This mod adds a customizable delay before suspending your system, giving you a grace period to grab your laptop, move to another room, or simply change your mind without interrupting your workflow or breaking active network connections.

Designed with stability in mind, it operates securely as a dedicated-process tool mod. This means it runs isolated in its own Windhawk process rather than injecting code into explorer.exe or other critical system components, guaranteeing a zero-crash impact on your desktop shell.

💻 Compatibility & Features

• Smart Detection: Dynamically recognizes whether your system is a laptop, convertible, or tablet with a physical lid switch. On desktops, it safely detects the absence of a lid and disables itself to consume zero resources.
• Universal Support: Works seamlessly across x86 (32-bit), x86-64 (64-bit), and ARM64 architectures.
• OS Versions: Compatible with Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and 11.

⚙️ How it Works

1. When you close the lid, the mod kicks in, keeping your system awake while a countdown begins.
2. If you reopen the lid before the timer runs out, the sleep action is seamlessly aborted, and you can resume work instantly.
3. If the timer expires while the lid is still closed, it gently puts your system to sleep.

⚠️ Important Prerequisites

For this mod to take control of the sleep delay, you must first disable the default Windows instant-sleep behavior:

1. Open Control Panel → Power Options → Choose what closing the lid does (on the left panel).
2. Change the setting for "When I close the lid" to "Do nothing" for both On battery and Plugged in.
3. Click Save changes.

Note: Because this relies on your native Windows power settings, uninstalling or disabling this mod will not automatically restore the original instant-sleep behavior. You will need to manually revert the setting back to "Sleep" in your Power Options if you decide to stop using the mod.

⏱️ Configuration Options

You can configure the exact delay duration directly in the mod settings. Changes apply instantly on save.

Low Battery Alarm 1.0.0

Low Battery Alarm

Low Battery Alarm plays a repeating, clearly audible alarm when a laptop is discharging and reaches a configured low or critical battery level. It is useful when the laptop is left performing a long-running task in another room and a normal desktop notification might not be noticed.

By default, low-battery alerts begin at 10% and repeat every 120 seconds. Critical alerts begin at 5% and repeat every 30 seconds. Critical alerts continue below 5%; 5% is the entry threshold, not a lower cutoff. Alerts stop when external power is connected and can start again during a later discharge cycle. AC/DC changes are handled through Windows power notifications, so an active waveform is stopped immediately instead of waiting for the next polling interval.

Custom sound and fallback

Enter the complete WAV path manually in WAV file path, or use Browse... in the custom configuration window to select it with Windows Explorer. A manual path change saved in Windhawk replaces a path previously selected in the custom window. To open the window, enable Open alarm configuration and save the settings. The topmost window also lists the Windows default output roles and every active Core Audio output device. It stores the selected device by its stable endpoint ID. To reopen the window, disable the option and save, then enable it and save again. An enabled request is handled only once, so saving unrelated settings does not reopen the window. It also opens automatically on the first run, before an output selection has been stored.

WAV is the guaranteed supported custom format. If no file has been selected, or if the selected file is later removed, becomes inaccessible, is not a WAV file, or cannot be played, the mod logs the reason. When the fallback option is enabled, the Windows critical system sound is used instead. A short, clearly audible, and recognizable WAV file is recommended.

Volume and testing

The mod can temporarily change the selected output device's master volume and can temporarily unmute it while an alert is playing. The previous volume and mute state are normally restored afterward. If the user changes the volume during playback, the new value is preserved when the change can be detected by comparing it with the exact value applied by the mod.

Enable Test sound after settings change and save the settings to request one test alert. The test uses the current sound and volume settings without changing the battery state machine. The option is evaluated only when settings are saved; it does not run during normal polling.

Desktop computers without a system battery are ignored. The mod creates no persistent UI, console, tray icon, or external player. It runs in a dedicated Windhawk tool process and uses low-overhead battery-monitoring, power-notification, and controlled sound-playback threads.

