Drag to Delete 1.0.0

Drag to Delete

Drag files onto a floating target to move them to the Recycle Bin.

Demonstration

Windows 11 Control Center Buttons 1.0.0

Windows 11 Control Center Buttons

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Removes the stock Settings (gear) button from the bottom bar of the Windows 11 Control Center panel and puts your own buttons there instead.

Actions are run by a dedicated Windhawk tool-mod process (windhawk.exe -tool-mod), the panel host sends the click to a tiny hidden window inside that process, which runs the command.

Button fields

Action formats

Modifier signs (prepend to any action)

Signs can be combined: -*cmd:tasklist runs cmd in a visible window as admin.

Shake to Find Cursor 1.3

Shake to Find Cursor

Shake to Find Cursor demo

Shake the mouse (or swipe back and forth on the touchpad) and the cursor grows so you can spot it instantly. Stop shaking and it shrinks back.

How it works

• Runs as a tool mod in its own background process, so it never touches Explorer.
• Listens to raw mouse input: no polling, no CPU use while the mouse is idle, and it can't add input lag the way a low-level mouse hook can.
• A shake means the cursor travelled a long way (Shake distance) while staying inside a small area (Back-and-forth ratio) within the Time window.
• Enlarging replaces the real system cursors with bigger versions loaded from your current cursor scheme's files at the target size. The big cursor is the pointer: no overlay window, no trailing, and it keeps your cursor style and colour. The normal cursors are restored the same way Control Panel applies a scheme.
• Keep shaking and the cursor keeps growing, slower and slower: each further step of the same size takes twice as long as the previous one. By default it stops at the height of your screen, which takes hours of shaking.
• The grow and shrink animations are time-based and run at your display's refresh rate. While animating, only the cursor that's on screen is resized, which keeps every frame cheap.

vs. macOS magnifying cursor

The catalog already has macOS magnifying cursor, which does something similar but works differently: it hides the system cursors and draws a scaled copy in its own overlay window, polling the cursor position every 16-40 ms. This mod instead replaces the real system cursors with bigger renders of your own cursor scheme, driven by raw input rather than polling. In practice that means no overlay lag or trailing, the enlarged cursor keeps your actual cursor style and colour, and there's no CPU cost while the mouse is idle. Don't enable both at once - they'll fight over the system cursors.

Notes

• Apps that draw their own custom cursor keep their small one.
• Cursor files contain images of up to 256 px, so past that the cursor is upscaled and gets softer.
• If the mod's process is killed while the cursor is big, the normal cursors are restored the next time the mod starts (re-applying a pointer scheme in Mouse Properties also fixes it).
• Raw input may not reach the mod while an elevated window (Task Manager, a UAC prompt, an installer) has focus, depending on Windows version. If so, a shake over such a window won't be detected until focus moves elsewhere.

Real Names in Pre-Vista Recycle Bin Prompts 1.3

Real Names in Pre-Vista Recycle Bin Prompts

> Tested only on Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100). It has not been tried on any other version of Windows and may not work there.

Delete something out of the Recycle Bin with the XP-style prompts of Pre-Vista File Operation Dialogs enabled, and the confirmation asks about a file you never had:

> Are you sure you want to delete "$RVAZ2WZ.b"?

This mod puts the real name back:

Before: the prompt names the $R stub

After: the prompt names the file that was deleted

The stock Windows 11 prompt already shows the right name; the mod is for prompts that look the name up the way Pre-Vista File Operation Dialogs does.

Why the name is wrong

The Recycle Bin does not keep a deleted file under its own name. It renames it to $R plus a few random characters, keeping only the extension, and writes the real path into a companion $I file next to it. Everything that asks the Recycle Bin folder for a display name gets the original name back; anything that only looks at the file on disk sees the stub.

The XP-style prompt looks at the file on disk: it asks SHGetFileInfo for the display name of C:\$Recycle.Bin\<SID>\$RVAZ2WZ.b, and for a plain file path that is just the file name - the stub.

What the mod does

When SHGetFileInfo is asked for the display name of a $R file inside a $Recycle.Bin folder, the mod answers with the name recorded in the $I file next to it - one small file read, no searching. With Show the full original path on, it answers with the whole path the file was deleted from.

