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Posted on June 17th, 2010.
Hi,
If windhawk is active, firefox keeps on crashing. When i deactivate windhawk, firefox works perfect. But not when windhawk is active and running on windows 11.
Regards,
DE SMEDT GUY
Hi, have you tried disabling all the mods? Does it still crash in this case?
Please capture and upload a crash dump. You should be able to get it with the following steps:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Error ReportingLocalDumpsDumpTypewith value 2%LocalAppData%\CrashDumpsfolder, you should see a dump file in thereHello, I wanted to let you know that with the new Windows update (KB5070311) build (26200.7309), for some reason the Taskbar mod doesn’t work correctly. Let me explain better: all the options work fine except for “WindowGlass,” which breaks the auto-hide function of the taskbar. At the moment, I’m using the Translucent option of the mod. I hope you can find a solution because I really like “windowGlass” option. Sorry for the length of the message, and thank you for this software.
please make a mod to color task manager please mate
Hi –
Great piece of software!
One thing I’ve noticed, and I’m not sure if this is the place to bring it up, is that when a mod has an available update, the ‘update’ banner blends in a lot with the mod toggles which are located just an inch or two below. I would suggest changing the ‘Update’ banner to a contrasting color, for example Orange, as it can be hard to notice even for me without any disabilities, when an update is available.
Could use a mod for making start menu folders use a different default icon. Had to reset windows to a hateful version and all the normal icons are gold-brick now I’ stuck with your competitors (Shhhh… open shell) so that I can ignore the eye sore. Ha
Hi,
Task View on Windows 10 used to have a dimmed and iconless wallpaper as background, but on Windows 11 the background is not dimmed and desktop icons are under the window thumbnails. Anyway to bring back the old look on Windows 11?
Regards
Hi, as far as I know there’s no such mod for Windhawk. I’m not familiar of other ways to customize it easily. A mod that can customize it with some manual work is Windows 11 Taskbar Styler (which, despite the name, can also customize the task view). You can check the existing themes and look at the styling guide to see if you find a relevant solution.
I might get how it works, but the next problem is UWPSpy shows XAML information only when Task View is active, I can’t go back and see what it says.
It can be challenging to work with such elements with UWPSpy. There are tricks that might work, such as using a second monitor (not sure if it works in this case), but sometimes there’s just no solution.
As an alternative solution, I changed the mod to print the element tree when the Task View is shown. Here it is:
https://gist.github.com/m417z/483f164e64c7aa1b30e6638301ee2bba
It’s not ideal, but hopefully it’s good enough to get started and find the right targets.
Any first mod you personally recommend to try on Windows 11 to make it feel less boring right away?
I cannot download the update from Github…
Mark
Please provide more details. Are you getting an error message?
Hello, Ive been using the Windhawk and it works great. Justn wanted to make a suggestion, if anyone gets a chance to fix it? Basically, I was using this Windhawk Win11 transparent taskbar and also Windows taskbar on top. Works great, however when you switch to Win11 taskbar behavior to automatically hide the taskbar; now when you want to close a window, the close button on the window is inaccessible due to the fact that the windows taskbar will show/hide when you move the pointer to that close button ‘X’ on the top. It will work with Windows taskbar on the bottom, but it has this challenge to close the window when the task bar is on the top with hide task bar option.
Hi, actually it was just fixed in the Taskbar on Top mod, please update to the latest version.
Hi Michael, I can confirm that this is fixed now. Weldone!
Today, WinHawk suddenly stopped working due to a virus detection by Windows Defender…
What’s your Windhawk version? What message are you seeing?
Hello,
I relied on your app for years so that I could have a concise list of open windows when I hovered over an icon in the taskbar. I lost that ability when I switched to Windows 11 and I didn’t have the tech chops to get one of your recommended hacks to work. I was quite frustrated by having to see those thumbnails all the time.
Well I just installed your latest version of 7+ Taskbar Tweaker and, lo and behold! Those little lists are back instead the the thumbnails. i don’t know what you did, if anything, to make it happen. But I want you to know how happy I am. Makes such a big difference in my life. Thank you, thank you.
7+ Taskbar Tweaker doesn’t support Windows 11, so I’m also not sure. One guess is that perhaps you opened many windows, in which case Windows turns it into a list.
