ThisIsWin11 vs WinAppDriver

ThisIsWin11

The real PowerToys for Windows 11 (by builtbybel)

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WinAppDriver

Windows Application Driver (by microsoft)

Appium UI Testing test-automation windows-10

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ThisIsWin11		WinAppDriver
	Project
95	Mentions	7
5,097	Stars	3,476
-	Growth	1.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
11 months ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

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ThisIsWin11

Posts with mentions or reviews of ThisIsWin11. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-05.

Sold it. Bought Ally. Returned it. Bought SD back
2 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 5 Jul 2023
i genuinely need help, please take a look at the pic, it's a new gaming laptop btw
1 project | /r/pcmasterrace | 20 Jun 2023

Fresh copy of windows then run windows 11 debloat
Initial Impressions / Setup Tips (make sure you update EVERYTHING!)
1 project | /r/ROGAlly | 11 Jun 2023
Windows os with telemetry removed.
7 projects | /r/privacy | 30 May 2023
I Owe Valve An Apology
5 projects | /r/SteamDeck | 23 May 2023

Some tools made by people to reduce the bloat of Windows 10/11. Tell me why people would go through the trouble of developing these tools if Windows was bloat free? * https://github.com/builtbybel/ThisIsWin11 * https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas * https://christitus.com/debloat-windows-10-2020/ * https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater
Having trouble with Open World Games on Windows
1 project | /r/WindowsOnDeck | 18 May 2023

Try this: https://github.com/builtbybel/ThisIsWin11
Not even at gun point
5 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 10 May 2023

Here, if you use Belim's ThisIsWin11 you can get rid of all of the bloatware, install some really handy tweaks and extensions, and make your start menu look like this.
PSA: Windows 7 is not safe. You're not "cool" for using an unsafe operating system.
4 projects | /r/pcmasterrace | 10 May 2023

Move to Linux if you hate new Windows so much, install Windows 11 and strip it down, do something. But don't stay on an OS that isn't receiving security updates.
Did you move to Windows 11?
2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 10 May 2023
Most peaceful Windows vs Linux discussion
1 project | /r/pcmasterrace | 4 May 2023

Never log into Windows + ThisIsWin11

WinAppDriver

Posts with mentions or reviews of WinAppDriver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

Automated testing WPF app
2 projects | /r/csharp | 9 Dec 2023

We use WinAppDriver with appium https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver We are no longer developing the desktop application, but our Azure devops pipeline is still running the tests.
C# - Suggestions on automating windows desktop application?
1 project | /r/softwaretesting | 11 Apr 2023

It dead: https://github.com/microsoft/WinAppDriver/issues/1550
Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) With C#
1 project | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022

First Download the WinAppDriver installer from https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver/releases
Universal UI testing based on image and text recognition
5 projects | dev.to | 5 Jul 2022

I started looking for UI testing solutions for desktop applications. I quickly discarded expensive UI testing suites. WinAppDriver was very interesting, but one of the requirements was to add some kind of identifiers on every UI element that we wanted to interact with. This would have required a huge effort from the team.
Is there a way to open a program, do stuff inside it, then close it again with C#?
2 projects | /r/csharp | 31 Jan 2021

Appium and/or WinAppDriver are a newer alternative and pretty easy to use.
The Painful Parts of End-to-End Test Automation for your Windows Application
2 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

An automation tool to drive your application under test (AUT) - WinAppDriver & Appium
How do I go about automating features in Microsoft Teams?
1 project | /r/softwaretesting | 7 Jan 2021

Check out WinAppDriver (Windows Application Driver) by Microsoft. I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but the repo (link) has good examples in it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ThisIsWin11 and WinAppDriver you can also consider the following projects:

Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.

Winium.Desktop - Winium.Desktop is Selenium Remote WebDriver implementation for automated testing of Windows application based on WinFroms and WPF platforms.

ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows

FlaUI - UI automation library for .Net

Wu10Man - Enable/Disable Windows 10 Automatic Updates

appium-desktop - Appium Server in Desktop GUIs for Mac, Windows, and Linux

Custom-Resolution-Utility-ToastyX - Custom Resolution Utility for Windows by ToastyX, duplicated so the source won't be lost.

robotframework-appiumlibrary - AppiumLibrary is an appium testing library for RobotFramework

Open-Shell-Menu - Classic Shell Reborn.

Atata - C#/.NET test automation framework for web

Waifu2x-Extension-GUI - Video, Image and GIF upscale/enlarge(Super-Resolution) and Video frame interpolation. Achieved with Waifu2x, Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, RTX Video Super Resolution VSR, SRMD, RealSR, Anime4K, RIFE, IFRNet, CAIN, DAIN, and ACNet.

Oxygen - Functional-style C# Selenium wrapper for automated UI testing.