[HN Gopher] Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
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Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
Author : znpy
Score : 165 points
Date : 2025-11-15 16:53 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (windhawk.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (windhawk.net)
| throwaway270925 wrote:
| Wow, quite a lot of work, but the end result looks amazing!
| OsrsNeedsf2P wrote:
| Been playing around with this, it's more consistent than Windows
| 11's UI itself
| zerr wrote:
| I also do miss the Windows 7 Aero theme.
| accrual wrote:
| Me too! The Aero effect still holds up great today IMO.
|
| Kind of fun to imagine some hybrid between Aero and Apple's new
| glass effect. Imagine if Aero could "bend light" instead of
| just applying a blur effect.
| mattferderer wrote:
| Can't speak for this product but disabling a lot of the
| animations, gradients, shadows & visual effects has made Windows
| 11 run significantly better on the computers I have it on. They
| didn't seem to add much value anyways.
|
| I'm a fan of a lot of the user experience improvements being made
| in Windows over the last decade, such as Terminal, running Linux,
| Power Toys features, screenshots & recording, Paint finally
| getting layers, window management & more.
|
| At the same time, I'm still not sure why we needed Windows 11 as
| the only good updates seem like they could have been done without
| it. All the visual changes have seemed to cause bugs &
| performance issues on relatively high powered PCs (64GB+ memory,
| m2 ssd drives, latest gen mid level GPU & CPU)
|
| It seems the Windows ME, Vista, etc experiment continues to live
| on.
| Krssst wrote:
| Disabling animations makes everything better no matter the OS.
|
| When executing a sequence of actions, not having to wait
| 100-300ms for the device to show some random animation before
| inputing the next action is a time saver and a removes the "why
| is my computer/phone wasting my time" feeling.
|
| Human reaction time is around 200ms but in a sequence of
| actions, we don't need visual feedback to move to the next
| action; it's just muscle memory and we can reach pretty low
| delay between inputs if the OS and apps do not impede us.
|
| Back to Windows, I'm quite sad that 24H2 removed support for
| the legacy app switcher (alt-tab). It was very low latency and
| operated well in many high-load situations. The new one works
| okay but is not as snappy and can take a bit of time to show up
| under load. Plus I prefer the old style (smaller box, no need
| for eye movement to check its content).
| sudopsuedo wrote:
| Have you looked into SimpleWindowSwitcher?
| https://github.com/sigoden/window-switcher
|
| ExplorerPatcher makes it easy to configure in the settings
| menu, I'm not aware of any other projects that implement SWS:
| https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
|
| It's very fast and can be configured to set window thumbnail
| size/area
| Krssst wrote:
| Thank you, I was not aware of either of those.
|
| SimpleWindowSwitcher looks like a good alternative,
| unfortunately on my side I think I would prefer switching
| between all windows of all apps rather than have two
| different shortcuts for "switch between windows of the
| current app" and "switch between apps" (but that's just a
| personal preference).
|
| ExplorerPatcher looks cool too, though patching explorer is
| probably a no-no in corporate setups.
|
| I also saw https://github.com/kvakulo/Switcheroo which I
| was curious to try (although it's not an exact replacement
| either) but never got to it (also seems quite old).
| oezi wrote:
| I discovered Switcheroo two weeks ago and seeing it
| abandoned with over 30 forks with relevant commits made
| me want try to consolidate the forks and add my own
| flavor to it:
|
| First beta release at
|
| https://github.com/coezbek/switcheroo
|
| Noteable: column design for most frequently used
| applications and pinned apps shown separately.
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Not exactly alt-tab but it's a ui-less immediate switcher
| (snappy af, zero latency) to switch between windows of the
| same app with alt-backtick (next to escape), originally a
| macOS feature: https://neosmart.net/EasySwitch/
|
| (Backwards navigation with alt-shift-backtick)
| Krssst wrote:
| Thank you.
|
| Actually the registry entry on 24H2 behaves somewhat
| similarly: alt-tab still switches windows (of all apps) but
| the UI is just gone (which is a problem for me because
| knowing how much time I need to press tab in advance leads
| to faster switching than "press tab, see if the focused
| window is what I wanted, and press tab again if it's not"
| which involves a computer-brain round trip every key
| press).
