Windows 11 has the settings Microsoft won’t give you, but this app does

Windows 11 is not a bad operating system. Most of the time, it runs well, looks good enough, and does everything I need from a daily driver without much drama. That is what makes its rough edges so annoying. The issue is not that Windows 11 feels broken; it is that it often acts strangely possessive over the small choices that shape how I actually use my computer.

These are not catastrophic flaws, and I do not expect Microsoft to turn every corner of Windows into a buffet of toggles. Still, too many useful options have been removed, buried, narrowed, or left out entirely, leaving you with a desktop that works fine until you try to make it behave the way your workflow already does. That pattern is exactly what a free, open-source tool called Windhawk is designed to fix.