Anything else is passed straight through, and a $R file with no $I file next to it keeps its own name.

Nothing about the Recycle Bin's contents, its folder view, or the files themselves changes. This only changes the name a prompt is about to display.

По-русски

Если включён мод Pre-Vista File Operation Dialogs с запросами в стиле XP, то при удалении чего-нибудь из Корзины подтверждение спрашивает об удалении файла, которого у вас никогда не было, - например, «$RVAZ2WZ.b». Мод возвращает в такой запрос настоящее имя (скриншоты - выше, в английской части). Стандартный запрос Windows 11 и так показывает правильное имя; мод нужен для запросов, которые узнают имя так же, как Pre-Vista File Operation Dialogs.

Корзина не хранит удалённый файл под его настоящим именем. Она переименовывает его в $R и несколько случайных символов, сохраняя только расширение, а настоящий путь записывает в парный файл $I рядом. Всё, что спрашивает имя у папки Корзины, получает настоящее имя; всё, что смотрит на сам файл на диске, видит служебное.

Запрос в стиле XP смотрит на файл на диске: он спрашивает у SHGetFileInfo отображаемое имя пути C:\$Recycle.Bin\<SID>\$RVAZ2WZ.b, а для обычного пути к файлу это просто имя файла, то есть служебное.

Когда у SHGetFileInfo спрашивают отображаемое имя $R-файла в папке $Recycle.Bin, мод отвечает именем, записанным в соседнем файле $I, - это одно чтение маленького файла, без всякого поиска. Если включено «Показывать полный исходный путь», ответом будет весь путь, откуда файл был удалён. Всё остальное проходит без изменений, а $R-файл без соседнего $I остаётся со своим именем.

Мод ничего не меняет в содержимом Корзины, в её окне и в самих файлах - только имя, которое запрос собирается показать.

> Проверено только на Windows 11 24H2 (сборка 26100). На других версиях Windows мод не проверялся и может не работать.

Enlarged Icons Without Thumbnail Frames 2.9.2

Enlarged Icons Without Thumbnail Frames

> Tested only on Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100). It has not been tried on any other version of Windows and may not work there.

In the large icon views of Explorer, an item that has only a small icon - a classic 32x32 icon, say - is shown as a "thumbnail": the small icon sits in the middle of a white frame and is never enlarged to the size of the view. This mod takes such icons out of the frame and enlarges them to fill the view, with nearest-neighbour scaling, so classic icons stay sharp instead of blurred. The small arrow of a shortcut is kept in the corner of the enlarged icon.

Before (the mod disabled):

Before

After:

After

It is not another way to turn thumbnails off. Mods like Disable Folder Thumbnails choose whether a folder gets a thumbnail; this one changes how an icon that Windows puts in a thumbnail frame is drawn, so that it can be as large as the view instead of staying small inside the frame.

Requirement: the classic list view. The frame removal and the enlargement work on the classic SysListView32 file list, which Explorer only uses when a mod or tweak turns it on - for example Enable SyslistView32, or the Use native list view option of Aerexplorer. With the default Windows 11 file list, only the Folders and Shortcuts settings below have an effect.

Folders and shortcuts

A folder whose thumbnail is a preview of the files inside it, and a shortcut whose thumbnail is taken from its target, cannot be enlarged as icons, because they are not icons. The Folders and Shortcuts settings (both on by default) make file system folders and all .lnk shortcuts use their icons instead, so that they are drawn - and enlarged - the same way as everything else. Files keep their thumbnails.

Notes

• Only the file list of Explorer folder windows is redrawn, and only in the views with icons of 32 pixels and larger. The desktop, the folder tree and other programs are left alone. Whenever the mod cannot be sure that a drawing step is safe, it leaves the original Windows drawing in place.
• The Folders and Shortcuts settings apply wherever Explorer itself chooses between an icon and a thumbnail, so they also affect the desktop. File dialogs of other programs are not affected.
• Turning Folders or Shortcuts on or off, or disabling the mod, affects items as their images are loaded again - reopen or refresh a folder to see it.
• Disable Thumbnail Minimum Size hooks the same thumbnail decision. With both mods enabled, the one whose hook runs first wins, so the Folders and Shortcuts settings may have no effect.

