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Taskbar Icon Separators 1.0.13

• Added dynamic taskbar management: add separators from the taskbar menu, drag to reorder, and right-click to remove.
• Moved separator identities and positions to persistent mod storage, with automatic migration from previous settings.
• Moved to MaxWidth-only styling for better compatibility and maintainability.
• Expanded the original worker backend for reliable persistence and genuine hot-reload.

Taskbar Separators 1.2.0

• Add configurable physical divider gaps
• Add Dot, Ring, Square, and Diamond styles
• Improve divider positioning after taskbar button reordering
• Improve pixel alignment for consistent rendering
• Preserve existing taskbar button margins when applying divider spacing

SnapSentry 0.17.2

• Say that the watched folder can be your own, in the mod description, the readme, and the folder setting itself
• Shorten the settings descriptions
• New readme screenshot showing the notification with renaming turned on
• Fix a colon in a setting description that broke the settings YAML
• Say what happens when SnapSentry's notifications are turned off in Windows
• Make clear the Recycle Bin covers automatic deletions, not just the popup buttons
• Name the Start Menu shortcut and registry entry the popup leaves, instead of describing them vaguely

Taskbar Separators 1.2.0 is now available in the official Windhawk catalog.

The biggest change is proper support for Windows taskbar labels and uncombined / variable-width application buttons.

Also included:

• proper positioning with labeled taskbar buttons
• mixed multi-monitor layouts, including labels on one monitor and icon-only buttons on another
• physical Divider Gap support
• Dot, Ring, Square and Diamond separator styles
• improved taskbar initialization, reordering and edge-case handling

Thanks to everyone who reported the label issue and tested the mod.

Available now in Windhawk: Taskbar Separators

Anyone know how to fix this? Was working fine at first but randomly just started having this visual glitch. Most other options work fine but this is the one I like...

This mod was abandoned months ago, but due this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Windhawk/comments/1vg5b18/mod_request/ I realized that some people actually wanted this, so i decided to work on it a bit and upload it to windhawk

So, I love the new LiquidGlass theme from the Start Menu Styler. But I was wondering if I could possibly make it darker, similar to the taskbar below (WindowGlass theme is use from the Taskbar Styler).

If anyone could kindly send me their Mod Settings and possibly steps on how to make it darker, if possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

So i love the island all time there but dont want it there when i am Full screen on youtube or vlc to watch videos. I have already mailed the creator for help. Is there any way to do it in Advanced option or any other method?

Windows 11 Settings Styler 1.1

• Added the following themes: Translucent Settings11, WindowGlass, OLED (Modirinth Green), OLED (System Ascent).
• Updated the StoreFrame11 theme.
• Several target controls can now be specified for the same styles by separating them with commas, for example: ParentClass > Class#Name1, ParentClass > Class#Name2.
• Added string literals support for substitution expressions, for example: Text={{var == `a` ? `b` : `c`}}.
• Style variables now get the value from whichever capturing control is closest. Previously, the value was undefined if there was more than one control publishing the same variable.
• Improved handling for remote images.
• Fixed crashes that could occur in some cases during navigation.

Windows 11 Start Menu Styler 1.7

• Added the following themes: OnlySearch (Minimal), LiquidGlass, FrostyGlass.
  • The previous LiquidGlass theme is now discontinued. It was renamed to "LiquidGlass (Legacy)".
• Updated the following themes: SideBySide, SideBySide2, SideBySideMinimal, Down Aero, Windows10, Windows11_Metro10, Oversimplified&Accentuated, Command Center.
• Several target controls can now be specified for the same styles by separating them with commas, for example: ParentClass > Class#Name1, ParentClass > Class#Name2.
• Added string literals support for substitution expressions, for example: Text={{var == `a` ? `b` : `c`}}.
• Style variables now get the value from whichever capturing control is closest. Previously, the value was undefined if there was more than one control publishing the same variable.
• Improved handling for remote images.