| ComputerGuru wrote:
| Interesting thanks for sharing. I can see how that makes
| sense for switching apps but imho for switching windows
| of the same app that benefit is negated since the
| thumbnail (without intense scrutiny) is generally too
| similar between windows of the same app.
|
| (As a dev, I often have a dozen browser windows and a
| dozen or more terminals open, half a dozen IDEs, etc so
| being able to switch directly between instances if the
| same app, esp automatically filtering out minimized ones,
| is much faster than alt-tabbing through then all
| interleaved, and was my motivation for writing this.)
| thomastjeffery wrote:
| > Human reaction time is around 200ms
|
| Even if you are talking about the entire loop, that sounds
| pretty high. Maybe if its moving your hands in reaction to an
| unexpected stimulus in your feet...
|
| We can tell the difference between 60fps (~16ms per frame)
| and 120fps (~8ms per frame). Any more than that is a
| noticeable amount of waiting.
|
| It does get complicated, though. What if the information is
| presented immediately, _then_ animated? Well, that 's where a
| complete measurement of reaction time would be relevant.
|
| Even so, as you pointed out, we often predict what we will be
| doing in advance, and can perform a sequence of learned
| actions much more quickly. If there is a delay imposed before
| you can perform an action, then you must learn the delay,
| too. That learning process involves making mistakes
| (attempting the action before the animation is over), which
| is extra frustrating, considering how unnecessary it is.
| RamRodification wrote:
| https://humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime
|
| You'll probably see around 200ms. Not saying that's the
| relevant number in this discussion, but that's probably
| where the number comes from.
| thomastjeffery wrote:
| On mobile, I consistently get just under 400ms. I suspect
| using a mouse would get me closer to 200ms, since I would
| be resting my finger on the button.
|
| So yes, total reaction time is generally quite long, but
| most of that time is spent performing "action".
|
| That site would be more interesting if it provided a
| second interface where you do something predictable, like
| match a repeating beat.
| jstimpfle wrote:
| I agree there are many bad timer-waster animations. But
| animations can be a good thing. Take scrolling as an example.
| Pressing page-down on a text-page or in a text-editor,
| without animation, it takes me a lot of time and energy to
| find the place where I left off reading or editing before
| scrolling. A good animation can save a lot of time here. It's
| similar with other operations -- and I agree that those
| operations that we don't do that often tend to be the ones
| that profit more from animation, while the ones where we
| already know in advance what will happen can be made worse by
| animation. I think an animation should never slow down the
| user, they should not be blocking. An unfinished animation
| should not prevent the user from typing the next action.
| 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
| The Win11 screenshot tool is a travesty. It now takes multiple
| seconds to initialize, plus additional delay in actually
| selecting what you want to capture. The previous iteration was
| instantaneous. I have lost many opportunities to screenshot
| something from a screen share because of this trash
| performance.
| oezi wrote:
| Win+Print = takes screenshot and saves to
| Pictures/Screenshots/
| accrual wrote:
| I agree, even on fast hardware there is a lot of unnecessary
| delay trying to take a screenshot.
|
| My old workflow from the Win2k/XP days was: Print Screen, Win
| + R, type mspaint, Enter, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+S, Enter, done. Still
| feels faster than watching my screen fade in and out for the
| snipping tool.
| 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
| I too have had to resort to full page screenshots. Such a
| complete waste for a tool that was Done.
| mkl wrote:
| I've been using the open source ShareX screenshot tool:
| https://getsharex.com/
| netsharc wrote:
| They probably had to go to 11 (unlike Spinal Tap, Microsoft's
| 11 isn't awesome) because they added the TPM requirement. If a
| computer was Windows 10 compatible but not Windows 10 version
| 24Hblahblah, it would confuse the average user...
|
| Instead they can throw away their perfectly good computer and
| buy the confusion as a single package! Relax, the climate can
| take it!
| Veliladon wrote:
| > The mod injects only in the process Winlogon.exe, and exits
| once the handle of the memory area is closed. It does not hook
| any functions.
|
| Yep. Sure. Going to let a Russian utility fuck with winlogon.exe.
| Excellent idea.