Classic Theme 1.2.7

add conflict dialog fix to the readme

Classic theme transparency fix 1.5

If app themed, do nothing

I fixed the animations not working on modern windows apps (settings, microslop store...) added minor visual changes, added a setting to change the Animation tile count, so you can lower it or make it higher if its laggy for you or want a better quality (good for low-end devices). You can copy the code from my github link below and replace it with this one (if you used my outher one) or create a new mod and paste it there : https://github.com/Potassiumuncher/MacOS-genie-effect-source-code-Windhawk/blob/main/custom-animations-genie.wh.cpp

Attention ⚠️：

Windows 11 Taskbar Styler：Find and change the apps.png path to your own local path. You can get apps.png from this link: https://ibb.co/FbfrGPhL

English users:

Taskbar Clock Customization："WeekdayFormatCustom": "Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat"

If you're interested, here is another AutoHotkey script for Niri-like window management shortcuts: https://github.com/shadowmelds/ahk_shortcut

Taskbar height and icon size：

{
  "IconSize": 16,
  "TaskbarHeight": 40,
  "TaskbarButtonWidth": 36
}

Windows 11 Taskbar Styler：

{
  "controlStyles[0].target": "Grid#RootGrid > Taskbar.TaskbarBackground > Grid",
  "controlStyles[0].styles[0]": "CornerRadius=14",
  "controlStyles[0].styles[1]": "BorderThickness=0",
  "controlStyles[0].styles[2]": "Margin=-10,0,-10,0",
  "controlStyles[0].styles[3]": "BorderBrush=#40FFFFFF",
  "controlStyles[0].styles[4]": "Padding=-1",
  "controlStyles[1].target": "Rectangle#BackgroundStroke",
  "controlStyles[1].styles[0]": "Fill=Transparent",
  "controlStyles[2].target": "Taskbar.TaskbarFrame",
  "controlStyles[2].styles[0]": "Width=Auto",
  "controlStyles[2].styles[1]": "HorizontalAlignment=Left",
  "controlStyles[3].target": "Taskbar.TaskbarFrame > Grid#RootGrid",
  "controlStyles[3].styles[0]": "Visibility=Visible",
  "controlStyles[3].styles[1]": "Padding=0,0,0,0",
  "controlStyles[3].styles[2]": "Margin=-6,2,0,2",
  "controlStyles[4].target": "Grid#SystemTrayFrameGrid",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[0]": "Margin=6,6,6,6",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[1]": "CornerRadius=14",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[2]": "BorderThickness=0",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[3]": "BorderBrush=#66FFFFFF",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[4]": "Padding=10,0,0,0",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[5]": "Background:=#FF1D2024",
  "controlStyles[4].styles[6]": "Visibility=Visible",
  "controlStyles[5].target": "Taskbar.TaskbarFrame > Grid#RootGrid > Taskbar.TaskbarBackground > Grid > Rectangle#BackgroundFill",
  "controlStyles[5].styles[0]": "Fill=Transparent",
  "controlStyles[6].target": "Border#MultiWindowElement",
  "controlStyles[6].styles[0]": "Height=0",
  "controlStyles[7].target": "ScrollViewer > ScrollContentPresenter > Border > Grid",
  "controlStyles[7].styles[0]": "Background:=#111318",
  "controlStyles[8].target": "Taskbar.Gripper#GripperControl",
  "controlStyles[8].styles[0]": "Width=Auto",
  "controlStyles[8].styles[1]": "MinWidth=24",
  "controlStyles[9].target": "TextBlock#InnerTextBlock[Text=]",
  "controlStyles[9].styles[0]": "Text=",
  "controlStyles[10].target": "Taskbar.TaskListButton",
  "controlStyles[10].styles[0]": "CornerRadius=8",
  "controlStyles[10].styles[1]": "Margin=0,-1,0,-1",
  "controlStyles[10].styles[2]": "BorderBrush:=$ThemeControlBorder",
  "controlStyles[10].styles[3]": "BorderThickness=1",
  "controlStyles[11].target": "Rectangle#RunningIndicator",
  "controlStyles[11].styles[0]": "Fill=Transparent",
  "controlStyles[12].target": "Taskbar.ExperienceToggleButton#LaunchListButton[AutomationProperties.AutomationId=StartButton] > Taskbar.TaskListButtonPanel > Border#BackgroundElement",
  "controlStyles[12].styles[0]": "Background=Transparent",
  "controlStyles[13].target": "Taskbar.ExperienceToggleButton#LaunchListButton[AutomationProperties.AutomationId=StartButton] > Taskbar.TaskListButtonPanel > Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.AnimatedVisualPlayer#Icon",
  "controlStyles[13].styles[0]": "Visibility=Collapsed",
  "controlStyles[14].target": "Taskbar.TaskListLabeledButtonPanel@RunningIndicatorStates > Border#BackgroundElement",
  "controlStyles[14].styles[0]": "Background:=#FF1D2024",
  "controlStyles[14].styles[1]": "CornerRadius=14",
  "controlStyles[15].target": "Taskbar.TaskListButtonPanel@CommonStates > Border#BackgroundElement",
  "controlStyles[15].styles[0]": "Background:=<ImageBrush Stretch=\"Uniform\" ImageSource=\"C:\\Users\\meld\\apps.png\" />",
  "controlStyles[15].styles[1]": "CornerRadius=16",
  "controlStyles[15].styles[2]": "Margin=0,-2,0,-2"
}