The way to have the tweak on Windows 11 is to use Windhawk:
If you’re not familiar with Windhawk, here are the steps of installing the mod:
“Hello, I have translated the Windhawk program to Iranian Persian. Is it possible to add it to your program?”
Hi, a Persian translation was submitted here recently:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-translate/pull/75
Windhawk does just as it says, but it also hides the Microsoft Defender and Windows Security icons with no way to leave them visible.
How to fix?
Please provide more details. Which mod causes the icons to become hidden? How can I reproduce this behavior?
Windhawk is awesome!
One annoyance is that with Taskbar tray icon spacing and grid mod version 1.2, dragging a system tray icon to a new location (on 2 line Win 11 system tray), also changes the order of other unrelated icons that are not being dragged for re-order.
For example, I use the BinaryFusion’s TrayStatus which shows status various status icons for caps lock, shift, etc., in the system tray. With this addon installed, the icons cannot be re-ordered. Disable the addon and I can re-order the icons. Other apps (e.g. AutoHotkey.exe) exhibit similar behavior.
Is there a setting to fix this behavior?
Hi, with 2 rows, the order of the icon is column-first, top-to-bottom, for example:
A C E GB D FI thought about adding an option for row-first, left-to-right:
A B C DE F GIs that what you’re asking?
I’m not completely sure what your message means, what I read is a contradiction between “dragging […] also changes the order of other unrelated icons” and “With this addon installed, the icons cannot be re-ordered”.
Thanks for the reply.
To clarify the “contradiction”: I can physically drag an icon, but doing so causes a “shuffle” effect where other icons jump to unexpected positions. It feels like they can’t be ordered correctly because moving one affects others unpredictably.
Your suggestion for row-first, left-to-right ordering is spot on. In a 2-row setup, most users expect to move an icon horizontally. Currently, because it’s column-first, moving an icon to the “right” actually forces it to jump between the top and bottom rows, which shifts every other icon in the sequence.
I believe an option for row-first ordering would definitely fix this behavior!
Done in version 1.3, please update, let me know how it works for you.
Excellent fix! I can now re-order the icons as expected!
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As a side note, in Win 11, with and/or without Windhawk running, different icons that come from from starting multiple instances of the same process name (e.g. AutoHotkey64.exe), cannot be individually moved. Instead they randomly group or reorder. This is NOT an issue with Windhawk Taskbar tray icon spacing and grid.
Here is an image to illustrate the issue before and after I moved one icon while WindHawk:
https://imgur.com/a/EhKyohj
The top image shows (red arrow) moving the icon from one location to a different location.
The bottom image shows (yellow arrows) that other icons also reordered (to a random position). Icons that moved, on their own, all had the same process name (AutoHotkey64.exe).
It would be awesome if there were a way to override this default windows behavior when WindHawk was running.
Thank you again for Windhawk and for a great mod!
I remember this limitation. Maybe one day, perhaps as a separate mod.
You can create an issue here for tracking and to allow other users share feedback about it:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/issues
An issue suggesting a new mod has been added to GitHub.
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/issues/2947
Awesome software! 🤘😎 Thank you very much! 🙏
I just want to thank you for creating all these mods that fix so much of the mess that MS has created with Win11. Why they felt the need to cripple us is beyond me and makes me hate them more and more everyday but thanks to you and all those who have done all this work using Win11 isn’t as painful as I expected. Please continue the good work for when the possible Win12 shows up crippling us more.
Hello, guys!
On Windows 11 Enterprise, the following Windhawk taskbar-related modules do not work: StartMenuStyler and NotificationCenterStyler.
StartMenuStyler module does not load at all. It doesn’t even appear in “loaded mod” menu.
Can you please help.
Hi, please start by going over the troubleshooting page:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk/wiki/Troubleshooting
Mod Request
I would like a mod which disables paths from being shown when clicking the address bar in explorer in windows 11. There does not seem to be a way to do this in group policy or registry successfully in 2026.
Hi!
I use win11 with explorerpatcer with windows 10 taskbar style (means my taskbar use win10 code). But now in 7+Taskbar tweaker is get an incompatibility warning (unknown windows version) and settings are inactive (gray). Windhawk’s “Taskbar reorder within/between groups” mode is not working (don’t do anything, settings tab is empty). Pleas modify 7+Taskbar Tweaker or Windhawk’s “Taskbar reorder within/between groups”, in order to work with such parameters.