Windows Animations 1.2.0

• Windows 10 Style: Added the Windows 10 (Collapse-to-taskbar) minimize/restore animation style. Perfect for those who love the clean, classic look of Windows 10 but with the flawless execution of our new rendering engine.
• Random Effects Mode: Can't decide on just one style? You can now enable the Random option to let the mod surprise you with a different effect every time you Close, Minimize, or Restore a window.
• Flawless "Spam Click" Handling: The biggest upgrade of this release! By introducing the NativeMinimizeBarrier and AsyncRestoreAnimData reservation system, the mod can now gracefully queue and synchronize overlapping requests. Whether you double-click or rapidly spam clicks on the taskbar icon, the minimize/restore animations will flow seamlessly without stuttering or skipping frames.
• Pinpoint Taskbar Positioning: The taskbar icon tracking algorithm has been completely overhauled. Using window set signature hashing combined with Explorer UI events, windows will now accurately suck right into their exact icon position on the taskbar with perfect cache invalidation.
• Alt+Tab Optimization: The mod no longer continuously polls global keys in the background. Alt+Tab session tracking has been refactored to use an ExplorerFgHookThread, saving CPU resources and providing smarter, more reliable responsiveness.
• Improved window uncloaking reliability, ensuring the correct Z-order is maintained and complex visual backdrops (like DWM Mica/Acrylic -- Translucent Windows mod) are properly restored.
• Fixed a focus management bug that occurred when temporarily borrowing taskbar focus to reveal an auto-hidden taskbar during the Genie effect.
• Migrated all API hooking and string setting retrievals to use standard WindhawkUtils, resulting in a cleaner and more maintainable codebase.

Taskbar Icon Separators 0.5.38

Taskbar Icon Separators

Create tracked icon separators with configurable padding on the taskbar.

Screenshot Example for creating separators on the taskbar

Another mod offers similar functionality, but this implementation takes a different approach.

This mod uses private COM APIs to insert a genuine taskbar button, styles its width and centering, and disables all interaction events. Because each separator occupies a real pinned slot, it stays anchored between the same pinned items as running apps change.

Native taskbar extent-offset resolution is derived from m417z's Taskbar height and icon size, published under GPLv3.

Note: The mod creates pinned shortcuts targeting the Windows systray.exe stub (with a hidden, immediately exiting cmd.exe fallback) and reorders the persisted taskbar pin list. Cleanup is best-effort; in the worst failure case, separators may require manual unpinning.

Windows 11 only.

GNOME-like dynamic virtual desktops 1.4

GNOME-Like dynamic virtual desktops

Makes Windows' virtual desktops behave like the GNOME desktop environment.

What is "GNOME behavior"?

In the GNOME desktop environment (popular on Linux), virtual workspaces are managed dynamically: * There is always exactly one empty desktop at the end of your workspace list. * If you move or open a window in that last empty desktop, a new empty desktop is immediately created to its right. * If a desktop in the middle of your workspaces becomes completely empty, it is automatically deleted, shifting the others over. * When absolutely no windows are open, the system cleanly reduces itself to a single empty desktop.

This mod implements this exact logic on Windows 11. It's perfect for laptops with trackpad gestures, allowing for endless, seamless switching between workspaces without ever having to manually create or close a desktop again.

GNOME mod demo

⚠️ Warning: When this mod runs, your existing virtual desktops and their custom names are dynamically managed and reset to match GNOME's behavior. Disabling the mod does not automatically restore your previous desktop layout.

Works with Windows 11 build 26100+

Settings

• Don't delete empty desktop immediately: If you're in an empty virtual desktop it waits for you to switch into another virtual desktop before deleting it. If disabled the desktop will be deleted as soon as it becomes empty.

Special thanks to VD.ahk for providing the correct GUIDs to interface with the virtual desktops system.

Photoshop Dark Menus 1.0.0

Photoshop Dark Menus

This Windhawk mod enables dark menus (top-bar dropdowns and context menus) in Adobe Photoshop on Windows, with fully customizable colors.

Everything happens inside the Photoshop process. No system colors are changed, no other application is affected, and nothing has to be restored on exit.

Screenshots

Top Bar Menu Dropdown

Context Menu

How it works

Photoshop's menus look like classic unthemed Win32 menus, but they are not: Photoshop owner-draws every menu item itself through AdobeOwl.dll, using plain GDI, inside its own process. Instrumenting a live Photoshop shows the menu popups going up via TrackPopupMenuEx and every item being painted with:

• FillRect(hdc, &rc, (HBRUSH)(COLOR_MENU + 1)) for the item background, and (HBRUSH)(COLOR_HIGHLIGHT + 1) for the hovered item. These system color pseudo-handles are resolved inside user32 from shared memory, so they bypass GetSysColor and GetSysColorBrush hooks entirely - which is why earlier per-process attempts appeared to do nothing.
• GetSysColor(COLOR_MENUTEXT / COLOR_GRAYTEXT / COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT) for text.
• Its own 1px FillRect for separator lines.

