43rd release includes latest WinMac Menu version and bug fixes.

What's Changed

• Updated WinMac Menu to version 0.14.0 which includes:
  • large icons mode, which increases both icons and menu size at the root level (disabled by default)
  • define animation direction for opening menu in large menu mode
  • browse specific file/folder when adding/editing menu items
  • additional option to show menu icons only in submenus
  • ignore control triggers when full screen app is focused (with a possibility to exclude specific apps)
• Dock will now show icons of running applications as window thumbnails, which resembles macOS Dock behaviour

What's Fixed

• Broken Nexus Dock themes configuration files, resulting in incorrectly drawn dock elements

Full Changelog: #65

42nd release includes Hot Corners improvements, latest WinMac Menu version, new Windhawk mods, Dock themes improvements, and bug fixes.

What's Changed

• WinMac Menu:

  • updated to version 0.13.0

• Windhawk:

  • added Block Start Menu and Hosts mod, which replaced past method of blocking Start Menu from running in the background, now also blocking Search Host
  • added Center new Windows mod
  • added Paste Clipboard Content to Explorer mod, allowing to paste both images and text from clipboard as files
  • updated Auto Dark Titlebar mod to version 1.0.1

• Hot Corners:

  • replaced WinXCorners with newly rebuilt WinXCornersPlus, which includes multiple improvements and new functionalities like:
    • more hot corners actions
    • improved flyout animation and added support for configurable animation direction
    • added modifier key for invoking Hot Corners
    • added options to run application as administrator or with hidden tray icon

• PowerToys:

  • changed PowerToys Run Edge Extensions action keywords
  • re-enabled tray icon, now with monochrome icon enabled by default

• Nexus Dock:

  • changed corner radius to match Windows 11 default corner radius
  • added new themes with borders, to match Windows 11 flyouts design

• Keyboard Shortcuts:

  • Shift+Enter - rename objects in File Explorer or Desktop

• Open-Shell:

  • Removed. Its functionality was replaced by WinMac Menu Controls settings

• Other:

  • added WINMAC environment variable and added same to PATH variable, which includes a path to common WinMac binaries folder
  • SecureUXTheme is now removed and replaced with UXTheme Hook Windhawk mod

What's Fixed

• Auto Dark Titlebar mod preventing UWP/WinUI apps from starting
• WinMac Menu not registering Autostart entry correctly, preventing it from starting on boot
• WinLaunch not showing available apps on first launch
• custom OS themes not being applied upon installation
• blue folders theme not being applied correctly by Windhawk upon installation
• navigation pane toggle in context menu is now properly removed during uninstallation
• more leftover binaries, folders and environment variables are cleaned up during uninstallation
• more apps are now uninstalled noninteractively during uninstallation process

Full Changelog: #64

41st release includes integration of WinMac Menu as a Toolbar and a new WinMac Menu version, ton of new and UI improving changes to Windhawk mods, new keyboard shortcuts and many more!

What's Changed

• WinMac Menu:

  • replaced Stahky with WinMac Menu, which provides equivalent functionality through native integration with the Windows Taskbar as a toolbar (part of WinMac Menu component by default)
  • updated WinMac Menu to version 0.8.0, which includes new features like:
    • new menu item types like Force Quit to forcibly end a foreground app, This PC and Home which dynamically displays the contents of This PC and the user folder respectively
    • improved handling of long lists of files/folders in sub-menu
    • sorting options

• Windhawk:

  • added Toggle Hidden Files with Ctrl+H in File Explorer and Desktop, replacing its implementation as an AutoHotkey keyboard shortcut
  • added Hide Quick Access Pins for File Explorer
  • swapped placement of Windows 11 tray flyouts elements vertically, to adapt to taskbar position
  • replaced Windows 11 Start Menu Styler with new Windows 11 Settings Styler mod
  • new mods like UXTheme Hook, Shrink Address Bar Height and Auto Dark Titlebar
  • updated out-of-date mods

• PowerToys:

  • replaced Peek with QuickLook, which allows to be used in Open/Save dialog boxes
  • added new PowerToys Run extension called Web Search Shortcut to quickly use specific search engine via keyword prefixes

• MacType:

  • changed to default font rendering, as opposed to older defaults which are intended to be used with OLED monitors (previous ini files are still included)

• StartAllBack:

  • Notification Bell is now hidden upon installation
  • enabled "Store and display recently opened items" by default

• Open-Shell:

  • changed Modern Shutdown to be triggered with Shift + Mouse Click on Start Menu icon instead of Shift + Windows key

• Nexus Dock:

  • more Dock themes and Indicators with different colors and sizes
  • disabled Activation acts as a toggle

• Keyboard Shortcuts:

  • Win+f - trigger FancyZones Layout Editor
  • Ctrl+, - trigger Edge or File Explorer settings
  • Ctrl+Shift+l - copy current path in File Explorer
  • Ctrl+Shift+g - trigger Copilot in Edge address bar
  • Ctrl+Shift+f - search favourites in Edge from address bar
  • Ctrl+Shift+a - search tabs in Edge from address bar
  • Ctrl+Shift+h - search history in Edge from address bar
  • Ctrl+Shift+d - duplicate tab in Edge
  • Ctrl+Shift+z - reopen last tab in Edge

What's Fixed

• disabled the native Windows 11 Start Menu to prevent it from being triggered accidentally
• winver not being restored after uninstalling WinMac Menu
• clcd function going to wrong directory when custom folder name is used
• Command Palette kept running after installing PowerToys
• certain PowerToys Run plugins were installed with 64-bit version for ARM PCs
• MacType starting slowly upon Windows startup
• updated ThemeSwitcher script to be compatible with Auto Theme Switcher Windhawk mod
• icons not scaling properly in WinMac Menu
• replaced explorer.exe file in Resource Redirect Blue folders theme with explorer.dll to mitigate problems with Windows Security
• ptr cli not being detectable by Terminal because of issues with adding its root folder to a PATH environment variable

Full Changelog: #61

40th release includes improvements for Terminal and Dock, and WinMac Menu version update.

What's Changed

• updated WinMac Menu to version 0.5.0 with visible tray icon and GUI settings window
• Nexus Dock adjustments:
  • disabled Activation acts as a toggle (shows if hidden, hides if visible)
  • disabled Activate if hidden when an application in the dock requests attention
  • enabled Bring dock forward on mouse over
• PowerToys Peek is now natively activated with Spacebar
• enabled Predictive IntelliSense function
• new function clcd which clones git repository and goes to newly created folder upon completion
• cl alias for git clone command
• added $script:RandomStringAlwaysExclude variable in PowerShell Profile to define characters to be excluded for Get-RandomString function

What's Fixed

• updated ThemeSwitcher script with new path to Nexus Dock assets

Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.3.2

39th release includes various bug fixes and UI adjustments.

What's Changed

• System Tray flyouts slide animation now start from the top instead of bottom
• adjusted WinMac menu position to align with other flyouts
• current theme mode is now automatically detected during the installation process
• added Shift + left mouse click action to Start Orb, which triggers Modern Shutdown dialog

What's Fixed

• PowerToys installation not starting
• Nexus Dock assets now deploy correctly to new directory (changed from C:\Users\Public\Documents to C:\ProgramData)
• updated Windows 11 File Explorer Styler mod in Windhawk to fix misaligned command bar in Modern File Explorer

Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.3.1

38th release includes newly developed WinMac menu, new keyboard shortcuts, send to Programs folder action and few UI adjustments.

What's Changed

• newly developed WinMac menu to fully resemble functionality of Apple menu
• added Send To Programs (create shortcut) action in file context menu
• hidden redundant Accounts option in System Settings
• globally replaced Winver run command with WinverUWP
• applied blue Peek folder icon in its titlebar, when Blue folders theme is selected during installation
• reduced modern File Explorer command bar height
• new keyboard shortcuts:
  • Win+Q - trigger Alt+F4
  • Ctrl+Shift+C - copy current URL in Edge

What's Fixed

• app switcher not properly switching between File Explorer windows
• terminal prompt showing ~ when in folder with the same name as username
• keyboard shortcuts errors are forced to handle them silently instead of displaying prompts

Additionally I've created two new repositories:

• Windows XAML Styles with custom Windows XAML styles for Windhawk's various XAML styler mods for Windows 11
• WinMac Menu

Full Changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0

37th release includes new and updated Windhawk mods, refreshed and recompiled WinMac menu, new keyboard shortcuts known from macOS and Linux, updated Action Center, File Explorer and System Settings styles, new set of cursors and a lot of QOL changes.