Hi,
That doesn’t necessarily mean that. The old Windows 10 taskbar code was removed in Windows 11 version 24H2. ExplorerPatcher has a reimplementation of the Windows 10 taskbar, but it’s different enough that 7+ Taskbar Tweaker doesn’t work with it. I don’t plan on making it compatible. For more details, refer to the ExplorerPatcher wiki:
https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/wiki/ExplorerPatcher's-taskbar-implementation
Right, it only works with the Windows 11 taskbar. Making it work with Explorer Patcher is not trivial, since the taskbar UI implementation is completely different, and currently it’s not planned.
Perhaps you know about these, but as an alternative solution you might want to try the Taskbar Thumbnail Reorder mod or the Disable grouping on the taskbar mod.
Thank you for your extremely quick response. I will try the alternatives.
Hi, I got my Windhawk for the first time with the Sweet Rainbow in File Explorer.
Hallo Michael,
ich möchte bei dem MOD Windows 11 Metro10 Minimal Design die Farbe in in #40527f ändern und komme nicht klar.
welche Einträge muss ich in
Target:
Styles:
eingeben?
Ich bedanke mich bereits im Voraus für Ihre Hilfe.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Wolfgang Viereg
Would it be possible to create a filter within Windhawk that you can seperate windows 10 from windows 11 mods? I find myself getting all excited about a mod and then I click and realize its for 11 and I get frustrated because I’m still Johnny Old Guy on Windows 10. Just a thought! Thanks for the awesome program!
Thanks for the suggestion, but it’s unlikely, given that the vast majority are Windows 11 users, and Windows 10 is mostly out of support (or will be soon).
Alright, fair enough. You drive a hard bargain lol
hello, can you creat a mod to show the GPU & CPU temperature on taskbar for me please
Hi, it was discussed before. Unfortunately I haven’t found an easy way to query this information. I might give it another try in the future.
With respect to the “Vertical Taskbar for Windows 11” Windhawk mod, is there a plan to include taskbar item height parameters?
While I love the restoration of a vertical taskbar that can be docked to the left-hand side of the screen, the current challenge is the incredibly wasted pixel space for each application item within the taskbar.
On Windows 10, there was an option within the native Taskbar settings to “Use small taskbar buttons.” Use of this option removed much of the empty pixel space for each ‘button’ and window title. This significantly consolidated the taskbar and made for a much cleaner look/feel/experience (especially when have a couple dozen application windows open in various apps. The Vertical Taskbar mod helps achieve vertical-ness and setting taskbar width, but at the expense of bloated voids of pixels above and below each taskbar icon/text.
Hi, have you tried the Windows option for smaller icons?
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/how-to-use-smaller-icons-in-the-taskbar-for-windows-11
Thank you Michael. That did the trick. I somehow had a brain fart and passed right over this option as I was focused on a toggle button (as was the case in Windows 10) versus a drop-down menu option (Windows 11).
This is regarding Taskbar Labels for Windows 11, after recent Windows update, when I switched from multimonitor back to single monitor setting, the entire taskbar would go blank, I have to go into Windhawk to disable/enable Taskbar Labels for Windows 11 to regain taskbar.
Please create a new issue here:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/issues
Post your Windows version, a screenshot, debug logs, and try to see if it only happens with specific mod settings.
If I may suggest a feature for Windhawk, the ability to add mods toggle based on whether dark mode is on or not,
for example, turning off “Translucent Windows” mod when system is switched to light mode automatically, for convenience.
Здравствуйте, я бы хотел узнать как с помощью Windhawk добавить погоду на панель задач
Здравствуйте! Можно использовать мод Taskbar Clock Customization.
I am using your Translucent Windows mod on windhawk and when i open an applications properties everything appears in white on white as oppose to black on translucent background. And when I disable your mod the background of the text i hover over turns into solid color(Black) but that is most likely a windhawk/windows things, so please look into this glitch and thank you for this mod.
Hi, I’m not the author of that mod. You can create a new issue here:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk-mods/issues
Hi, I love the things you do via windhawk, so first of all, i wanted to thank you about it, its great !!