По-русски

В крупных видах Проводника объект, у которого есть только маленький значок, - например, классический значок 32x32 - показывается как «эскиз»: маленький значок стоит посередине белой рамки и никогда не увеличивается до размера вида. Мод вынимает такие значки из рамки и увеличивает их на весь размер вида без сглаживания, так что классические значки остаются чёткими, а не размытыми. Стрелка ярлыка остаётся в углу увеличенного значка.

Это не очередной способ отключить эскизы. Моды вроде Disable Folder Thumbnails решают, будет ли у папки эскиз; этот мод меняет то, как рисуется значок, который Windows помещает в рамку эскиза, - чтобы он был размером с вид, а не оставался маленьким внутри рамки.

Требование: классический список файлов. Снятие рамки и увеличение работают в классическом списке SysListView32, который Проводник использует, только если его включает мод или настройка - например, мод Enable SyslistView32 или параметр Use native list view в Aerexplorer. Со стандартным списком файлов Windows 11 действуют только настройки «Папки» и «Ярлыки».

Папка, эскиз которой - превью лежащих в ней файлов, и ярлык, эскиз которого берётся у его цели, не могут быть увеличены как значки, потому что это не значки. Настройки «Папки» и «Ярлыки» (обе включены по умолчанию) заставляют папки файловой системы и все ярлыки .lnk показывать значки, чтобы они рисовались и увеличивались так же, как всё остальное. У файлов эскизы остаются.

Перерисовывается только список файлов в окнах папок Проводника и только в видах со значками от 32 пикселей; рабочий стол, дерево папок и другие программы не затрагиваются. Настройки «Папки» и «Ярлыки» действуют везде, где сам Проводник выбирает между значком и эскизом, поэтому и на рабочем столе; диалоги открытия файлов других программ не затрагиваются. Изменение настроек «Папки» и «Ярлыки» или отключение мода видно, когда изображения загружаются заново, - откройте папку снова или обновите её. Мод Disable Thumbnail Minimum Size перехватывает то же решение об эскизах; если включены оба, настройки «Папки» и «Ярлыки» могут не действовать.

> Проверено только на Windows 11 24H2 (сборка 26100). На других версиях Windows мод не проверялся и может не работать.

Desktop Window Cards 1.3

Desktop Window Cards

When you minimize a window, a copy of it "falls" onto the desktop: it drops away, tilts back, loses its shadow and dims, until it lands as a small card underneath all other windows. Showcase Watch the full-quality video

• Click the thumbnail: the card rises back to the window's original position and the real window is restored in its place.
• Top bar: drag it to move the card around the desktop. With the option enabled, the position is remembered: the next time you minimize that window, its card lands where you left it.
• X button: closes the window (or only removes the card, depending on the settings).
• Smooth reveal: on restore, a snapshot of the card stays on top of the window while Windows rebuilds its transparency effects (Mica/Acrylic), then fades out to reveal the real window, hiding the initial flicker.

Cards use DWM thumbnails, the same ones used by taskbar previews. The content stays live as long as the app keeps drawing while minimized; many apps stop doing so and show their last frame.

The mod runs in a dedicated Windhawk tool process. Cards remain available across Explorer restarts.

Notes

• Native Windows animation: in "Off only when restoring from a card" mode (default), Windows animations stay enabled (maximize, snap and other mods relying on them keep working) and are switched off only for the moment a card restores its window. When minimizing, Windows' own animation towards the taskbar therefore remains visible as well. "Always off" disables it while the mod is active: no double animation, but no maximize animation either. These changes only apply to the current session.
• If the mod's process ends unexpectedly while the native animation is switched off, the mod switches it back on the next time it starts.
• Cards don't follow virtual desktops.
• Windows running as administrator can be shown as cards, but restoring or closing them from a card may fall back to a plain restore, since a non-elevated process can't send them commands.
• Apps that hide to the notification area when minimized don't get a card.

Quick translator & Layout-switcher 1.0.1

Selection Layout Switcher & Translator

A lightweight Windows utility that bridges communication between English and Russian speakers. Eliminates mistyped keyboard layout errors and allows instant two-way translation without breaking workflow.