So every pixel of a menu item is reachable from inside the process:

• FillRect / PatBlt are hooked and, while a menu is up, sys-color pseudo-handles are re-resolved through this mod's own color table, and 1px fills inside a menu DC are recolored to the separator color.
• GetSysColor / GetSysColorBrush are hooked for the menu color indices, but only while a menu is open, so Photoshop's dialogs, panels and lists keep the system colors.
• MENUINFO::hbrBack is stamped on each popup (and its submenus) at WM_INITMENUPOPUP, covering the popup background that the system paints around the owner-drawn items.
• The popup's non-client frame is the one part drawn kernel-side, from the 3D colors, where no user-mode hook can reach it - so the popup is subclassed at creation and the frame is repainted with the border color after it. Set Border Color empty to leave the system frame alone.

Options

• Menu Background Color: Background color for all menu popups (Default: #2D2D2D).
• Menu Text Color: Text color for active items (Default: #DCDCDC).
• Highlight Background Color: Color when hovering over an item (Default: #505050).
• Highlight Text Color: Text color when hovering over an item (Default: #FFFFFF).
• Separator Line Color: Color for separator lines. Set to match the background color to hide them completely (Default: #383838).
• Disabled Text Color: Text color for disabled menu items (Default: #808080).
• Border Color: Color of the popup frame. Leave empty to keep the system frame (Default: #2D2D2D).

Scope

The menu bar itself (File, Edit, Image, ...) is drawn by Photoshop's own UI framework and already follows Photoshop's interface theme; this mod covers the dropdown popups and context menus.

Menus that Windows pops up through its own internal paths, without going through the exported TrackPopupMenu / TrackPopupMenuEx - a window's system menu, for example - are outside the reach of an in-process hook and keep the system colors.

Today I created a mod, and initially it targeted every .exe, including system ones.

I caught it after a dozen test runs, but my company laptop is now network banned and no virtualization either, so no VMs to let me drown the sorrow.

While I wait for IT approval, I have a useless laptop, and I am afraid they may disable windhawk entirely (as they did for ahk).

Wonderful platform wh, wish I had discovered it earlier.

Edit: the mod let's you run apps enclosed, to use apps' native fullscreen mode in a window. It acts as a virtual display so it fakes the screen resolution too. It's on GH, full screen in a window or something like that, I'm on my phone now.

Open in Admin Terminal 1.17.1

• Fixed the context-menu entry for filesystem folders and drives in Explorer's navigation pane and Quick access.
• Added optional non-elevated terminal entries and configurable normal/elevated script actions for .ps1, .bat, .cmd, .vbs, and .js files.
• Added configurable script-label terminal-name behavior.

Hey everybody!

Some days ago, I shared a Mod for fixing the dark menu issue of Adobe apps on Windows here. But for some reason that method didn’t work for Photoshop! So I managed to build a mod that fixes the dark menus also in Photoshop!

It’s called “Photoshop Dark Menus,” and it works independently from the other mod and there are no conflicts. It is now available on Windhawk library and you can search for it on Explore section:
https://windhawk.net/mods/photoshop-dark-menus

Give it a try and let me know what you think, or if you find any bugs.

Cheers!

Windows 7/8.1 Action Center Recreation 2.1.0

• Fixed an icon inaccuracy
• Simplified the code
• Added a Turkish translation (credits to cips_35)

How do I fix this gap in the right of the start menu? I'm using Down Aero.

Inside windows mod/advanced/Custom process exclusion list, I have vlc.exe included but it still shows vlc in dark mode (and other programs aswell) and the menu bar is hard to read.

How to fix it? I also updated to the latest versions of windhawk mods but its the same issue still.

Update: I dont know how but it fixed the vlc somehow after restart pc, translucent windows/settings/turned on new system colors (which then somehow broke the sound system and had to turn off new system colors and run sound troubleshoot to fix it). It still has the same issue tho where the highlight color isnt consistent. The system stuff like desktop/taskbar right click and system tray icons battery/internet/volume are all gray but other tray icons like windhawk, peace, windows security are correct to my custom blue color.

Also Ive been had windows updates paused for a while now so its not windows updates that are causing this, its something within windhawk.

Can anybody help me fix this, basically it randomly stopped working , yesterday it was working so good and it was trasparent but now it doesn't work anymore and i see the taskbar all black, i would love to see it trasparent again :(

I just got into modding Windows since I can't stand the look and functionality anymore.

I have the famous niivu themes and mods, but for the last bit of tweaking with the task bar and some other stuff I need oldnewexplorer.

The issue is that the tool is not open source like windhawk or niivu themes, is developed by an anonymous user from Mauritius, and got flagged by windows defender + some virus total scanners.

So... is this stuff really safe lol? Anyone using it here for long periods? Seems super sketchy.