| vunderba wrote:
| That was my first concern too, but it does look like you can
| build the binary from source:
|
| https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk
| icapybara wrote:
| Doesn't mean it's safe.
| moron4hire wrote:
| Yeah, I would probably delete this updater _if_ I were to
| try this: https://github.com/ramensoftware/windhawk/blob/ma
| in/src/wind...
| baq wrote:
| as opposed to any other updater on your system...?
|
| > Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to
| the Internet of Things! I control it all from my
| smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can
| give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!
|
| > Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of
| technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a
| loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an
| unexpected noise.
|
| -- https://imgur.com/6wbgy2L (actually a tweet from
| someone else, but apparently it's private now)
| moron4hire wrote:
| It's actually not completely outside of my threat
| profile.
|
| Honestly, with the prevailaince of ransomware attacks,
| unless you're a literal hermit, it shouldn't be out of
| anyone's threat profile.
| baq wrote:
| Absolutely. Sufficiently capable LLMs can mass produce
| exploits against whole ecosystems; recent Anthropic post
| moves the risk needle from 'theoretical' to 'realized'.
| Any auto-updating software is running a risk of its cdn
| and/or build forge being compromised. Scary times.
| m417z wrote:
| This is not an updater. Due to the sensitive nature of
| Windhawk, it has no auto-updating mechanism, only update
| notifications (this file is part of that).
| vunderba wrote:
| I didn't say it was. But having the source means you (and
| others) can vet the code if that's a concern.
| zerr wrote:
| Why such a simple UI utility app needed a VSCodium/Electron
| UI? The author seems to be well versed in Win32 API, so why
| not just learn the GUI part as well? It's not that hard.
| hackernudes wrote:
| I 100% agree with this sentiment
| m417z wrote:
| The reason the Windhawk UI is based on VSCodium is mainly
| for the mod editing functionality. VSCodium with clangd are
| used for C++ intellisense out of the box.
|
| You might say that many users don't care about mod
| development and don't need it. I agree, and I have it on my
| list to create a lite Windhawk version which doesn't depend
| on VSCodium.
|
| Note that VSCodium is only used for the UI. When Windhawk
| is running in the background, its memory consumption is a
| couple of MB.
| accrual wrote:
| Sounds like a reasonable trade off to me. Improves your
| dev experience and users still get a fast binary.
|
| Thanks for this by the way. Carrying the torch of Windows
| modding in the future!
| zerr wrote:
| I believe those who write C++ have already installed
| their favorite IDE or editor.
| sph wrote:
| And the author is a security/malware researcher. Yeah, you
| might want to pass.
| gruez wrote:
| >fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.
|
| That's mostly irrelevant because all the thing baddies want to
| do with your computer, they can do without touching winlogon or
| even getting admin.
|
| https://xkcd.com/1200/
| remix2000 wrote:
| Yeah, it would be so much better if it was American-made,
| because as everyone knows there are no corrupt people in the US
| and every person of Russian descent is a spy for their
| motherland's government (:
| Muromec wrote:
| Yes, it would be better if it was American made, because the
| US government has lesser capability to _compell_ otherwise
| independent developers to do their bidding.
| remix2000 wrote:
| You missed my point, which is that all governments exist to
| oppress by design, it's literally what governments are,
| they are businesses that monopolize violence. Some people,
| esp. people of the Western world are too arrogant to admit
| it. Personally, I would honestly rather trust someone who
| is aware of that fact over someone who isn't.
| Muromec wrote:
| Look, I'm as much an enjoyer of Kropotkin and von Mises
| as the other guy and torched more then zero regional
| police HQs in my life.
|
| You are right in principle, but there is a varying degree
| to which different governments actually oppress people
| and there are certain patterns of what to expect from
| which.
|
| I would not trust american company, like msft to not
| snitch to me to US government either, but the likehood of
| random shmuk being coopted is much more likely in one
| case as opposed to another.
| carlosjobim wrote:
| Look at the top of this page. It says "hacker news".
| Muromec wrote:
| just add the r===ain keyboard to input sources and you will be
| fine.
| ukuina wrote:
| This is so neat looking. Is there an equivalent for MacOS?