> Privacy Notice: This mod optionally connects to Google Translate (translate.googleapis.com) over HTTPS to perform translations. Selected text is transmitted only when a translation hotkey is triggered. This feature is strictly opt-in and disabled by default.

Screenshot

HUD Tooltip Preview

Features

• Layout Correction (Ctrl + Alt + L): Fixes mistyped text (ghbdtn -> привет or vice versa) with full punctuation mapping and automatically updates the active system input layout.
• In-Place Translation (Ctrl + Alt + T): Replaces selected text directly inside any editable input field using HTTPS POST requests. Supports multi-line paragraphs.
• Floating HUD Tooltip (Ctrl + Alt + Q): Translates read-only incoming messages in a sleek DPI-aware dark tooltip positioned near your cursor.
• Smart Auto-Dismiss: The tooltip remains visible until you click anywhere, scroll the mouse wheel, or press navigation keys (Esc / Arrows).
• Clipboard Preservation: Automatically restores previous clipboard contents after performing operations.

Default Hotkeys

• Ctrl + Alt + L - Switch mistyped layout (US <-> RU)
• Ctrl + Alt + T - In-place translation (Requires enabling online translation in Settings)
• Ctrl + Alt + Q - Floating HUD Tooltip translation (Requires enabling online translation in Settings)

WinDuo 0.1.0

WinDuo

As the laptop lid closes, the picture on screen leans back, blurs and dims, as though it were a sheet hinged at the bottom of the display that stays put in the room while the glass turns away from it. The top of the sheet tips forward a little, so content near the top edge stays legible for longer.

There is no hinge sensor on most laptops, so the lid angle comes from the webcam: closing the lid pitches the camera down, the scene slides up the frame, and the size of that slide is the angle.

This is the Windhawk edition of WinDuo. Its geometry, shader and state machine are ported from Mac Duo (Apache 2.0, Copyright 2026 Makito). It runs as its own process (a Windhawk tool mod), injects into nothing, and hooks nothing.

The screen leaning back as the lid closes

What to expect

• The camera stays on while you are using the laptop, so its privacy light stays lit. It has to be watching before the lid starts to move. It turns off while the lid is shut, the display is off, the session is locked, or the built-in screen is not in use. Frames are measured in memory and never stored or sent anywhere. Disable the mod to turn the camera off entirely.
• Battery. A streaming webcam costs roughly as much as a video call's camera does, which on most laptops is well under a watt but is not nothing.
• Other camera apps. On many laptops, especially on Windows 10, only one app can use the camera at a time. While the mod is streaming, a video call or the Camera app started afterwards may report that the camera is in use: disable the mod for the call. If the other app has the camera first, the mod backs off and tries again later (every few seconds at first, then up to once a minute) until the camera is free.
• Built-in screen only. The effect runs on the laptop's own panel, even when an external monitor is the main display, and does nothing while the laptop is docked with the lid shut.
• Camera permission. The mod reads the camera as an ordinary desktop app (it runs inside windhawk.exe), so Windows shows no prompt. It needs Settings > Privacy & security > Camera > Let desktop apps access your camera turned on, and windhawk.exe then appears in that list while the mod runs. If the setting is off, the mod log says so.
• It needs Windows 10 version 2004 or later, so the overlay can keep itself out of its own screen capture.
• Accuracy depends on the room: a lit room with some detail in front of the camera tracks well; a dark room or a blank wall does not, and the effect then declines to run rather than guessing.

Calibration

The default assumes a typical laptop webcam (about a 75 degree field of view). If the effect starts too early or too late, adjust Degrees per pixel: raise it if a small close already triggers the effect, lower it if a large one does not. The desktop app has a calibration wizard that measures this exactly.

Trying it without closing the lid

Turn on Play a preview and save. The effect plays one scripted close on whatever is on screen, then the switch can be turned back off.

Taskbar Disk Space Label 0.72

Taskbar Disk Space Label

A lightweight free/available disk space label integrated directly into the Windows 11 taskbar. This is kind of a "remix" of the Taskbar Countdown Timer module by Richi (https://github.com/richilp) The label is shown on the primary taskbar only, taskbars on secondary monitors don't show it. Windows 11 only.

