Ever wish Windows worked just a little bit differently? You're not alone. Windhawk is a free and open source application offering dozens of community curated mods for Windows and Windows applications. It's the simplest tool for customizing Windows that I've come across.

Windhawk is a free, open-source app that functions like an app store for Windows mods, allowing users to customize almost anything about their Windows experience easily.

Users can browse and install a variety of mods that range from visual tweaks, like changing the taskbar style, to functional changes, such as modifying taskbar volume controls or disabling grouping of taskbar icons.

Each mod includes a caution to review its source code on GitHub, ensuring users can make informed decisions before installing any customizations.

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    2 months ago

    Each mod includes a caution to review its source code on GitHub, ensuring users can make informed decisions before installing any customizations.

    About as useful as an “I agree to the terms and conditions” checkbox tbh. Open source code suffers horribly from misplaced community trust. The most deadly type of gathering for children is a pool party surrounded by adults. Because if everyone is watching the kids to make sure they don’t drown, nobody is watching the kids. Every single person independently goes “I don’t need to worry about it, cuz someone else will notice.” If everyone is auditing the code, nobody is auditing the code.

    • kennebel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      This also implies that the average population has an astronomically higher capacity to read code than actually exists. The average Excel user can’t read most simple Excel methods.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        No. Simply pointing out that urging users to audit the code is a lost cause; The vast majority of users won’t even know how to read the code, much less how to check for exploits or backdoors.

  • 001Guy001@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been using it for a few months and it’s been great, but I just found out that by default it injects itself into all processes and it gave me the ick (for example if you use Firefox you can see in about:third-party)

    The explanation provided seems kinda logical but I don’t know if it’s legit or not

  • OtterAEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I stumbled across this recently trying to make my taskbar smaller without borking the size of everything else

    It’s nice :)

    I tried out a few of them, and I’m currently using these two:

    • Taskbar height and icon size
    • Taskbar Volume Control

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