Top 8 C++ windows11 Projects

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1. ExplorerBlurMica

   1 8 2,239 8.0 C++

   Add background Blur effect or Acrylic (Mica for win11) effect to explorer for win10 and win11

   

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3. TaskbarXI

   2 12 1,579 0.0 C++

   An application written in C++ to modify the Windows 11 Taskbar.

   

4. Windows11DragAndDropToTaskbarFix

   3 58 1,491 4.2 C++

   "Windows 11 Drag & Drop to the Taskbar (Fix)" fixes the missing "Drag & Drop to the Taskbar" support in Windows 11. It works with the new Windows 11 taskbar and does not require nasty changes like UndockingDisabled or restoration of the classic taskbar.

   

5. LGTVCompanion

   4 101 1,109 9.2 C++

   Power On and Off WebOS LG TVs together with your PC

   

   Project mention: My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-30

   My dad's old Sanyo from early 90's did have brightness control buttons.

   https://github.com/JPersson77/LGTVCompanion

   I have a few extra buttons on my gayming keyboard that I pretty much never use, so I assigned three of them to a script that uses the above app to change brightness between 30/50/100.

6. AcrylicMenus

   5 7 658 4.2 C++

   Acrylic effect for all existing Win32 context menus

   

7. DiskInfo

   6 3 167 0.0 C++

   DiskInfo based on CrystalDiskInfo

   

8. ExplorerFrame

   7 1 73 10.0 C++

   ExplorerFrame is a program that resolves some improper behaviors caused by File Explorer regarding extending DWM frames into its client area.

   

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10. screen-melter

    8 1 42 4.8 C++

    Creates melting like effect on users screen.

    

C++ windows11 related posts

• Front-end for Windows32 Context Menu Customization

  2 projects | /r/madeinpython | 10 Oct 2023

• Get an acrylic and mica effect in Windows 10 Explorer using ExplorerBlurMica

  1 project | /r/desktops | 30 Apr 2023

• What are the upsides for going from windows 10 to 11 ?

  1 project | /r/Windows11 | 28 Mar 2023

• classic context menu with win11 acrylic effect, best of both worlds!

  2 projects | /r/Windows11 | 19 Mar 2023

• New taskbar design for better screen space usage

  1 project | /r/Windows11 | 9 Mar 2023

• Super slow & laggy context menu (Windows 11 22H2)

  1 project | /r/Windows11 | 27 Feb 2023

• Is there any chance the "drag a file to taskbar" fix could be backported to the 21H2 build?

  1 project | /r/Windows11 | 4 Feb 2023
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