What's this bs?

This mod was abandoned months ago, but due this post https://www.reddit.com/r/Windhawk/comments/1vg5b18/mod_request/ I realized that some people actually wanted this, so i decided to work on it a bit and upload it to windhawk

So, I love the new LiquidGlass theme from the Start Menu Styler. But I was wondering if I could possibly make it darker, similar to the taskbar below (WindowGlass theme is use from the Taskbar Styler).

If anyone could kindly send me their Mod Settings and possibly steps on how to make it darker, if possible, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hey everybody!

Some days ago, I shared a Mod for fixing the dark menu issue of Adobe apps on Windows here. But for some reason that method didn’t work for Photoshop! So I managed to build a mod that fixes the dark menus also in Photoshop!

It’s called “Photoshop Dark Menus,” and it works independently from the other mod and there are no conflicts. It is now available on Windhawk library and you can search for it on Explore section:
https://windhawk.net/mods/photoshop-dark-menus

Give it a try and let me know what you think, or if you find any bugs.

Cheers!

In the first one one you see the marker below the icons has changed to show how many windows each app has open.

In the second one there's a bubble on the top left showing a number.

Do you think this would be an improvement?

White Oak (Day/Night) - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2911866381
Cold (Rainmeter) - https://visualskins.com/skin/cold
WindHawk Mods -

• TAI (taskbar as island) for Windows 11 - https://github.com/DarkionAvey/windhawk-taskbar-centered-condensed/blob/main/assembled-mod.cpp
• Customize Windows notifications placement
• File Explorer WinUI-Like Content Animation
• Nilesoft Shell Animator
• Resource Redirect
• Taskbar Auto-Hide Instant Show
• Taskbar auto-hide when maximized
• Taskbar Clock Customization
• Taskbar Dock Animation
• Taskbar Fluent Media Player
• Taskbar tray icon spacing and grid
• Taskbar Volume Control
• Windows 11 Notification Center Styler
• Windows 11 Start Menu Styler
• Windows Animations

Video Showcase - https://jumpshare.com/share/oexJkgfy259LqZefI6xq

EDIT: the mod window animations was causing it, turning off Animate restoring fixes the issue.

Everything was working fin, now when I minimize then open it again that part turns black. I have to close then open it back so it’s clear again.

Hi all,

Sharing with everyone my current layout that I am satisfied with. Taste is subjective, but im happy to share this with those in a similar situation as I am. Open to mod suggestions you may have. Quick summary below. Mod list at tail of video & bottom of post

• Corporate Machine
  • Sys Ad blocked, UAC (portable install)
  • Minimal load impact (16GB RAM)
  • Needs to be refined to not impact productivity
• Island style taskbar
  • Wide screen friendly (office monitor 1920 x 1080; home monitor 3440 x 1440; laptop 1920 x 1080)
  • Maximized window friendly (respects the island as a taskbar; will not interfere with MS Teams or other apps when typing in a text box, which usually forces to hide typical docks)
  • Maximized window friendly (island will not too look out of place when windows are max which make the left right empty parts stick out; will depend on your desktop BG though)
  • Muted colour (not too distracting but pleasant enough)
  • Taskbar height 48 (default) with 0 Float and 22 sized Icons (Default 24)
  • Taskbar can also resist an all white background (MS Excel sheet behind it wont fade text)
• Functional
  • Assisted column expansion for File explorer details view
  • maximized win native clipboard
  • Calendar / notif flyout closer to center (widescreen)
  • Quick launch for other tools
  • System telemetry hidden but can be viewed via Clock customization tooltip hover
• Premium Dark / Minimal / Native
  • Or at least id hope so
  • white win logo
  • minimal colour
  • Glass Taskbar
  • Slim white text on TaskBar for refined and functional look
  • Translucent windows with applied custom exclusion list
    • Credits to u/Verition response to a question on this sub
• WIP
  • Targeting to apply elements at other touchpoints for themed look
    • Start menu
    • volume slider
    • notifs
    • flyouts
    • alt + tab windows
    • unified blur effect between explorer and taskbar (translucent by undisputed vs island look)
    • Mirror font style of left and right elements (song tite & Time; artist & day, date)
    • calendar flyout maybe better if it slides from the bottom. Something about from thin air

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All props go to the proper authors. Most mods with their own tweaks except for the island taskbar which had to be made via YAML edit on Taskbar styler (with the use of m417z's taskbar styler guide and ChatGPT).