| gedy wrote:
| Not exactly afaik, but I've recently been going to System
| Settings > Accessibility > Display, and turning on:
| Increase contrast Reduce transparency
| Differentiate without color Show toolbar button shapes
|
| https://imgur.com/a/DqfN07k
|
| I like the retro and simple vibe compared to the new Liquid
| Glass controls.
| sfpotter wrote:
| Ah! Thank you! Even on Sequoia this is a massive improvement!
| gedy wrote:
| Great, glad to help. FYI there are similar settings for iOS
| and I do same on my phone.
| remir wrote:
| I wish there was a "power user" mode in Windows that you could
| activate and you'd get the ability to have classic themes (my MS
| themselves), classic Control Panel, no constant nudging, no
| weather/Xbox/Solitaire apps, etc...
| estebank wrote:
| They tried that during the Chicago development and discarded
| the idea due to multiple problems with how humans work.
|
| Two different UIs meant that you had to learn them separately,
| you didn't have a slow ramp from one to the other, one familiar
| with one could get stuck on the other with no knowledge of how
| to get back, divided efforts between the two, etc.
|
| Not quite what you are asking for, but closer to Win95 shipping
| with progman.exe which could allow someone to cosplay Win3.11
| while running Win95.
| senorrib wrote:
| And yet they seem to have lost all that knowledge from Win8
| onwards. WinForms, WPF, UWP, WinUI, MAUI... All of these with
| their own metaphores, design language, and they all feel
| half-baked, full of bugs.
| Dennip wrote:
| THe settings siutation is so annoying, there are still so many
| options locked away inside control panel and the new settings
| app has a few that dont exist in control panel, its so
| fragmented.
| accrual wrote:
| I find myself reaching for the Control Panel all the time in
| Windows 11. I won't go into the main settings panel unless
| it's the only way.
| anthk wrote:
| Windows' GOD mode CLSID:
|
| https://www.thewindowsclub.com/create-master-control-panel-g...
| mapontosevenths wrote:
| I used to use Stardock WindowBlinds to do something similar, but
| it leads to all sorts of weird compatibility issues with various
| applications.
|
| I wonder if this will have the same issues?
| keyringlight wrote:
| I find the various privacy and 'feature' disabling
| scripts/utilities questionable for a similar reason, it's
| moving outside of the expected behavior of the OS for how
| applications and future MS updates expect things to work. The
| core issue seems to be you're working against what MS want and
| they provide a moving target, functionally it's their system,
| not yours.
| m417z wrote:
| Hi, Windhawk author here. Nice to see it on Hacker News.
|
| This is just one Windhawk mod, submitted by a community member.
| There are hundreds others. Windhawk was created to simplify
| Windows customization and to make it more accessible, both for
| developers and users. For a more detailed introduction, check out
| the Windhawk release blog post:
|
| https://ramensoftware.com/windhawk
| rikafurude21 wrote:
| I've come across Windhawk before but the mods being just C++
| programs seemed a little suspicious to me, how do you make sure
| the mods dont include malware?
| Refreeze5224 wrote:
| Windows is weird. The way these mods work is injecting code
| into different processes, which is a very common malware
| technique. Keyloggers in particular work similarly to
| Windhawk. And that is not a swipe at Windhawk, that is just
| how Windows has you do this type of thing.
| reactordev wrote:
| What's really fun is hooking into the WM_PAINT event from
| the target processes main thread and then drawing your own
| controls over whatever was rendered...
|
| Overlays, AIMBots, Discord, Flight Sim Software, we all do
| it...
| blacklion wrote:
| `LD_PRELOAD` works on UNIX-like systems too.
| anthk wrote:
| Thanks to LD_PRELOAD you could downgrade tons of OpenGL
| effects and enforce some settings for high end games and
| make them playable with good speeds on legacy systems.
|
| Also to force texture sizes and whatnot.
|
| I wish Wine/Proton had options for those, to override
| antialising, texture sizes, rendering resolution and
| everything.
| nodja wrote:
| Windhawk mods are distributed as source code and WH itself
| compiles it. It works the same way usescripts work with
| tampermonkey/violentmonkey on browsers.
|
| If a mod includes malware it'll be very obvious as mods are
| usually small.
