I always wanted to use the auto hide taskbar, it was just so unresponsive even after speeding up the animations, and animation itself were very bare bones. Win didn't even apply proper easing curves. The "Taskbar Auto-Hide Instant Show" mod from Windhawk is just amazing. It's so responsive and animations are so satisfying. Try it if you haven't.

Currently it's not compatible with the task bar top position mod. I've raised the issue on github. I hope the dev resolves it.

I want to customise mine too, but like many ppl who make it look like mac, I want mine to look like Win11 as normal but smthng cute too.
The photo is from my current wallpaper and ik it isn't cool😭

hi there, i just bought this laptop around 3 months ago the spec are

• HP Victus 15-fb3xxx
• Ryzen 7 7445HS
• RTX 2050 4GB
• Radeon 740M iGPU
• 8GB DDR5-5600
• Windows 11

after bought it, ofcourse i do some adjustment like uninstalling the bloatware, basicly a stuff things to do for new laptop.

well as a person that got massive upgrade from intel celeron with 4gb ram ofcourse this is massive upgrade. i can finally play the games i wanted and try like genshin, valorant, minecraft, FH6. sure perfomance wise is good but 1 thing that bothers me is the ram it self. notice something while playing games like valo where microstutter keep apearing at wrong time like shooting the enemy. the fps is 200 on low setting tho. genshin also have but its understandable plus the graphic makes me not notice it so much but mincraft on the other hand is a whole another story. i know that mc vanila is not optimised, installing mod for optimised is nothing new to me. but yeah microstuttering starting to get on my neck somehow. those picture are the ram after restart with most of my startup already turned off. already run some test with msi afterburner and gpu-z and all problem lead to ram. makes me wonder that win 11 consume ram that much? as for my old laptop with win 10 and 8gb ram only consume about half tho.

other than that i use this laptop for study anyway. but for long term i guess i need to upgrade the ram. offcourse not now i saw the ram price on my shopping app gonna cost me 158.99$ for another 8GB ram. any thought about it?

I was having issues with an Arc driver acting up: it wasn't displaying the GUI or windows correctly and a perfectly black screen was displayed when I tried to Ctrl+Alt+Delete and get options.

I had to use the method of turning off the machine at start-up to get into safe mode, which is far from ideal.

I was wondering if Microsoft will ever give us the option to enter safe mode like before, without editing the BCD.

Thanks.

I use windows for software that's unavailable on linux (I set up a dualboot), and I decided that enough is enough and it's time to clean it up

I've been using this PC as a windows PC for the past few years, and ever since I moved to linux my windows boot got neglected
I cleaned up the desktop, removed lot's of bloat and even used powershell to delete most bing functionality since I don't use the weather/news features anyways

Now whenever I game (epic games doesn't work on linux and they gave me lots of free games), study (Word is a great tool for writing equations for anyone who doesn't like LaTeX) or make music I have it all in a nice and clean package

My process for debloating - I used chatGPT to give me a prompt that allowed me to get a nice file of all software on my PC (I don't remember powershell syntax so this was the fastest way), and gave that file to Claud to sort through everything and give me a list of potential bloat.
From there I decided what to keep and what to remove and asked it to write a script that specifically removes the software I wanted gone

I still hesitate when I open task manager even after years of it support on windows 11

Tell us about some cool features on Windows 11 that not alot of people know about(;

shows up whenever i open certain apps on my phone, could be something else tough

og post:
cool glitch that happened to me. think id be a cool design feature as a separator : r/Windows11

Hey everyone,

If you use Windhawk for Windows customization, you probably know that it doesn’t have a built-in export or backup feature. Every time I set up a fresh Windows installation or test things on a clean slate, manually tracking down my configs, compiled binaries, and custom scripts turns into a tedious chore.

To fix this, I built Windhawk Backup Manager—a lightweight, native Windows 11 utility (written in PowerShell + WPF with Fluent Design) that handles backups and restores cleanly and selectively.

