Top 23 Windows10 Open-Source Projects

• MediaCreationTool.bat

  191 8,229 4.4 Batchfile

  Universal MCT wrapper script for all Windows 10/11 versions from 1507 to 21H2!

Project mention: Intel NUC1165 with EGPU | /r/eGPU | 2023-12-07

Very long story short - the only way I was able to get it to work without BSOD was to install the latest Canary build of Win11. I used this tool: Offline Insider Enroll because I'm running a bootcamp partition on an intel macbook pro. I also needed to use this tool to bypass the TPM check because the macbook pro is not officially supported: Skip TPM Check on Dynamic Update.

• Open-Shell-Menu

  254 6,212 6.6 C++

  Classic Shell Reborn.

  

Project mention: Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-09

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• WSABuilds

  27 6,177 9.5 Python

  Run Windows Subsystem For Android on your Windows 10 and Windows 11 PC using prebuilt binaries with Google Play Store (MindTheGapps) and/or Magisk or KernelSU (root solutions) built in.

Project mention: Can I emulate android on my steam deck? | /r/SteamDeck | 2023-12-08

There a plenty of Android emulators on Windows. There is also Windows Subsystem for Android with Amazon Appstore or WSABuilds with Magisk & Google Playstore.

• WinDynamicDesktop

  25 4,162 8.4 C#

  Port of macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature to Windows 10

• MSEdgeRedirect

  78 3,792 8.5 AutoIt

  A Tool to Redirect News, Search, Widgets, Weather and More to Your Default Browser

Project mention: Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-31

I use this: https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect and am very satisfied.

• privacy.sexy

  122 3,493 9.3 TypeScript

  Open-source tool to enforce privacy & security best-practices on Windows, macOS and Linux, because privacy is sexy

Project mention: Debloat Windows in 2022 | /r/informatik | 2023-12-11

• Win11Debloat

  8 2,422 7.8 PowerShell

  A simple, easy to use powershell script to remove bloatware apps from windows, disable telemetry, bing in windows search aswell as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your windows experience. This script works for both windows 10 and windows 11.

Project mention: The unreasonable effectiveness of i3, or: ten years of a boring desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-03

Scripts like https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat help, but should not be needed in the first place.

Note that modern Linux is also leaning towards the same trend. But i admit it is still much easier to avoid those for power users. Snap, i'm looking at you also...

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• ambie

  30 1,789 9.5 C#

  An app that uses white noise, nature sounds, and focus features to boost your productivity.

  

Project mention: How to configure true dependency injection in System.CommandLine | dev.to | 2023-06-20

Fortunately, System.CommandLine (in its current version, 2.0.0-beta4.22272.1) is highly extensible. In this blog post, I'll show you how to integrate true dependency injection using the official Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection NuGet package.

• windows11

  1 1,628 8.6 Batchfile

  🌎 Windows 11 Settings, Tweaks, Scripts (by awesome-windows11)

  

Project mention: How do i go about mastering Windows? | /r/Windows11 | 2023-11-28

• ViVeTool-GUI

  2 1,534 5.6 Visual Basic .NET

  Windows Feature Control GUI based on ViVe / ViVeTool

• WinPaletter

  10 1,255 9.7 C#

  Advanced Windows Appearance Editor

• Windows-11-Guide

  24 1,241 8.5 C#

  Windows 10/11 Guide. Including Windows Security tools, Encryption, Nextcloud, Graphics, Gaming, Virtualization, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2), Software Apps, and Resources.

• ImTip

  1 1,194 0.0

  通用输入法状态跟踪提示，仅用两个字符就可提示中英、全半角、大小写、中英标点、多语言键盘布局等所有状态。

• Windows-Optimize-Harden-Debloat

  1 1,010 7.6 PowerShell

  Enhance the security and privacy of your Windows 10 and Windows 11 deployments with our fully optimized, hardened, and debloated script. Adhere to industry best practices and Department of Defense STIG/SRG requirements for optimal performance and security.

• Firefox-Mod-Blur

  22 1,006 9.2 CSS

  Firefox Theme - For dark theme lovers / More compact / Modular / Blur

• Windows11_Hardening

  31 984 6.2

  a collection about Windows 11

Project mention: Share some articles you've saved | /r/privsec_dev | 2023-04-28

A collection about Windows 11 security https://github.com/beerisgood/Windows11_Hardening

• ExplorerBlurMica

  8 935 6.7 C++

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

Project mention: Get an acrylic and mica effect in Windows 10 Explorer using ExplorerBlurMica | /r/desktops | 2023-04-30

ExplorerBlurMica Tool: https://github.com/Maplespe/ExplorerBlurMica

• LGTVCompanion

  100 852 8.2 C++

  Power On and Off WebOS LG TVs together with your PC

Project mention: LG C3 42” + 4090 = gaming heaven | /r/OLED_Gaming | 2023-12-10

Planning on picking up this exact model soon, just wanted to share this to wake the tv on lan when waking pc from sleep: https://github.com/JPersson77/LGTVCompanion

• nightingale-rest-api-client

  5 707 7.6 C#

  A modern, resource-efficient REST API client for Windows

  

Project mention: Need help with Postman clone app idea | /r/dotnet | 2023-05-26

• TranslucentFlyouts

  7 705 8.1 C++

  Translucent effect for most of the win32 flyouts

Project mention: Front-end for Windows32 Context Menu Customization | /r/madeinpython | 2023-10-10

I've been working on a GUI program called Translucent Flyouts Config; it is a companion application for Translucent Flyouts for Windows 10/11, which allows various customizations for windows32 style context menus. I used PyQt6 for the same. I've made quite some progress in 3 months.

• Optimize-Offline

  6 700 0.0 PowerShell

  Optimize-Offline is a Windows 10 offline image optimization framework.

• oculante

  5 703 9.5 Rust

  A minimalistic crossplatform image viewer written in rust

Project mention: Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-16

While not CLI, I always look for cross platform image viewers and found https://github.com/woelper/oculante.

Had a few woes compiling it due to my laptops configuration, but once compiled it works with everything I would reasonably throw at it.

• VirtualDesktop

  1 592 10.0 C#

  C# wrapper for the Virtual Desktop API on Windows 11. (by Grabacr07)

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