I always want my Windows PC a simple way to tweek and tune without digging through endless settings. Winhance does the same. It is a single dashboard that allows me to customize, clean and personalize Windows, making it more comfortable to use.
A Swiss army knife for windows
Winhance is a free open-source tool for controlling, debloat and adaptation to your Windows computer. Like the Swiss Army knife, it allows you to remove your system settings for removal of pre-installed apps, optimize your system settings for safety, performance and privacy and even to adapt to certain aspects of the experience of Windows individualization without hunting through many menu.
Debaling your computer
The deblotting is a way to speed up your dull Windows PC, and the destruction makes the blotware easier to detect and remove. It scans your system for pre-installed apps and lishes them on software and app tab. Then, you can choose all apps or select something you want to uninstall.
To uninstall a program, select the item you want to remove and click remove selected itemsConfirm the action, and the Winhance will execute the expulsion script to uninstall the selected program.
The excavation in the menu of Windows alternative features reveals some alternative features that are not capable by default. For example, you can install and enable the hyper-V, which is usually not available to the home edition users. Similarly, you can enable Windows Sandbox on the Windows Pro and above versions and can even disable the controversial recall feature that is already installed on the Copilot+ PC.
Even the tool makes scripts and scheduled tasks to prevent even the Microsoft from the Windows updates from returning the apps removed on their system. Additionally, it is also possible to re-establish any pre-installed apps that you must have accidentally removed.
It is also interesting that external software section. This includes a list of popular and essential third-party devices that must be already installed with Windows. You can choose popular web browsers, optimization utilities, development apps, compression, productivity and remote access apps, and more.
You can save all your preferences in a configuration file, allowing you to apply similar settings quickly in many systems. This makes it very easy to manage new installations – simply import the file, and all your favorite settings will be automatically loaded, you will save each computer by manually configuring.
Adapt the safety, privacy, strength and windows update settings
The adaptation tab offers a centralized dashboard to fix your system’s safety, privacy and performance settings. Instead of navigating through several menu, you can quickly reach the required Windows options. For example, the Windows Security Settings Page allows you to adjust the user account control notification with a simple slider – something that usually requires excavation through Windows’s classic control panel options.
Special attention is paid to privacy settings, and for good reasons. Often, digging through privacy settings is a problem, and many users leave it on default settings. However, with the ever increasing concerns about data collection, destruction makes your Windows Privacy Settings easier. You can disable the history of activity, turn off the camera access, stop personal advertisements, and prevent corresponding experiences from collecting data about you.
Each setting shows a small warning icon to indicate whether the registry value is missing for any option or if the restart is necessary to apply changes.
Update The section addresses one of the biggest annoyance of Windows: automated updates and restart. With winhance, you can disable completely automatic updates or delay security updates for seven days. This lets you cure your updates. You can choose whether Microsoft Store Apps automatically updates, disable update information completely, outdates some drivers, and stop the automatic restart. If you are on a measurement connection, Winhance will prevent you from downloading the update in the background, giving you complete control over when and how the update is.
Power settings optimization also overtakes basic balanced/high performance options. You can enable hibernation mode, configure power throttleing, and even adjust CPU priority for gaming.
Talking about gaming, there is a complete gaming and performance section. This facilitates you to provide CPU and GPU priority, prefer network traffic for gaming, optimize visual effects, disable taskbar animation, adapt the file explorer search, enabling directx optimization and disable fastest startups to fix conflicts with your game.
In the information section, you can control what happens when a notification is received. For example, you can disable information by being displayed on the lock screen, closing system settings notifications, etc.
I recommend extracting time to go through them excessively so that when you are not actively using Do-Distorb Mode, you do not bother with information.
Customize Windows appearance and behavior
Whether you often switch from light to dark mode or need to adjust your taskbar settings, all this is in the customization tab. The Windows theme selector offers a simple light/dark mode togle, but is an automatic process an opportunity to switch between the mode depending on the day time.
But the real magic occurs in the taskbar and the menu starts the section. You can clean the taskbar to unnecessarily unnecessary items, with Copilots, now meet, task view, Windows chat icon, and search function, only the required file explorer icon.
When you can align the taskbar to the left, more options, such as the ability to hide the taskbar and change its behavior, can not yet make your way to humble.
The start menu optimization is equally broad. You can delete the recommended files, the show can disable recently added apps, lock some options, and even set more pin layouts.
Moving forward for explorer customization, you can force the file explorer to show the entire path in the title bar, show thumbnails, set DPI scaling to 100%, can show the file extension, or completely disable the status bar. For those who remember the old Windows experience, Winhance allows you to manually enable the classic reference menu in Windows 11 without modifying the Windows Registry, and even brings folder tips.
Room for minor annoyance and improvement
I faced some minor issues, although they are not a deal-breaker. For the beginning, Windows I could not detect the .exe file required to launch the app after installing it. It continued to return the original installer in the Windows search. To fix this, I created a shortcut for the .exe file from the app data directory and added it to the Start menu.
Another annoyance is that every time you close the app, the winner automatically rejuvenates you to the developer’s donation page. Unfortunately, there is no way to change this behavior in app settings. While the developer may be required for continuous development, no app is opening a new browser tab without consent, even once, there is a huge turn-off for me. I hope that we will get the option to get out of this behavior in future release.
Winhance is not just a feature-rich adaptation tool; It also exceptionally executes functions. Whether you want to install or delete apps, twitches system settings, or customize the system, every change seems comfortable. I did not see anything suddenly that is often associated with third-party adaptation tools.
The latest version, Winhance 5, has also ironed many issues harassing the previous version. The app window is now properly scales on all resolution, and better app installation progress reporting. This is not correct, certain. But, if you want a little additional room for adaptation and performance, then there is a great place to start destruction.