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• m417z
  • Shell Flyout Positions
  • Slick Window Arrangement
  • Taskbar Clock Customization
  • Taskbar height and icon size
  • Taskbar tray icon spacing and grid
  • Taskbar Volume Control
  • Windows 11 File Explorer Styler
  • Windows 11 Taskbar Styler
• Salyts
  • Taskbar Fluent Media Player - tbh this was the gateway drug
• Armaninyow
  • File Explorer Details Auto-Fit Columns
• meteoni
  • Startup App Delay Fix
• Mgrmjp
  • Taskbar Restart Explorer
• Ph0en1x-dev
  • Taskbar Dock Animation
• takattowo
  • Expanded Clipboard (Win+V)
• Undisputed00x
  • Translucent Windows

SnapSentry 0.16.0

SnapSentry

Watches your Windows Screenshots folder, wherever it is, and handles new screenshots as they are saved. Copy the image, delete the file after a delay, or choose what to do from a notification.

The SnapSentry notification

Clipboard modes

• Image copies the picture so it stays pasteable even after the file is deleted.
• File copies the file for pasting into File Explorer. Deletion is disabled.
• Path copies the full path as text. You can pick plain text, a quoted path, a file link, or a Markdown image link, which is handy for pasting a screenshot straight into notes or a bug report. Deletion is disabled.
• None leaves the clipboard unchanged.

Naming

You can have SnapSentry rename each new screenshot from the window that was in front when it was taken, together with a timestamp, so a file ends up named for what it shows instead of Screenshot (1). The file stays in the same folder.

The notification

The popup is a real Windows notification, so it matches your light or dark theme. While the popup is turned on, SnapSentry registers itself with Windows so the notification buttons work, and turning the popup off or disabling the mod removes that registration again. If the notification can't be shown, SnapSentry falls back to a standard dialog. If you have turned its notifications off, it takes that as a cue to stay quiet: it still copies to the clipboard but shows no dialog and never auto deletes.

Privacy

SnapSentry treats any supported image written into the watched folder within the last few seconds as a new screenshot. Files that were already there, and copies of older images dragged in or synced from another device, are left alone. A brand new file saved or downloaded straight into the folder cannot be told apart from a capture, so avoid pointing the folder at a place where downloads land. By default a deleted screenshot goes to the Recycle Bin so it can be restored; if you turn that off, deletion is permanent. Deleting a screenshot does not remove copies already stored in clipboard history, cloud sync, backups, or other programs.

Hi Everybody, I just wanted to share this here in case anyone else on the Internet has been looking for a solution to this! Thanks to Windhawk, I finally managed to fix the long time annoying issue where After Effects menus don't follow the After Effects or Windows 11 dark theme using.

Mods you need to install:

• Dark mode context menus: Enables dark mode for all Win32 menus.
• Windows 11 Custom Title Bar Colors: Allows changing the color of title bar.

❓Question:

One question I have though is that the same does not work for Photoshop? Does anybody know what could be the issue or how to have dark menus also on Photoshop?

Thank you in advance and cheers!

Update: The post on Aftereffects subreddit is reinstated.

Windows SDR to HDR Tonemapping Fix 1.0

Windows SDR to HDR Tonemapping Fix

Viewing SDR content while using HDR in Windows causes washed out darker tones like shadows. This corrects it so that Windows uses a standard gamma curve. It should not affect native HDR content like games and movies.

A simple, accurate fix for washed-out SDR shadows in Windows HDR mode.

Comparison Image

See examples and read more on the win11hdr-srgb-to-gamma2.2-icm GitHub, an alternative icc based solution by dylanraga

DWM EOTF Gamma Curve

When Windows HDR is enabled, DWM converts SDR content to HDR scRGB using the sRGB EOTF (a ~2.2 power curve with a linear toe segment near black). This mod patches the DXBC shader bytecode embedded in dwmcore.dll at DWM startup, replacing the sRGB curve with a simple power-law gamma. This gives you direct control over the SDR-to-HDR tone mapping without permanently modifying any files on disk.

