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Windows 11’s Start menu has quietly grown into a full-blown workspace on many machines: taller, wider, and now often bridged to your phone — which is great for some users but an unwelcome takeover for others. This article walks power users and everyday readers through safe, practical ways to...

Windows 11 still doesn’t give users a built‑edged way to change the visible size of the Start menu, but community tools — most notably the Windhawk modding platform — now offer a practical workaround that lets you resize the Start menu immediately. What began as a small, repeatable community mod...

Windhawk has quietly become the go-to modding platform for Windows 11 users who refuse to accept Microsoft’s increasingly locked-down interface, delivering a modular, community-driven way to restore lost features, add new behaviors, and personalize the taskbar, Start menu, and File Explorer —...

Windhawk has quietly become the Swiss Army knife of Windows 11 customization: a lightweight, open‑source modding engine that injects small, auditable C++ mods into Windows processes and — in many cases — restores functionality and flexibility that Microsoft removed or locked down. What used to...

File Explorer’s stubborn omission — the inability to show folder sizes in the Details view — has been quietly solved by a tiny community tweak that stitches two free tools together: Windhawk and Everything Search. The result is a near‑native experience that places folder sizes into the Size...

Microsoft shipped a small, convenient behavior in Windows 11 but left out the final mile of usefulness — and a fast-moving community mod has now delivered the missing piece: per‑app taskbar volume control that works by simply hovering and scrolling over individual taskbar icons. Background /...

IO Interactive has quietly rolled back one of the more eyebrow‑raising entries in its early PC hardware guidance for 007 First Light: the studio corrected the recommended system RAM from 32 GB down to 16 GB, trimmed VRAM targets, and fixed a minimum CPU line after community scrutiny — a change...

Windhawk’s new Taskbar Volume Control Per‑App mod turns a fiddly, multi‑click mixer into a one‑motion tweak: hover a cursor over any app’s taskbar button and scroll to change that app’s volume, Ctrl+click to mute, and read the current percentage in a tooltip — all without opening the Quick...

I started using Windhawk to treat Windows 11’s taskbar like a design element instead of an afterthought, and the result was immediate: a floating, dock-like bar that actually blends with my wallpaper instead of standing out as a solid slab. What began as a small cosmetic experiment—installing...

Windhawk’s latest update pushes Windows 11 customization from hobbyist tinkering toward a smoother, safer, and faster modding experience — the app now defaults to downloading precompiled mods, adds version rollbacks and a YAML settings editor, and tightens the UI for discovery and management so...

Windhawk’s new 1.7 release tightens the screws on usability and performance while smoothing several long-standing rough edges in the modding workflow that power users and casual customizers alike have been asking for—most notably by shipping pre-compiled mods by default, adding a YAML text mode...

Windhawk’s modular mods ecosystem is doing more than dressing up Windows—it’s quietly restoring missing functionality, smoothing rough edges, and giving power users surgical control over the Start menu, Taskbar, File Explorer and more, and the nine community‑favorite mods below represent the...

I spent a day and a half turning a stock Windows 11 desktop into a minimalist, functional work of art — and the experience shows why ricing Windows is no longer the niche hobby it once was, but a practical way to reclaim time, attention, and joy from an OS that increasingly prioritizes...

Windows 11’s clean, opinionated design won plenty of fans — but that same polish left many power users and nostalgia seekers wanting more control over the taskbar, Start menu, and desktop personality. A wave of community-built mods has stepped in to fill that gap, offering everything from a...

Windhawk arrives as a surprisingly polished bridge between what Microsoft ships in Windows 11 and what many users actually want: a lightweight, open‑source mod platform that makes the Start menu, taskbar, File Explorer and other core UI elements genuinely customizable — and, in many cases...

ExplorerPatcher’s latest pre-release restores the long-missed File Explorer title bar, patches several Start menu and taskbar regressions, and moves under-the-hood hooking to a new library — but it also ships with a short list of known quirks and a reminder that modifying core shell behavior...

The Windows 11 taskbar looked like a fresh start—sleeker, centered, more modern—but for many users it felt more like a locked box than a customization canvas. A tiny, unofficial tool called Windhawk changes that: it’s a modular tweaking platform that restores missing functionality, unlocks...

Windows 11’s design choices have divided users since launch, and a growing cadre of third‑party developers has been quietly restoring the controls Microsoft removed. One of the most complete and community‑driven solutions is Windhawk, an open‑source mod manager that bundles dozens of focused...

The snap layouts flyout that appears when you drag a window to the top of the screen can be useful — but for many multi‑monitor users it’s an irritating interruption; Windows 11 exposes a single checkbox that removes that top‑of‑screen UI while leaving snap functionality intact, and this article...

After two decades on Windows and a few months of serious Linux testing, one thing stands out: desktop environments are the feature I wish Windows would borrow wholesale — a modular, swappable shell model that turns the platform into a true creative canvas rather than a single locked-in UI. rview...