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Windows-10 projects on GitHub
Tooling, tweaks, and apps specific to the Windows 10 release.
As of , the most-starred Windows-10 projects on GitHub are Microsoft-Activation-Scripts (194.9K stars), PowerToys (139.4K stars) and Win11Debloat (59.5K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 59 Windows-10 repositories with 1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was Microsoft-Activation-Scripts, with +125 stars in a day.
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+125Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts · ★ 194.9KMicrosoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is an open-source tool that activates Windows and Office using methods like HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS, plus troubleshooting tools for failed activations.
+124hongguo-desktop-releases
waligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releases · ★ 3.9KThis is the Windows desktop client for 'Hongguo' (红果), a short-drama (duanju) player app. It lets you browse, search and watch short drama series on a PC with local favorites and resume-watching, without needing an Android emulator.
+87Win11Debloat
Raphire/Win11Debloat · ★ 59.5KWin11Debloat is a lightweight PowerShell script that removes pre-installed apps, disables telemetry, and tweaks the interface to declutter and customize Windows 10 and Windows 11.
+76plexo
anmolkapil/plexo · ★ 4.6KPlexo is a desktop download manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux that speeds up a single download by pulling it over multiple network connections at once, like Wi-Fi plus a phone tethered over USB, instead of letting the extra connection sit idle.
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59 projects · by stars
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#1 · massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-ScriptsMicrosoft-Activation-Scripts
Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) is an open-source tool that activates Windows and Office using methods like HWID, Ohook, TSforge, and Online KMS, plus troubleshooting tools for failed activations.
- 139.4K
#2 · microsoft/PowerToysPowerToys
PowerToys is a collection of over 30 utilities from Microsoft that let you customize Windows and streamline everyday tasks, like a window manager, color picker, bulk file renamer, and more.
- 59.5K
#3 · Raphire/Win11DebloatWin11Debloat
Win11Debloat is a lightweight PowerShell script that removes pre-installed apps, disables telemetry, and tweaks the interface to declutter and customize Windows 10 and Windows 11.
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Files
46Kfiles-community/Files · C#Files is a modern, open-source file manager for Windows that helps users organize their files and folders, featuring multitasking, file tags, and deep system integrations.
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ExplorerPatcher
34.1Kvalinet/ExplorerPatcher · CExplorerPatcher is a Windows customization tool that restores and tweaks the classic Windows 10-style interface (taskbar, Start menu, Alt+Tab window switcher) on newer Windows versions like Windows 11.
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DevToys
32.1KDevToys-app/DevToys · C#DevToys is a desktop app that bundles 30+ small developer utilities (converters, encoders, formatters, generators, graphics tools, testers, text utilities) into one offline Swiss-Army-knife tool, so you don't need to use random untrustworthy websites for quick tasks.
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calculator
31.1Kmicrosoft/calculator · C#The official Windows Calculator that ships pre-installed with Windows, open-sourced by Microsoft — a modern Windows app written in C++ and C#, updated regularly with new features via the Microsoft Store.
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UniGetUI
26.6KDevolutions/UniGetUI · C#UniGetUI is a graphical interface that unifies your system's command-line package managers (WinGet, Scoop, Chocolatey, Homebrew, APT, DNF, Pacman, Flatpak, Snap, pip, npm, Bun, .NET Tool, and more) into one app, so you can discover, install, update, and uninstall software without touching a terminal.
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winget-cli
26.5Kmicrosoft/winget-cli · C++WinGet is the Windows Package Manager client - a tool for quickly discovering and installing the packages that make your PC environment special, straight from the command line.
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Scoop
24.7KScoopInstaller/Scoop · PowerShellScoop is a command-line installer for Windows that lets you install apps from the terminal with minimal friction, similar to Homebrew on macOS.
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Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller
21.9KBCUninstaller/Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller · C#Bulk Crap Uninstaller (BCU) is a free, open-source Windows uninstaller built for removing large amounts of applications with minimal user input. It also cleans leftovers and detects orphaned apps.
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FanControl.Releases
21.1KRem0o/FanControl.ReleasesFan Control is a highly customizable fan-controlling app for Windows: it drives your PC's CPU, GPU and case fans from temperature-based curves you design in a GUI.