| 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
| Top tier malware can be incredibly terse and sophisticated.
| The trigger line to execute the xz exploit was a `.` in a
| build script. You are probably fine do to sheer obscurity -
| nerds who yearn for a Win9X experience are low in number
| and might only be running it for a laugh in a VM.
| y-c-o-m-b wrote:
| It's not just for "nerds" if that's what you're implying.
| I use the "Multirow taskbar for Windows 11" Windhawk mod
| because I recently upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows
| 11, which removed the ability to have more than one row
| on the taskbar.
|
| There's a malware risk in literally every piece of
| software. Windows itself behaves as malware with all the
| telemetry it gathers.
| 3eb7988a1663 wrote:
| The tiny fraction of computer users who have the
| capability and interest to do this qualifies as nerds in
| my book. I did not realize this was still a pejorative on
| a forum where we are mostly all technical experts in some
| domain or another. It is your computer - go nuts.
| m417z wrote:
| When you install or run a program, how do you make sure it
| doesn't include malware? I assume that you check for the
| author's record/reputation, and perhaps look at the source
| code if it's available.
|
| It's similar with Windhawk mods. The GitHub and X profiles
| are verified to be the profiles of the author, so you can
| decide whether you trust them. The source code is available,
| so you can inspect it as well. Mods are single-file and
| usually short, which makes it easier to review than an
| average program.
| orbital-decay wrote:
| To review these third-party mods one needs to understand
| C++, Windows programming, and fairly obscure theming-
| related parts of its internals, some of which are
| undocumented/reverse engineered, and many have poorly
| understood side effects. This is a pretty specific
| combination of skills that slowly approaches arcane status,
| even if might feel otherwise to some. But again, larger
| apps are indeed harder to review than this.
|
| (this particular mod is 100% innocuous, though)
| deburo wrote:
| Huh, with AI you can always "review" those mods. They are
| small enough. Anyway they are distributed via the
| creator's github repo, so it's already somewhat of a peer
| reviewed mechanism.
| Lammy wrote:
| FUD:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
|
| I'm so sick of people telling me to _BE AFRAID_. If you want
| to live without the risk of a little danger, go live in
| prison.
| rikafurude21 wrote:
| No one told you to be afraid, install anything you want on
| your computer. Personally I just dont want to deal with
| getting my logins and keys stolen. It'd be very annoying.
| y-c-o-m-b wrote:
| Thanks for making this a safe place to modify Windows in a
| community-driven fashion. I mentioned it in a comment below,
| but I use the "Multirow taskbar for Windows 11" mod and it's
| been a godsend for keeping things more organized as before. I
| appreciate you and the mod community.
| oybng wrote:
| It's incredible the effort Windows 10/11 users will go to in
| order to reach a somewhat functional and reliable computing
| experience via third party modifications, yet Linux is somehow
| too much effort. Just look at the instructions on that page..
| sockaddr wrote:
| "but he's sweet sometimes"
|
| It's just an abusive relationship and eventually some of them
| break out of it.
| WD-42 wrote:
| Linux isn't hard, it's just different. Better, but different.
| That's too much effort for some.
| linguae wrote:
| Some of us still rely on Windows applications that either don't
| run on Linux, can't run under Wine, or don't have alternatives
| that meet our needs.
| unleaded wrote:
| Every techie knows about Linux by now. Not everyone chooses to
| use Windows because they're foolish or don't know any better
| NaomiLehman wrote:
| why do they choose it?
|
| i have a windows workstation because one CNC machine that we
| use needs it. only other reason i can see is gaming?
|
| I have all 3 major OSs at home and, honestly, Windows 11 is
| stuff of nightmares to me
| y-c-o-m-b wrote:
| I've given some good reasons before:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858749
|
| The "solutions" provided to me so far for my primary issue
| (using Ableton Suite DAW) has not worked. There is no
| practical solution that allows this software to function in
| a Linux environment successfully. I can open the app, but
| that's the extent of it. It's not usable.
|
| > I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's
| several things holding me back. I do music production as a
| hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In
| fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without
| native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack
| developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't
| available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and
| more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through
| "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for
| compatibility.
|
| > The responses I got were to switch to different software.