What's Changed

• Windhawk changes:

  • Windows 11 Start Menu Styler mod - improves System Settings looks, incl. removal of Home page and changing the pill shaped search box, more info here
  • Custom Shutdown dialog mod - default shutdown dialog is now replaced by modernized version with buttons instead of drop-down list
  • Remove Command Bar mod - removes Windows 7 command bar in File Explorer (disabled by default)
  • updated Windows 11 Notification Center Styler mod with Action Center style adapted to taskbar placement
  • updated Windows 11 File Explorer Styler to enforce Mica blur on WinMac modern and Windows 11 default File Explorer command bar
  • updated Resource Redirect themes with more icons/dll files

• WinMac Menu changes:

  • rewrote executable in C for faster response time and built separate ARM native executable
  • replaced Programs and Features option with Windows 11 native Apps and Features
  • added Task Scheduler option
  • replaced Desktop option with File Explorer

• Keyboard Shortcuts changes:

  • Alt+Backspace acts as a Delete key, similar to how it works on macOS
  • Ctrl+H to hide/show hidden files in File Explorer, similar to how it works in various Linux distributions
  • changed default maximize shortcut to Win+Enter
  • changed default minimize shortcut to Win+M

• disabled PowerToys Thumbnail Icon preview for svg in File Explorer add-ons, and replaced it with ThioJoe's SvgThumbnailExtension

• changed PowerToys Peek default activation shortcut to Alt+Shift+Space to not interfere with apps triggered with Alt+Space like Copilot, ChatGPT and etc. (Spacebar trigger introduced with v1.1.0 is not impacted)

• updated StartAllBack tray icons settings to show Windows 11 flyouts by default

• new set of modern cursors for both light and dark mode

• added SecureUXTheme installation to support custom themes

• disabled tray icons for PowerToys, Everything, Nexus Dock and Windhawk

• adapted Theme Switcher to apply custom themes

• Winstep introduced with Nexus Dock v25.6 a shortcut known from Windows to show full context menu of dock items (right mouse click on icon when holding shift)

• Winstep introduced with Nexus Dock v25.7 a possibility to show system tray icons in dock

• added various Windows logo icons in Winstep Icons folder (%PUBLIC%\Documents\Winstep\Icons)

What's Fixed

• Open-Shell installation file blocked from running on Windows 11
• Nexus Dock context menu was hard to read on darker backgrounds when Light theme was selected
• WinverUWP installation failing because of dependencies

Updated additional utilities with Battery Flyout, to replace current battery tray icon, which doesn't show battery flyout by default, as it was deprecated in Windows 11 24H2.

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.2.0

36th release includes support for Windows 11 LTSC versions, new PowerToys Run plugin and Peek QOL change, bug fixes and installation improvements.

What's Changed

• added support for Windows 11 LTSC/IoT LTSC
• added Edge Workspaces plugin to PowerToys Run
• Peek can now be triggered only with Spacebar, without impacting interaction with File Explorer and Desktop
• removed icon overlay from thumbnails in File Explorer, to resemble macOS design
• Nexus Dock now installs through Winget
• MacType now installs through Winget
• added correctly sized Copilot task icon for Nexus Dock

What's Fixed

• PowerToys Run not changing its theme when using Theme Switcher
• ls function showing incorrect folder name in error message
• PowerToys Run assets and additional plugins not deploying when yellow folders theme is selected

Updated additional utilities with virtual desktop manager called SylphyHornPlusWin11.

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.1.0

35th release includes bug fixes and installation improvements.

What's Changed

• Nexus Dock installation now runs in elevated session by default
• added prevention from running install/uninstall scripts in non-admin session
• added functions to navigate to Home, Desktop and OneDrive folders in Terminal

What's Fixed

• Blue explorer folders appearing in Yellow Folders icon set
• Nexus Dock registry entries not applying correctly, preventing Theme Switcher from working

Full Changelog: v1.0.1...v1.0.2

34th release includes bug fixes.

What's Fixed

• black cursor not deploying to Windows, when choosing Dark Theme mode during installation
• dark themed Recycle Bin icon not applying in Explorer upon installation and while using Theme Switcher
• Nexus Dock custom separator not applying upon installation
• Other Settings component getting stuck during installation
• Explorer not restaring after installation has finished
• Open-Shell now installs through Winget

Full Changelog: v1.0.0...v1.0.1