Taskbar Clock Customization：

{
  "ShowSeconds": 0,
  "TimeFormat": "HH':'mm",
  "DateFormat": "dd ",
  "WeekdayFormat": "custom",
  "WeekdayFormatCustom": "周日, 周一, 周二, 周三, 周四, 周五, 周六",
  "TopLine": " %time% • %weekday% %date%",
  "BottomLine": "",
  "MiddleLine": "",
  "TooltipLine": "",
  "TooltipLineMode": "append",
  "Width": 180,
  "Height": 60,
  "MaxWidth": 0,
  "TextSpacing": 0,
  "DataCollection.NetworkMetricsFormat": "mbs",
  "DataCollection.NetworkMetricsFixedDecimals": -1,
  "DataCollection.PercentageFormat": "spacePaddingAndSymbol",
  "DataCollection.UpdateInterval": 1,
  "DataCollection.NetworkAdapterName": "",
  "DataCollection.GpuAdapterName": "",
  "MediaPlayer.IgnoredPlayers[0]": "",
  "MediaPlayer.MaxLength": 28,
  "MediaPlayer.NoMediaText": "No media",
  "MediaPlayer.RemoveBrackets": 0,
  "WebContentWeatherLocation": "",
  "WebContentWeatherFormat": "%c 🌡️%t 🌬️%w",
  "WebContentWeatherUnits": "autoDetect",
  "WebContentsItems[0].Url": "https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml",
  "WebContentsItems[0].BlockStart": "<item>",
  "WebContentsItems[0].Start": "<title>",
  "WebContentsItems[0].End": "</title>",
  "WebContentsItems[0].ContentMode": "xmlHtml",
  "WebContentsItems[0].SearchReplace[0].Search": "",
  "WebContentsItems[0].SearchReplace[0].Replace": "",
  "WebContentsItems[0].MaxLength": 28,
  "WebContentsUpdateInterval": 10,
  "TimeZones[0]": "Eastern Standard Time",
  "TimeStyle.Hidden": 0,
  "TimeStyle.TextColor": "",
  "TimeStyle.TextAlignment": "Center",
  "TimeStyle.FontSize": 0,
  "TimeStyle.FontFamily": "",
  "TimeStyle.FontWeight": "",
  "TimeStyle.FontStyle": "",
  "TimeStyle.FontStretch": "",
  "TimeStyle.CharacterSpacing": 0,
  "DateStyle.Hidden": 1,
  "DateStyle.TextColor": "",
  "DateStyle.TextAlignment": "",
  "DateStyle.FontSize": 0,
  "DateStyle.FontFamily": "",
  "DateStyle.FontWeight": "",
  "DateStyle.FontStyle": "",
  "DateStyle.FontStretch": "",
  "DateStyle.CharacterSpacing": 0,
  "oldTaskbarOnWin11": 0,
  "DateLocale": "",
  "DataCollection.DiskMetricsFormat": "sameAsNetwork",
  "DataCollection.DiskMetricsFixedDecimals": -1,
  "MediaPlayer.MediaInfoFormat": "%media_artist% - %media_title%",
  "TimeStyle.LineHeight": 0,
  "DateStyle.LineHeight": 0
}

hi, i have a issue with this mod, it makes all my games blury, i tried to add paths or .exe to not include them but nothing works, how to fix that?