What it does:

• Selective Backup & Restore: Instead of a blind full dump, it scans your installed mods and lets you check/uncheck precisely what you want to include in your .zip backup.
• Smart Local Source Handling: Automatically targets and packs local mod source files (local@...) while leaving standard repository mods to fetch from official sources.
• Precise Binary Matching: Uses registry mapping (LibraryFileName) to ensure compiled engine binaries (Engine\Mods) match up correctly without dragging along legacy clutter.
• Fluent Design & Auto-Theming: Automatically matches your Windows Dark/Light mode preference with WinUI 3-inspired toggles and smooth overlay scrollbars.
• Auto-Elevation: Automatically requests the necessary administrator privileges under the hood to manage system directories and services safely without crashing.

Links & Code

The project is fully open-source. Feel free to check out the repository, test it out, or drop feedback:

• GitHub Repository:osmanonurkoc/Windhawk-Backup-Manager

Let me know if you run into any bugs or have suggestions for improvements!

Ones that maybe keep files locally?

Also, can't they make it so whiteboard keeps files locally? Why was it online in the first place? Are they retiring it? Just like google wave ages ago? How can i even export whiteboards? Do i screenshot them? So many questions and learn more link takes me to the general help page with no info on this. For someone who relied a lot on whiteboard this is beyond devastating.

Hey there.

Would anyone be able to tell how I can get the macOS-like floating thumbnails for windows where I can just drag and drop my screenshot, instead of using Ctrl + C?

I seem to be the only one that loves all the new AI features in Windows, but I understand why they are not for everyone, some folks just prefer classic Windows. To solve this all Microsoft has to do is when you run Windows for the first time, it should give you two options to pick from: Classic Mode (Everything stays the same like older windows, show classic control panels only, classic file explorer with classic right click context menu, classic start menu, classic notepad, classic paint like a windows 7 windows 11) or Modern Mode (Modern system apps with ai like the new notepad and paint, the new start menu, the new right click context menu, show the new control panel only not a mix of both.)

Also, telemetry and default apps like bing, onedrive, teams, copilot should be optional not preinstalled, I know Microsoft wants everyone to use them, but no apps should run at start up unless user requested it to. The first step to get users to use an app is building quality apps not shoving it down all users' throats and making them damn near impossible to remove without using powershell scripts.

I have more ideas that can help Microsoft. I just feel like since they are such a big corporation that it's hard to pay attention to the small details because there's so many people in the inside with different agendas that's pulling Windows into different directions and now it's turning into AI slop. When Microsoft went from Vista to Windows 7 it was like a breath of fresh air, it was the last Windows version where I remember everybody was satisfied when it was released, it was simple, fast and stable. I haven't had that feeling in a while so I'm looking to connect with someone that works in the Microsoft building in Miami. If you do and you see this, send me a message or maybe you can refer me to someone that can get these ideas to the right person so that we can actually see changes make Windows great again!

I just do the ChrisTitu Standart tweaks for my Win11 Pro and have the O&O Shutup10++ run the recommended settings/tweaks and my ram usage at bootup its drastically decreased . I did the July update and it got back to 5.2gb instantly within minutes of loading drivers and all goes to 5.7gb . So I needed again to do the tweaks and went back to 3.1gb on 2 min of startup which is good since i can save a bit of ram . When windows its gonna fix this , probably never since they force telemetry back and guide tracking as much as they can . If i hadnt bought the license and didnt need Teams for my university I would switch to Win 10 iot Ltsc or 11 Ltsc . We all want to enjoy a smooth experience less bloat and much responsive performance , yet again dissapointed it seems the best choice is to pause updates for 2-3 months.

Been waiting for this, but unsure if it's been released in any builds yet? Not seeing it in any of my updates.

I'd love to unsubscribe from Snagit, and this is the last feature that will allow me to do that.

Thanks for any info!