Re:Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
by 3eb7988a1663 on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:08PM
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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.
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Re:Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
by y-c-o-m-b on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:21PM
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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.
Re:Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11
by 3eb7988a1663 on Saturday November 15, 2025 @02:30PM
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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.