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- Quick Launcher
PowerToys brings a macOS Spotlight functionality to Windows with PowerToys Run. It allows users to quickly search for files, applications, and settings on your system.
By pressing a customizable hotkey combination, a search bar appears, enabling users to type their query and quickly launch or access the desired item without navigating through menus or directories. Besides PowerToys Run, this utility allows for many OS customizations, like FancyZones, Always On Top, Peek, Color Picker, Find My Mouse and File Explorer add-ons, improving your workflow in many different ways.
- Dock
Winstep Nexus is a highly customizable and feature-rich dock application for Windows that can be used to achieve a macOS-like dock experience. It offers a wide range of customization options, including size, animations, sounds, auto-hide, transparency, different themes and icons.
By integrating Winstep Nexus into WinMac modification, it provides users with visually appealing and functional dock that resembles the macOS style, while keeping Windows 11 design principles. This will enhance the overall user experience and make the transition between Windows and macOS seamless.
- Hot Corners
Make your screen corners trigger actions like on macOS, with available actions like creating/showing/hiding notes, showing launchpad, running explorer windows, task view, show desktop, hide all unfocused windows among other useful actions. With WinXCorners you can customize up to 4 custom commands.
- Enhanced Start Menu
WinMac Menu is a collection of customization utilities, that allows to bring Start Menu replacement for Windows. You can replace traditional Start Menu with customized WinX menu, to resemble Apple menu, or enable enhanced classic Start Menu. More details on Wiki page Configuration.
- Enhanced Taskbar
StartAllBack enhances the functionality of the Windows Taskbar by introducing features inspired by earlier versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 10. It brings back familiar elements like colored title bars and different positioning options.
Additionally, StartAllBack offers options for customizing the appearance and behavior of the Taskbar to suit individual user preferences, including taskbar size, position, dynamic transparency, tasks alignment and tray icons spacing.
Stahky allows to create shortcuts for taskbar, that show custom context menus which can include settings and control panel shortcuts, website shortcuts or any other files and folders.
- Enhanced Explorer
StartAllBack extends its enhancements beyond the Taskbar with the Windows Explorer, providing users with more streamlined and efficient file browsing experience, by bringing back older versions of Explorer from Windows 7 or Windows 10.
Tools introduce features such as ribbons, tabs, customizable toolbar buttons, enhanced file previews, and improved navigation options. With StartAllBack and PowerToys, you can personalize your Explorer interface to better suit your workflow and access files and folders more efficiently.
Windhawk introduces explorer mods, that enables to see folder size, hide dot files and folders, and set custom name for explorer windows.
Additionally, deployment script includes pinning User folder, Start Menu Programs folder and Recycle Bin to Quick Access, cleaning up context menus and navigation pane.
- Enhanced Terminal
WinMac provides improved prompt with addition of completion functions and most commonly used commands in macOS or Linux, like vim, grep, touch, ditto, top, whatis, killall, ll, tree with additional commands like history, computerinfo, battery, backup, ntop, rcopy, brew among ton of other functions. More details on Wiki page Commands Cheat Sheet.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
WinMac provides very useful keyboard shortcuts from macOS with use of AutoHotkey, which is an automation scripting language for Windows. Shortcuts include hiding/showing dock, minimizing single or all windows and cycling through windows of the same app. More details on Wiki page Keyboard Shortcuts.
- Enhanced Icons
Refresh your Windows 11 experience with new set of icons applied to many old and new Windows components like Explorer, Control Panel items, Windows Tools, various context menus, default and user folders, and many more.
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EasyLauncher batch script allows the installer to be run as a GUI or in a terminal to make the installation and configuration process simple and straightforward.
You can choose between full or custom installation, if you only want to install specific WinMac components.
WinMac is supported by Windows 11, on both x64 and ARM based platforms.
You can also install WinMac on Windows 10 22H2+, with some caveats described here.
For the most reliable deployment process, I recommend to check Installation Guide wiki page.
Wiki have ton of very useful information, which can help you understand WinMac components capabilities and configuration to modify them to your liking.
List of utilities and their creators, used with WinMac:
- PowerToys by Microsoft
- Everything by David Carpenter
- StartAllBack by Tihiy
- Open-Shell by Open-Shell
- TopNotify by SamsidParty
- Stahky by joedf
- AutoHotkey by AutoHotkey Foundation
- Nexus by Winstep
- NewModernWinver by torchgm
- Windhawk by Ramen Software
- WinXCorners by vhanla
- Simple Sticky Notes by Simnet
- WinLaunch by jensroth
- PSTree by santisq
- ntop by gsass1
- ptr by 8LWXpg
Please support creators however you can for their wonderful work!
Keep in mind that StartAllBack is not a free software and requires license to run permanently. Free version will stop working after 100 days.
WinMac is not planned to be used for business/earning purposes. If you're not okay with me using your software by installing it (using Winget) with Powershell deployment script, please let me know.
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