Features

• Choose the disk to be checked via module settings (default to C)
• Choose the font size (Default to 12)
• Choose between user available free space or total free available space (Default to total free space)
• Choose the update interval (default to 60 seconds)
• Choose the description text on the first line of the label (default to "Free Space")
• Leave the description text empty to have a single-line label with no info text
• Choose the alignment of the label text

When the label gets clipped, please lower the font size, or clear the description

Screenshot

Screenshot

Edge Native UI Tweaks 1.0

Edge Native UI Tweaks

Customize Favorites folder icons in Microsoft Edge's native browser interface without affecting web content.

Favorites folder icons

Getting started

1. Enable the mod.
2. Restart Edge. If closing and reopening it doesn't restart the browser process, use edge://restart.
3. Enable or disable Use Windows folder icons under Favorites.

Once the mod is active, the setting applies immediately without restarting Edge.

Disabling or uninstalling the mod restores Edge's original folder icons in the running browser. Re-enabling the mod in that same Edge instance may require a restart; use edge://restart if closing and reopening Edge doesn't do it.

Features

Favorites

When Use Windows folder icons is enabled:

• Favorites bar folders, their drop-down menus, and folder drag images use the Windows system folder icon.
• The Favorites flyout, pinned Favorites pane, and Favorites page use Edge's older yellow folder icons instead of the newer monoline icons.

Notes

• Tested with Microsoft Edge 154.0.4258.37 x64.
• Edge controls its newer monochrome folder style through the msFavoritesMonolineFolder feature. The mod suppresses that path while the option is enabled. This keeps the implementation simpler and avoids hooking private Favorites menu/button classes.
• The older non-monoline path is still present in current Edge but may eventually be removed by Microsoft. If that happens, the yellow Edge icons in the Favorites flyout, pane, and page may no longer be restorable. The Windows icons on the Favorites bar, its folder menus, and drag images use a separate icon hook.
• The mod relies on Edge's internal native UI symbols, so Edge updates can occasionally require compatibility adjustments. If the required symbols aren't available, the folder-icon tweak is left inactive rather than partially applied.
• After an Edge update, Windhawk may need to download and resolve new msedge.dll symbols. The mod waits up to 5 seconds for cached symbols. If resolution takes longer, Edge continues with its normal UI while symbol preparation finishes in the background. A temporary tray icon shows the current status and notifies you when the symbols are ready; restart Edge once after preparation completes. If closing and reopening Edge doesn't restart the browser process, use edge://restart.
• A full fresh-symbol fallback can still take several minutes. In an Edge 154.0.4258.37 test with the local PDB and Windhawk symbol cache removed, msedge.dll.pdb was 676.0 MB (644.7 MiB) and total preparation took 515.1 seconds (8 min 35 sec) on a 75 Mbit/s connection and an Intel Core i7-8700K. The PDB download itself took about 8 min 32 sec, while symbol resolution after the PDB was opened took under 2 seconds. In this test Microsoft's symbol server delivered the .pdb directly rather than the compressed .pd_ variant, and effective transfer speed was only about 10.6 Mbit/s, so the download dominated the total time. Times vary with symbol-server/CDN throughput, connection, CPU, and Edge build.
• Disabling, updating, or uninstalling the mod while fresh symbol preparation is still running can leave Windhawk in uninitializing until that work completes. This is intentional: the symbol resolver can't be cancelled safely while code from the mod is still executing.
• Edge processes launched with --remote-debugging-pipe are intentionally skipped so automation sessions don't pay the native UI symbol-resolution cost.
• The Windows system folder icon is a raster icon. It doesn't follow Edge theme colors and isn't fully DPI-aware on high-DPI or mixed-DPI monitor setups.

Quick Explorer Switcher 1.0

Quick Explorer Switcher

When a program shows an Open, Save As or Select Folder dialog, this mod adds the folders currently open in File Explorer (up to 3) to the bottom of the dialog's navigation pane, most recently used first. One click and you're there.

Optionally, the dialog can open directly in the most recently used File Explorer folder.

