Getting all of this to work on Windows seems like a bit of a thankless task. If customisability is important, why wouldn't you just go over to Linux?
Platform lock-in is powerful, from the M$ Office Suite to professional software for CAD up to Games
The beauty and terror of modding Windows
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Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#42Somewhat related: A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker" that added a lot of nice things to Windows 7, like reordering the tasks in the taskbar. Now I'm remembering that the best feature was to ungroup the windows of the same task, that was super nice to edit two documents in Word It used a lot of magic, probably overwriting dll calls in the kernel of Windows. It looks like it only partially support Windows 11…
Wasn't that taskbar/windows thing just a toggle in official taskbar settings?
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#43Somewhat related: A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker" that added a lot of nice things to Windows 7, like reordering the tasks in the taskbar. Now I'm remembering that the best feature was to ungroup the windows of the same task, that was super nice to edit two documents in Word It used a lot of magic, probably overwriting dll calls in the kernel of Windows. It looks like it only partially support Windows 11…
A replacement for the ungrouping with WindHawk is https://windhawk.net/mods/taskbar-grouping. There may be other mods that also cover that.
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#44>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities TIL those exist (genuinely). I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
That's honestly more narrow-minded by you, than those "not moving from the default". Maybe you're the one that never went deep into the rabbit-hole of what's possible, or actually properly learned to use the OS?
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#45>If you dig through Windows enthusiast communities TIL those exist (genuinely). I’ve never met anyone who likes windows, just people who put up with it for work/gaming and people who doesn’t care about the whole thing enough to move from the default (which is totally understandable).
There are so many Windows users that even if the percentage of enthusiast users is only 10% of that of Mac, it's still quite a lot of people.
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#46Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#47I gave up modding windows in any meaningful way after the several times I was left with a machine which was unstable, or had some other issue, or simply became 100% broken after a windows update was pushed to my machine. It's a corporate operating system, not a user operating system. If you want to customise your desktop experience and have a stable time of it - this is not your platform, sorry. There is really only…
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Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#48Somewhat related: A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker" that added a lot of nice things to Windows 7, like reordering the tasks in the taskbar. Now I'm remembering that the best feature was to ungroup the windows of the same task, that was super nice to edit two documents in Word It used a lot of magic, probably overwriting dll calls in the kernel of Windows. It looks like it only partially support Windows 11…
Wasn't that taskbar/windows thing just a toggle in official taskbar settings?
I recall that the official setting was everything grouped or everything ungrouped. What GP is referring to is probably the ability to break out a single window from a group.
Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#49Re: The beauty and terror of modding Windows
#50Somewhat related: A long time ago, I used "7+ Taskbar Tweaker" that added a lot of nice things to Windows 7, like reordering the tasks in the taskbar. Now I'm remembering that the best feature was to ungroup the windows of the same task, that was super nice to edit two documents in Word It used a lot of magic, probably overwriting dll calls in the kernel of Windows. It looks like it only partially support Windows 11…
Wasn't that taskbar/windows thing just a toggle in official taskbar settings?
See https://superuser.com/questions/559782/windows-7-taskbar-nev....
There is a difference between grouping and combining, and 7TT provided many more options.