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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