Just wanted to report a bug that is important,
i’m using your ‘win11 taskbar styler’ (1.6.1),
with the windowglass theme,
i love it ahah !
i also have your ‘Taskbar auto-hide when maximized’
activated
but i dont have access to the button that shows on the free place around the shown taskbar (left and right). so i have to move my windows up a bit to be able to click my buttons, and it keeps activating the task bar from left and right of it,
idk which one of the two tools is the one that makes the bug, but is there something you can do, or help me about it ?
(btw, idc really but the 12h clock doesnt fit the windowglass theme, just lettin you know)
thank you so much for reading !
Hi, I’m not the author of the WindowGlass theme, you can check for existing issues here or create a new issue:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windows-11-taskbar-styling-guide/issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al83RuNiuRA
I was wondering if you could replicate this taskbar for windows 11 taskbar styler. I really love it and think it would be very popular. Please have look at Brentech’s coverage of the ui at the above link. As i love Windhawk and would drool over this ui but have no clue on how to design gui. Others probably would too.😢
Hello, I’ve got the Taskbar Labels for Windows 11 mod running and have set the Running indicator style for full width and Progress indicator style for full width and the Text trimming as trim chracter with ellipsis and show labels don’t combine taskbar buttons. I want to enable the Windows 11 Taskbar Styler mod concurrently, and I want non running active taskbar indicator colour to be bright white so it contrasts with the running active taskbar window that’s open/been selected. Most commands i’ve tried from google AI are not working. The non active indicators are staying grey colour, or when i change the indicators to white, they all changed to white including the active taskbar button
Hi,
Windhawk is awesome, but it starts extremely slowly on a laptop with a 13th-gen i7, 16 GB RAM, and Windows 11 24H2 (with automatic updates disabled). No matter what I do, it behaves the same..
hi, the vertical task bar is a saviour – windoze is what a bag of crock for removing that facility – your module is very useful to fix this and thank you hugely for the effort.
I have a small issue, the vertical task bar contains none of the usual icons, unless I click on the 3 vertical dots at which point they pop out to the right in a very small vertical tower to choose from. I’d like to see them directly in the vertical task bar, as “usual”. Is this a setting I’m missing?
Thanks again.
never mind – I discovered the taskbar “width” setting and increased that – so is now resolved. It’s a bit odd as the icons appeared to fit in the bar previously, but were not visible presumably because of width. Anyhow – never mind – all fine now.
(please remove the duplicate post of mine above).
Many thanks again for your useful module.
Привет. После последнего обновления перестал работать мод “Taskbar on top for Windows 11”. Панель задач не поднимается в верх. Будут ли исправления или мод больше работать не будет?. Хороший и нужный мод. Исправьте пожалуйста. За ранее благодарю.
Привет, какой билд Windows 11? Версия preview/insider?
Выпуск Windows 11 Pro
Версия 25H2
Дата установки 01.04.2026
Сборка ОС 26200.8328
Функциональность Пакет интерфейса компонентов Windows 1000.26100.304.0
2026-04 Предварительное обновление (KB5083631) (26200.8328)
Taskbar tray system icon tweaks . Не работает после обновлений.
Выпуск Windows 11 Pro
Версия 25H2
Дата установки 01.04.2026
Сборка ОС 26200.8328
Функциональность Пакет компонентов компонента Windows 1000.26100.304.0
2026-04 Предварительное обновление (KB5083631) (26200.8328)
Оба мода у меня работают.
Прикрепите логи, следуя инструкциям на странице Troubleshooting:
https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk/wiki/Troubleshooting#some-or-all-windhawk-mods-dont-work
Ошибка
ERROR_INTERNET_CANNOT_CONNECT. Есть антивирус?только родной виндовский. на данный момент отключен.
Можно попробовать Windhawk Symbol Helper – в Target executable ввести
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\taskbar.dll, нажать “Get symbols”, выключить и включить мод.заработал только через VPN
Включил Vpn. Дождался 5 минут. Перезапустил все моды. Перезапустил проводник. Все моды теперь работают. Vpn отключен.
Thank you so very, very much for Windhawk and the disable taskbar thumbnails mod. For my workflow, it is a lifesaver.
Also, I just donated because I was so helped and impressed by your recent almost instant update to fix what a recent Windoze update had broken (again).
You’re welcome 🙂 and thank you for the support, I highly appreciate it!