Originally based on dwm_eotf by ledoge (GPL-3.0), but expanded

How it works

When DWM starts, Windhawk injects this mod early, ideally before Direct3D initializes, so the patched bytecode is what D3D compiles from. The mod walks dwmcore.dll's read-only PE sections looking for DXBC shader blobs that contain all four sRGB EOTF float constants. When found, those constants are replaced with the equivalent pure power-law values and the shader checksum is recalculated so D3D accepts the modified bytecode.

When the mod is unloaded while DWM is running (e.g. Windhawk disabled or settings changed), all patched bytes are restored in memory. Note that the unload callback does not run at process exit, so no restore occurs at Windows shutdown; this is harmless since the process is terminating anyway.

Important: enable injection into dwm.exe

dwm.exe is a critical system process. Windhawk does not inject into it by default — you must explicitly allow it in Windhawk's advanced settings:

1. Open Windhawk → Advanced settings → More advanced settings
2. In the Process inclusion list, add dwm.exe
3. Click Save

Without this step the mod will be silently ignored.

Windhawk advanced settings

Usage

1. Enable Windows HDR in display settings.
2. Install and enable this mod.
3. Select your preferred gamma value in the settings below.
4. Log off and back in (or otherwise restart DWM) for the change to take effect.
5. To change the gamma value later, update the setting and restart DWM again.

Gamma reference

Value	Description
1.8	Bright and low contrast, legacy Mac standard
2.0	Compromise between 1.8 and 2.2
2.2	Default - Standard PC/monitor target, sRGB average and Display P3
2.3	Compromise between 2.2 and 2.4
2.4	Broadcast and HDTV, Rec.709 / BT.1886
2.6	Dark and high contrast, Digital cinema projection, DCI-P3

Known limitations

• Only applies when Windows HDR is enabled. With HDR off, DWM does not use this code path.
• Gamma changes require a DWM restart. D3D compiles the shader bytecode once at startup. Patching the bytecode after that has no effect until DWM restarts (log off and back on).
• Disabling the mod also requires a DWM restart. After unloading, shaders already compiled from the patched bytecode retain the power-law curve while newly compiled ones revert, leaving a mixed state until DWM restarts.
• Chromium-based browsers and Electron apps (Chrome, Edge, VS Code, Discord, etc.) switch between DWM's SDR compositing path and a direct scRGB path depending on tab/window content. Each transition passes one or two frames through DWM's patched SDR shader, which can produce a brief tone-mapping flicker. A per-app exclusion list is not feasible: the shader bytecode is patched once at DWM startup before Direct3D compiles it, the compiled shader objects are global across all windows, and patching or unpatching at runtime has no effect on shaders that are already compiled. The flicker is driven by Chrome's own mode-switching and cannot be suppressed from the DWM side.
• If the mod logs "No sRGB EOTF shaders found" after a Windows Update, the constant encoding in dwmcore.dll has changed format. Please file an issue.
• If the desktop stops rendering correctly after enabling this mod, boot into Safe Mode (Windhawk does not inject there) or start Windhawk with windhawk.exe -safe-mode, then disable or uninstall the mod.

Hey r/Windhawk!

I wanted to share an update on Taskbar Dock Animation Plus (currently at 6,200+ active users on the Windhawk repository).

This is a maintained fork of the original Taskbar Dock Animation mod created by Ph0en1x-dev, focused on full Windows 11 compatibility, multi-monitor stability, and positioning fixes.

Key Additions in this Version:

• Support for All Taskbar Placements: Works seamlessly whether your taskbar is positioned on the Bottom, Top, Left, or Right.
• Multi-Monitor Stability: Fixed crashes, scaling bugs, and mouse-leave issues when using multiple displays or mixed-DPI setups.
• Smoother Animation Transitions: The idle "breathing" and bounce animations now fade in/out smoothly instead of snapping abruptly.
• Instant Live Updates: Settings and position changes apply in real time as you move your taskbar, with zero Explorer restarts required.

Usage Tip:

If you use taskbar height or icon-scaling mods, keep the Max Scale at or below 130% to avoid icon clipping.

• Windhawk Mod Link: https://windhawk.net/mods/taskbar-dock-animation-plus
• Credits: Full credit to Ph0en1x-dev for the original concept and codebase.

Feel free to share any feedback, ideas for animation curves, or bug reports in the comments!