Showcase

Details

• Folders are ordered by window Z-order, so the Explorer window you used last comes first.
• With Windows 11 File Explorer tabs, the active tab of each window takes precedence over the inactive ones.
• Duplicate folders are shown only once.
• Virtual locations such as "Home" or "This PC" are skipped by default (this can be changed in the settings).

Limitations

• Works with the standard Windows file dialog (Vista and later). Not affected: programs that draw their own dialogs, and legacy-style dialogs (programs that customize GetOpenFileName/GetSaveFileName with a hook procedure or a dialog template get the older dialog, which has no navigation pane).
• A dialog that is already open when the mod is enabled won't show the suggestions; they appear the next time a dialog is opened.

If you don't want the mod in a specific program (for example, a browser that already remembers its download folder), exclude it in the mod's Advanced tab.

Explorer Visual Tweaks Dark 1.0.0

This mod fixes visual inconsistencies in Windows Explorer and related windows, primarily in the standard dark theme. It brings the Preview Pane, plain-text preview, drive progress indicators, item selection, and Navigation Pane focus states to a consistent appearance, and allows their colors and rounding to be customized. The selection and progress renderers aren't tied to a particular theme. Their default colors are tuned for the standard dark theme, but can be changed to suit another theme. The Preview Pane correction is intentionally inactive in the standard light app mode, where the original color mismatch doesn't exist. Selection styling applies to Explorer and Explorer-based Open/Save dialogs. Drive progress rendering replaces only the PROGRESS part/state pairs used by Explorer. Preview Pane fixes cover Explorer, Open/Save dialog hosts, and prevhost.exe. Selection and Progress settings apply immediately.

Screenshots

Explorer selections and drive progress Preview Pane and plain-text preview Important: Preview Pane tweaks require restarting File Explorer and any included host applications for changed values and colors to apply correctly. A restart is also required after disabling the mod to fully restore the default Preview Pane appearance. To style an Explorer-based Open/Save dialog, add its host application to Windhawk's Inclusion List.

Power Action Countdown 1.2

Power action countdown

Shows an individually configurable countdown before Windows shuts down, restarts, enters sleep, or enters hibernation. A value of 0 disables the countdown for the corresponding action and executes it immediately. Values above 30 seconds are limited to 30 seconds.

The countdown is cancelled by:

• any keyboard key
• a mouse button
• the mouse wheel
• a touchscreen press on the overlay

Moving the mouse alone does not cancel the countdown. The cancelling input is consumed and isn't forwarded to the application underneath the overlay.

The countdown is displayed on the primary monitor. Keyboard and mouse-button input on other monitors still cancels it.

Screenshot

Power action countdown

Scope and limitations

The mod targets power actions initiated through the Windows shell. It is loaded into:

• explorer.exe for classic shell power paths
• RuntimeBroker.exe because current Windows 11 builds can delegate Start-menu power actions to a runtime broker

Power actions initiated by shutdown.exe, Task Manager, the Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen, the sign-in/lock screen, or arbitrary third-party applications aren't covered unless they ultimately call a hooked API from one of these processes.

Troubleshooting

Enable mod logging in Windhawk's Advanced tab. When an action is detected, the log states which Windows API was intercepted. The exact API used by Windows can differ between builds.

Windows Vista/7 Logoff Screen Restorer 1.0.0

Windows Vista/7 Logoff Screen Restorer

This mod shows a Windows Vista/7-style full-screen confirmation (dimmed desktop, a list of your open programs, and "Force log off"/"Cancel" buttons) right before a log off, shut down or restart started from Explorer, whenever programs are still open.

The files on the system are not modified. A program that refuses to close, for example because of unsaved work, is not force-closed, so Windows may still show its own "app is preventing shutdown" screen afterwards in rare cases.

Screenshots

Windows 7 Logoff

Windows Vista Logoff

Features

• The mod shows every open program in a scrollable list, with icons just like Windows Vista/7 did. Programs that have stopped responding are marked "not responding" and listed first.
• If nothing is open, the screen doesn't show up at all and the system goes straight to shutdown.
• The mod includes two skins to choose in the settings: Windows 7 (blue Aero) or Windows Vista (red button) and the changes apply instantly.
• The mod is translated into 21 languages, matched automatically the system language (or pick one manually in settings).

