Customize your Windows desktop

Windhawk

Explore Windows customization mods, step-by-step setup notes, compatibility checks, and safer rollback advice for taskbar, Start menu, and File Explorer tweaks.

Windows 10 & Windows 11 • Stable release 1.7.3 • 2.0 alpha 8 available as preview

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Highlights

Focused Windows tweaks

Change individual taskbar, Start menu, Explorer and application behaviors without assuming every mod fits every build.

Mod source visibility

Review source code and affected processes before activating community modifications.

Reversible workflow

Back up settings, change one feature at a time, and disable a mod if Windows behavior changes unexpectedly.

Featured mods

Windows 11 Taskbar Styler

1.10 • m417z

Customize the taskbar with themes contributed by others or create your own

Windows 11 Start Menu Styler

1.7 • m417z

Customize the Start menu with themes contributed by others or create your own

Windows 11 Notification Center Styler

1.8 • m417z

Customize the Notification Center and Action Center with themes contributed by others or create your own

Taskbar Dock Animation

1.9.2 • Ph0en1x-dev

Animates taskbar icons on mouse hover like in macOS

Windows 11 File Explorer Styler

1.7.2 • m417z

Customize the File Explorer with themes contributed by others or create your own

Taskbar height and icon size

1.3.11 • m417z

Control the taskbar height and icon size, improve icon quality (Windows 11 only)

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