Windhawk v1.5: Symbol cache server, general stability
Introducing version 1.5 of Windhawk, the tool that aims to make it easier to customize Windows and programs.
Symbol cache server
The most notable new feature of the new Windhawk version is the integration with the symbol cache server.
Most users are probably familiar with this dialog which pops up after installing mods or after updating Windows:
Some mods rely on symbol files which are downloaded from the Microsoft public symbol server. These symbol files aren’t tiny, and downloading them takes time. The symbol cache server was created to calculate and store only the necessary information for each mod, which is much smaller than the symbol files. The new Windhawk version checks the symbol cache server for the relevant data, and only if this data is missing (e.g. the Windows version was just released or is too old), it falls back to downloading the symbol files.