The mod has been tested on Windows 10 21H2, Windows 11 24H2, and Windows 11 25H2.

Try it without logging off

To try the mod without logging off, you can enable a preview shortcut in the mod's settings (previewHotkey) and press it any time to preview the screen. The preview shortcut is off by default. Win+L can't be used as a shortcut — Windows reserves it for locking the PC.

Requirements

• Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64 bit)

Safety Notes

• If the screen is ever left open too long, the mod closes it automatically after 60 seconds and lets the logoff/shutdown continue and it never forces programs to close on its own and never destroys unsaved work.
• The mod only shows a visual screen and it doesn't touch any system files or settings, and doesn't write anything to the registry.
• Turning the mod off from Windhawk removes it completely.

Relation to win7-bsdr

Unlike win7-bsdr, which hooks LogonUI.exe and winlogon.exe, this mod runs entirely inside explorer.exe: no LogonUI.exe setup it is essentially a confirmation on every shell-initiated shutdown.

Credits

• Cips — testing on Windows 11 25H2

For any suggestions or problems it is recommended to contact the author of this modification.

WinDraw - Screen Inking & Annotation 1.0.0

WinDraw - Screen Inking & Annotation

A complete, zero-bloat, hardware-accelerated screen annotation and drawing suite running as a dedicated, high-performance tool process powered by Direct2D, DirectWrite, and Windows Imaging Component (WIC).

WinDraw Inking & Annotation

WinDraw Radial Quick Menu & Shapes Flyout

Complete Feature Set:

1. Instant Activation & Dismissal:

   • Press Ctrl + Alt + G (customizable) anywhere in Windows to begin annotating immediately.
   • Press ESC or click the ✕ Exit button to dismiss the overlay.
   • Ink strokes survive dismissal so you can re-open WinDraw without losing your work. Press C (Clear All) whenever you want a completely fresh canvas.

2. Hardware-Accelerated Inking & Brushes:

   • 144Hz+ butter-smooth Direct2D drawing with quadratic Bézier curve interpolation.
   • Pen Mode (F key): Solid color inking with subpixel accuracy.
   • Highlighter Mode (H key): Translucent alpha-blended highlighting.
   • Mouse wheel or [ / ] keys dynamically resize brush thickness with a real-time 1:1 circular indicator dot showing active color and zoom level.

3. Shapes & Geometry:

   • Freehand (F key)
   • Straight Line (L key)
   • Arrow (A key) with automatically oriented sharp arrowheads
   • Rectangle / Box (R key)
   • Ellipse / Circle (O key)
   • Triangle (T key)
   • Hold Shift while drawing to snap lines to 45° increments or constrain rectangles and ellipses to perfect squares and circles.
   • Floating Shapes Flyout Modal for visual selection.

4. Custom Color & Opacity Studio:

   • Click the + slot in the toolbar or press 5 to open the full-fledged Color Studio.
   • Interactive 2D Saturation-Value picker and continuous 360° Hue spectrum slider.
   • Live Opacity / Alpha slider (5% to 100%).
   • One-click Eyedropper tool to sample any pixel color directly from your desktop.
   • Hex code display with Copy to Clipboard button.
   • Stores and displays your Last 5 Recent Colors palette across sessions.

5. Circular Radial Quick Menu:

   • Quick Right-Click Tap: Opens a sleek circular radial menu centered at your cursor with an orbital color ring, quick tools, and smooth sector hover animations.
   • Layer 2 Satellite Fan: Hover over the top Recent Colors hub to smoothly fan out your latest 5 custom colors in an orbital satellite arc.
   • Hold & Move Right Mouse Button: Instant stroke-level eraser with circular radius indicator.

6. Collapsible Floating Toolbar & Status Pill:

   • Windows 11 Fluent dark acrylic styling with specular highlights and subtle group dividers.
   • Drag the toolbar anywhere on your multi-monitor desktop.
   • Minimize Button (B key): Collapses the full bar into an ultra-compact status pill showing active ink color and grip handle.
   • Click the pill in-place to expand it, or drag the pill to park it anywhere on screen.