| No, no, and no. I paid a lot of money for Ableton Suite and
| poured many many hours into learning how to use it; it's
| the DAW I prefer to use, I don't want to switch.
|
| > Having said this, I did try to dual boot recently with
| Linux Mint, and once again ran into headaches getting my
| Logitech mouse buttons to work.
| blacklion wrote:
| Adobe products, for example. Or any of other of miriad of
| other products which have only Win/MacOS and no Linux
| support.
|
| And, no, Wine cannot run anything.
|
| You see, I don't need OS at all, I need applications. Some
| of these applications are "universal" (FireFox, for
| example), some has good equivalents, and some are unique to
| OS.
|
| And, no, DarkTable, or RAW Therappe are not equivalent to
| Lightroom or Capture One. And no, there is no equivalent to
| foobar2000 among music players.
| anthk wrote:
| MPD + advanced clients pown foobar 2000 anytime. Also,
| Audacious, Strayberry...
|
| Audacious with audacious-plugins could play anything
| (even video game music files) and it still has ProjectM
| plugins' support.
| noosphr wrote:
| >And, no, Wine cannot run anything.
|
| Wine may not be able to run the apps you need, but it can
| run plenty. The older the software gets the more wine
| becomes the only option to run it.
| ac29 wrote:
| You can run nearly any Windows app with winboat. Its not
| based on wine, it runs real windows in a container.
| 1bpp wrote:
| Creative Cloud and DAWs. Those are my only reasons and
| basically the only reasons I ever hear from people. A Linux
| port of Photoshop would probably put a small dent in
| Windows' market share at this point.
| system2 wrote:
| A foolish take, makes me believe you didn't really work in the
| real world. Because the entire global computer ecosystem is
| built on Windows-compatible software. Finance, accounting,
| medical, car diagnostics, and even HVAC software are built
| windows-compatible-only only.
|
| Don't get me wrong, I use Xubuntu on my crappy old devices,
| Ubuntu on my secondary mini-pc, and switch between them with
| KVM while working. I tried to make Linux work for everything
| but missing industry software made it difficult.
| thewebguyd wrote:
| Don't bother. HN has a very hard anti-Microsoft bias,
| especially when it comes to Windows. At the same time will
| completely overlook many of the same warts or different warts
| that exist on macOS or Linux because they get a free pass for
| some reason.
|
| Despite its flaws Windows still remains a very capable
| workhorse general purpose OS, and with WSL dev is a non
| issue. Hell, having actual Linux is better than the macOS
| Frankenstein Unix and homrbrew
| accrual wrote:
| For some it's just fun. Changing things because we can. I was a
| huge tinkerer in the XP days, I'd test out every tweak and tool
| I could get my hands on and would reinstall the OS every couple
| months. I'd use Resource Hacker to change out the XP flag
| icons, put my initials on the start button, etc. It wasn't
| about making it more usable so much as it was just making it
| mine.
|
| It makes me happy to see newer generations still doing the same
| stuff, granted its much more complex to do this work on Win11
| vs XP.
| venusenvy47 wrote:
| Most of us are forced to use it because of corporate IT
| requirements.
| Kwpolska wrote:
| Windows 11 user here. I use zero third-party modifications.
| Some people are masochists.
| wild_pointer wrote:
| Indeed, some people are :)
| 1970-01-01 wrote:
| Classic Windows (95-7) was the best era for Windows and always
| will be the best in terms of GUI. Everything that came after 7
| has been a downgrade from 7's GUI.
| roughly wrote:
| The description of how this works gave my inner ops guy a panic
| attack. I love this kind of hack.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| I've tried these things before. Use with caution, and definitely
| not on a work device. They never fully uninstall and you might be
| left with incorrect registry keys and other weirdness. May break
| updates as well.
| rkagerer wrote:
| _They never fully uninstall_
|
| Ugh, you'd think we'd be better by now.
|
| I've had good success with Total Uninstall for this problem
| (with software in general). It does a diff of your registry and
| filesystem before/after installing an app, and after uninstall
| highlights lingering remnants. Over time you and it "learn" to
| filter out background changes unrelated to the install process.
| bsnnkv wrote:
| Would love to see someone running this theme + a tiling window
| manager!
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