Windhawk mods for the Windows 11 taskbar
A few weeks ago, Windhawk, the customization marketplace for Windows programs, was released. You can read the announcement blog post for more details and for the motivation behind creating it. One of the sections of the blog post was dedicated to 7+ Taskbar Tweaker.
Regarding the future of 7+ Taskbar Tweaker: It will keep existing as a separate program which supports Windows 7 to Windows 10. As mentioned in a recent blog post, most parts of the taskbar were reimplemented in Windows 11, and 7+ Taskbar Tweaker can’t be made to work with the new taskbar without a huge amount of work. My plan, at least in the short term, is to implement the most demanded customizations for Windows 11 as Windhawk mods.
Below is a table with features that are available in Windows 10 but are missing in Windows 11. Some of the features are part of Windows 10 (marked with the 
icon) and some are part of 7+ Taskbar Tweaker (marked with the 
icon). Please vote for the features that you’d like to have back in Windows 11. I’ll prioritize implementing the most requested features as Windhawk mods. For each implemented feature, the page will be updated to reflect the current status.
Voting can be done in two ways, simple voting and a donation. I added the donation option to be able to give extra priority to votes of users who wish to support the project with a donation. To vote with a donation, add the feature hashtag to the donation comment like this. Donations are a great motivating factor (thanks!), and I think that letting supporters decide where to focus first is a nice perk.
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| Feature | Votes | Donations | Status |
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| Right click: Standard window menu |
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| Middle click: Switch to / Minimize / Close |
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| Dropping: Open with |
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| Hovering: List / Tooltip / Nothing |
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| Thumbnails: Drag to reorder |
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| Thumbnails: Left click on the active thumbnail minimizes the window |
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| Pinned items: Remove extra gap between items |
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| Pinned items: Open with double click |
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| Grouping: Don’t group |
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| Grouping: When not grouping, place new items next to the existing ones |
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| Grouping: Don’t group pinned items |
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| Grouping: Drag within/between groups using right mouse button |
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| Left click on combined item: Cycle through windows |
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| Mouse wheel: Cycle between taskbar buttons |
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| Minimize/restore when mouse is over: Taskbar buttons / Thumbnails |
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| Control volume when mouse is over: The taskbar / The notification area |
✅ Done | ||
| Customize double/middle click on empty space |
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| Hide the Start button |
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| Hide the “Show desktop” button |
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| Display seconds on the tray clock |
✅ Done | ||
| Reserve empty space on taskbar |
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| Change the size of taskbar icons |
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| Taskbar Inspector |
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| Decombine taskbar buttons |
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| Show labels in taskbar buttons |
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| Taskbar on the top of the screen |
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| Taskbar on the side of the screen |
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| Open Taskbar Manager via right click |
If a feature that you’d like to see in Windows 11 is not in the table, please let me know in the comments below.
Tags: 7+ taskbar tweaker, windhawk
“Hide the “Show desktop” button” разве эта не та опция, которая управляется в окне параметров?
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
Параметр TaskbarSd со значением 1 или 0.
Почти. С TaskbarSd кнопка отключается, но от нее все равно остается немного занятого места справа. “Hide the “Show desktop” button” подразумевает скрытие этого пустого места.
Add a way to customize the icon size of the taskbar..
Thanks for the suggestion, added with the name “Change the size of taskbar icons”. I assume you’re looking for something like the w10_large_icons advanced option.
By the way, I haven’t tried it myself, but it looks like there’s a registry option to change the size of the taskbar, perhaps you’ll find it useful:
https://www.howtogeek.com/759589/how-to-make-your-taskbar-larger-or-smaller-on-windows-11/
You’re right ! I used this option and it was working since last insider version. (the same version that contain the new task manager and also fix drag & drop in taskbar).
It seem Microsoft removed this option because it don’t have any effect anymore. I tried 3 size. But it could be nice to have something in Windhawk that allow to decide icon size in pixels and maybe to control padding of each of them.
Two requests please:
“Notification area: Remove extra gap between items” (recently added, major annoyance for some)
“Notification area: Drag to reorder items” (recently removed)
Please vote for “Pinned items: Remove extra gap between items”, it’s related, and I’ll look at controlling the gap in the notification area too when I’ll look at it.
What do you mean? I think you can reorder the icons in all Windows 11 versions, except for the volume and network icons which are implemented differently. Or did you mean reordering these two?
in newer insider builds you can’t drag and drop tray icons anymore, though as it’s insider it may not be intentional
Yes, insider builds. Was introduced along with the new gap, which is there for tablet mode touch interactions. That the gap is also in desktop mode suggests standardization of UI appearance. But on desktop it doesn’t make sense so feels forced upon us. So I wouldn’t be surprised if the loss of drag and drop ordering is similarly forced and intentional: maybe via touch it’s easy to drag icons accidentally, so it’s universally gone. That would make sense since some users toggle both modes and need a consistent experience.
okay, apparently it was semi-intentional, but it was also reverted in latest build
https://i.imgur.com/uWdcsoy.jpeg this too pls
That would be “Customize double/middle click on empty space”, vote for it.
The only option I need is this:
show_desktop_button_size which was in the extended options
Vote for “Hide the “Show desktop” button”, I’ll try to implement changing its size too when I look at it.
How about the “Left click on combined item: Open last window if inactive, otherwise open thumbnail preview”? I don’t see it on the list. Didn’t realize how much I’d miss that feature. Thanks!
Please vote for “Left click on combined item: Cycle through windows”. I’ll look into adding the option you mentioned, too.