7. Vanishing Neon Laser Pointer (D key):

   • High-visibility neon glowing laser pointer bead with multi-tier glow aura.
   • Temporary fading laser trails that dissolve smoothly after a configurable duration (200ms to 5000ms).
   • Scroll wheel while in Laser mode instantly adjusts trail persistence.

8. Interactive Grid System (G key):

   • Dot Grid and Graph Lines Grid overlays.
   • Flyout modal allows switching styles and toggling density between Fine, Medium, and Coarse.
   • Press Shift + G to cycle grid density (Fine → Medium → Coarse) directly from the keyboard.

9. Region Snipping & Full Screenshots:

   • Region Snip (S key): Click and drag a selection rectangle to crop and copy/save a specific screen region.
   • Full Snapshot (Ctrl + S): Captures the full annotated screen to the Windows clipboard (CF_DIBV5 / CF_DIB / CF_BITMAP) and auto-saves to %USERPROFILE%\Pictures\WinDraw\.

10. Pan & Zoom Canvas Navigation:

    • Pan Mode (P key): Click and drag to reposition drawings across large canvases.
    • Canvas Zoom: While holding Pan or using the mouse wheel, smoothly zoom in and out (15% to 800%) centered on the cursor.
    • Reset View: Press 0 (while in Pan mode) or Ctrl + 0 (any mode) to reset zoom to 100% and pan offset to (0, 0).

11. Pointer / Click-Through Mode (M key):

    • Allows interacting with underlying Windows applications and games while keeping your drawings overlaid.

12. Ink History & Visibility:

    • Undo (Ctrl + Z) and Redo (Ctrl + Y).
    • Clear All (C key) with full undo support.
    • Hide/Show Ink (V key): Temporarily toggles drawing visibility without clearing strokes.

13. Customizable Cursor Style & Size:

    • Crosshair Style: Displays a crisp, dual-contrast precision crosshair with configurable arm size (8px to 32px) and an active color/eraser center indicator across Pen, Highlighter, and Eraser.
    • Live Brush Style: Displays the exact footprint and diameter of your active brush, highlighter, or eraser with real-time color fill and dual-contrast outline.

14. Temporary Whiteboard & Blackboard Mode (K or Alt + B):

    • Multi-Monitor Display Targeting: Left-click the Whiteboard button on the toolbar to open a Fluent modal flyout where you can choose backdrop styles (Transparent, Whiteboard, Blackboard) and target displays (Active Screen (Follows Cursor), Primary Screen, specific monitor Screen 1, Screen 2, or All Screens).
    • Live Reference Screen: On multi-monitor setups, isolate your whiteboard/blackboard to a single monitor while keeping your other monitors 100% transparent live desktop for reference documents, IDEs, or communication apps.
    • Ephemeral Mode: Automatically resets backdrop on ESC while keeping your ink strokes intact.
    • Full Snapshot & Snip Support: Captures solid background and all ink strokes when taking snapshots (Ctrl + S) or snips (S key).
    • Smart Contextual Grids: Automatically adapts grid line colors (dark charcoal on white paper, vibrant cyan on dark slate).

Keyboard Shortcuts Reference:

Better Volume Mixer 1.0

Better Volume Mixer

A simple volume mixer for Windows 11. Control your overall volume and individual apps from one small window.

Better Volume Mixer demo

Click the speaker icon in the system tray to open or close the mixer. If it is hidden, open the tray overflow menu and drag the icon onto the taskbar.

• Adjust each app's volume with its slider or mute button.
• Scroll over a slider to change the volume with your mouse wheel.
• Click the pin beside an app to keep it at the top.
• Use Previous and Next when there are more apps than fit on one page.

Choose your theme, background transparency, animations, and apps per page in the mod settings. If an app is missing, keep the mixer open and play some audio in it. Apps on other output devices are remembered after playing while the mixer is open, until their audio session ends.

Hide the Windows volume icon

To avoid having two volume icons, install Taskbar tray system icon tweaks and enable Hide volume icon in its settings. This hides the Windows 11 volume icon while keeping Better Volume Mixer's icon visible.