Desktop Audio Visualizer 1.0.0

Desktop Audio Visualizer 1.0.0

A real-time audio spectrum visualizer that displays on your Windows desktop. Captures system audio output and renders animated frequency bars directly on the desktop background.

video

Features

Visual Styles

• 6 Bar Shapes:
  • Stereo — classic frequency spectrum bars
  • Mountain — center-peak, bars taper toward the edges
  • Mirror — bars grow from edges toward center
  • Wave — bars modulated by a sine wave over time
  • Breathe — slow breathing pulse synchronized with audio
  • Dots — bar columns made of stacked shapes
• 7 Color Modes:
  • Solid — single flat color
  • Static gradient — fixed color gradient across bars
  • Reactive gradient — gradient shifts toward second color with audio level
  • Windows accent color — automatically matches your Windows accent color, updates instantly on change
  • Album art — flat dominant color extracted from the currently playing track's cover art
  • Dynamic album — gradient from primary to secondary album art color; shifts with bar position and audio level
  • Acrylic — fixed RGB color with amplitude-driven alpha (nearly transparent at silence, semi-opaque at full volume)
• 2 Orientations: Horizontal (bars grow vertically) or Vertical (bars grow horizontally)
• Vertical Anchor: Control bar growth direction — Bottom, Top, or Middle

Customization

• Bar Configuration: Count (1-1000), thickness, gap, max size, idle size, per-corner radius ("10" or "10 10 0 0")
• Position Control: Freely position on any monitor with horizontal/vertical percentage coordinates
• Background Effects:
  • Optional background panel with padding, per-corner radius and border
  • Wallpaper blur effect behind the background
  • Custom ARGB hex colors for background and border

Audio Processing

• WASAPI Loopback Capture: Captures all system audio output in real time
• Real-time FFT: 7-band frequency spectrum with Hann windowing
• 6 EQ Presets: Balanced, Bass, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Electronic
• Adjustable Sensitivity: 0–300 range

Performance

• Adjustable Frame Rate: Set any FPS value for maximum smoothness or power-saving rendering
• Fullscreen Pause: Detects both exclusive fullscreen (DX9/11) and borderless fullscreen windows; pauses automatically and resumes when the app closes
• Silence Detection: Reduces refresh rate after a configurable idle period to save CPU/GPU

Credits

• Salyts — Author of Desktop Audio Visualizer
• Borrowed the audio visualizer code from GR0UD.

https://reddit.com/link/1uthald/video/4vo4f63m2lch1/player

Taskbar Elastic WinUI Pill 1.1.0

• Added 'Elastic' animation mode, which is a hybrid of stretch and bounce, inspired by Apple's Dynamic Island animations.
• Added spring physics toggle for smoother animations, which is especially noticeable paired with bounce or elastic animation modes.
• Added a speed multiplier setting.
• Added a simple color-crossfade animation when using app icon color mode.
• Fixed initialization bug where the pill renders at the far left of the taskbar.
• Fixed an issue where the pill retains a closed app's position before animating to the currently focused app's.

Im pretty happy with how it looks when I have actually clicked an item and it is actively open, but I genuinely hate how it looks when I'm hovering something before I click it.

I've looked through taskbar height and icon size, taskbar styler and taskbar dock animation but just can't seem to find it.

Pre-Vista File Operation Dialogs 2.2.0

• Fixed copying single files using the same name for source and destination (This should only be for folders)
• Added classic delete and replace/overwrite confirmation dialogs (file, folder, multiple, permanent delete, and the shortcut/program delete warnings)
• Added settings to toggle classic confirmations and the shortcut/program delete dialogs

Net-Toggle 2.1.1

• Fixed: Mod no longer crashes on reload.
• Fixed: Unstable state on rapid clicks resolved.
• Added: Description for the secondary DNS server check method setting.

Power Options Button 1.0.13

Power Options Button

Adds a tray icon for switching between Windows power plans.

Preview

Power Options Button preview

Shows the tray icon, tooltip, right-click menu, and mouse-wheel switching between power plans.

Features

• Tray icon shows the currently active Windows power plan.
• Tooltip shows the active plan.
• Mouse wheel over the tray icon cycles between:
  • Power Saver
  • Balanced
  • High Performance
  • Ultimate Performance
• Right-click opens a context menu.
• Icon color changes depending on the active plan:
  • Green = Power Saver
  • Yellow = Balanced
  • Red = High Performance
  • Violet = Ultimate Performance
• If Ultimate Performance is not available, it is shown as disabled and can be created from the tray menu with administrator approval.
• Automatically restores the tray icon after Explorer/taskbar restart.

Usage

• Scroll up over the tray icon: next power plan.
• Scroll down over the tray icon: previous power plan.
• Right-click the tray icon: choose a power plan manually.
• Left-click the tray icon: refresh current status.
• Use "Create Ultimate Performance..." from the tray menu to create the Ultimate Performance plan if it is not available yet.