Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 • Hacker News Board

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by remix2000 » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 11:51 AM UTC

Muromec wrote: post #106

remix2000 wrote: post #101

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> the likehood of random shmuk being coopted is much more likely in one case as opposed to another. I don't think Russians actually live in fear of the big brother, I wouldn't be friends with so many Russian femboys if that really was the case. But what do I know, it could all be a conspiracy. Edit: I also don't understand how torching police hqs makes the world a better, more peaceful place. At best, you'll just end…

>I don't think Russians actually live in fear of the big brother, I wouldn't be friends with so many Russian femboys if that really was the case. I'm not sure what it has to do with anything, other than you own ideas about what oppressive governments are up to. >makes the world a better, more peaceful place. the chain has to be yanked from time to time, otherwise the thing at the end of it tends to forget you are hol…

Not my own ideas, Russia criminalizes non-conforming gender expression. You'd think there would be no femboys if what you're saying held up

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 1:06 PM UTC

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #45

nodja wrote: post #36

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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.

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.

> Top tier malware can be incredibly terse and sophisticated.

Just like Windows. /s

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by hulitu » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 1:13 PM UTC

kh9000 wrote: post #100

I imagine it would be frustrating to be the windows shell dev who has to investigate the torrent of bizarre memory corruption bugs that inevitably occur on Windhawk users’ machines after major OS updates. There’s really no avoiding it when you detour unstable “implementation detail” sort of functions across the taskbar/systray/start/etc. especially now that c++ coroutines are in widespread usage therein. But to be fa…

> I imagine it would be frustrating to be the windows shell dev who has to investigate the torrent of bizarre memory corruption bugs that inevitably occur on Windhawk users’ machines after major OS updates.

What makes you think they will be bothered to investigate other's people bugs, when they don't investigate even their own ?

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by izacus » Sun, Nov 16, 2025, 7:48 PM UTC

rikafurude21 wrote: post #89

Lammy wrote: post #87

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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.

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.

Then stop accusing people of being criminals when they share their project here.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by hbzy792 » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 6:11 AM UTC

https://sourceforge.net/projects/windhawk/ this software is completely safe it is even available on sourceforge

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by Anixx1 » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 7:50 AM UTC

bongodongobob wrote: post #129

eviks wrote: post #128

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Do you have a specific example that broke update and didn't fully uninstall?

I don't need one. Look into how this stuff works. It's a pile of scripts and registry edits. It's very sloppy. Windows isn't Linux. The OS does not expect the user to do stuff like this and it's not built for it. This is how you get the "windows sucks it's always weird and broken" type people. Sure, you can do it, but you WILL have goofy unexplained problems if you mod your system with this stuff. If you want windows…

No mod makes irrevertible changed to your system. Any registry modifications, if recommended, are made by hand.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by wild_pointer » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 11:44 AM UTC

hbzy792 wrote: post #135

https://sourceforge.net/projects/windhawk/ this software is completely safe it is even available on sourceforge

This is malware, the project is on github

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by hbzy792 » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 2:30 PM UTC

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by Lammy » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 7:13 PM UTC

perching_aix wrote: post #119

Lammy wrote: post #115

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> You have a very interesting idea of prison life. That was intentional, because not only are you trapped and told exactly when and where to go by the obnoxious Cult Of Security, but every once in a while Windows Update and Windows Defender will come along and shiv you in the bathroom. Rev your system fans the moment you let your computer go “idle”, drain your battery in your bag, reboot out from under you, delete al…

The intent sure comes through (despite your attempts to conceal it), the reasoning doesn't. And it continues not to, not the least because of the desire for superiority relentlessly taking over you, muddying your rationale with persistent smug mockery and creative interpretations. So unfortunately no, I'll have to kindly refuse your request to respect all this.

> (despite your attempts to conceal it)

Huh? I am very open about what I like and why.

Re: Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11

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Post by __del__ » Mon, Nov 17, 2025, 7:14 PM UTC

reactordev wrote: post #38

Refreeze5224 wrote: post #33

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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.

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…

i did this in the 90s for some kewl showoff programs generating something or other. i assumed there would be a modern graphics framework and API now. still just intercepting that paint event eh?