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tiny11builder
20.6Kntdevlabs/tiny11builder · C#tiny11builder is a PowerShell script that automates building a trimmed-down Windows 11 ISO by stripping out bloatware like Edge, OneDrive, Xbox apps, Clipchamp, and more.
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TranslucentTB
20.6KTranslucentTB/TranslucentTB · C++A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent or transparent on Windows 10 and 11. It uses only a few MB of RAM and almost no CPU.
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ContextMenuManager
20.3KBluePointLilac/ContextMenuManager · C#ContextMenuManager is a Windows tool that lets you enable, disable, and customize right-click context menu items for files, folders, new-item menus, send-to, open-with, custom file formats, IE, and WinX menus.
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lively
19.8Klively-community/lively · C#Lively Wallpaper is a free, open-source Windows app that puts animated wallpapers and screensavers on your desktop — videos, webpages, shaders, even games — built on WinUI 3.
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Sandboxie
19.7Ksandboxie-plus/Sandboxie · CSandboxie is a sandbox-based isolation tool for Windows that lets you run or install untrusted programs in an isolated virtual environment without permanently modifying your drives or registry.
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CMWTAT_Digital_Edition
19.6KTGSAN/CMWTAT_Digital_Edition · C#CMWTAT (CloudMoe Windows 10+ Activation Toolkit, Digital Edition) is an open-source tool that activates Windows 10 and Windows 11 with a digital license. It is written in C# and has around 19.5k stars.
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Windows10Debloater
18.8KSycnex/Windows10Debloater · PowerShellA PowerShell script/utility that debloats Windows 10 by removing pre-installed apps, stopping some telemetry, preventing Cortana from being used as your search index, and disabling unnecessary scheduled tasks.
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WSABuilds
18.7KMustardChef/WSABuilds · PythonReady-made downloads of the Windows Subsystem for Android for Windows 10 and 11 PCs, with the Google Play Store (MindTheGapps) and/or Magisk or KernelSU root built in — so you can run Android apps without building WSA yourself.
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optimizer
18.2Khellzerg/optimizer · C#A free, open-source Windows utility that locks down privacy and security: it turns off telemetry, Cortana, OneDrive and other built-in components. The author recommends running it right after a fresh Windows installation for maximum benefit.
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Seelen-UI
18.1Keythaann/Seelen-UI · RustSeelen UI is a full desktop environment replacement for Windows 10/11 that lets you rebuild the taskbar, dock, app launcher, window manager, flyouts, and virtual desktops instead of just skinning them.
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NanaZip
15.9KM2Team/NanaZip · C++An open source file archiver forked from the source code of 7-Zip, rebuilt for the modern Windows experience with a Fluent-style UI, MSIX packaging and extra codecs and hash algorithms.
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EverythingToolbar
14.9Ksrwi/EverythingToolbar · C#EverythingToolbar integrates the Everything search engine right into the Windows taskbar, letting you instantly search files and folders without opening a separate app.
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Playnite
14.2KJosefNemec/Playnite · C#Playnite is an open source video game library manager and launcher. It brings games from third-party launchers like Steam, Epic and GOG, plus emulated titles, into one unified interface.
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Winhance
13.9Kmemstechtips/Winhance · C#Winhance is a free Windows enhancement utility that debloats, optimizes and customizes Windows 10 and 11, combining app management, privacy and performance tweaks, and theming in one GUI app.
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CustomTkinter
13.6KTomSchimansky/CustomTkinter · PythonCustomTkinter is a Python UI library based on Tkinter. It provides modern, fully customizable widgets so desktop apps get a consistent, up-to-date look across Windows, macOS and Linux.
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mactype
12Ksnowie2000/mactype · C++MacType is a Windows utility that replaces the system's built-in font rasterizer to make text rendering look smoother and crisper, closer to macOS-style anti-aliasing.
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mac-precision-touchpad
10.5Kimbushuo/mac-precision-touchpad · CA Windows driver that makes Apple MacBook trackpads and the Magic Trackpad 2/3 work as Windows Precision Touchpad devices on Windows 10, over USB, SPI or Bluetooth connections.
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optimizerDuck
10.5Kitsfatduck/optimizerDuck · C#A free, open-source Windows optimization app that gathers performance tweaks, privacy settings, bloatware removal and cleanup tools in one place, so you don't have to dig through the Registry, Group Policy or PowerShell.
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MediaCreationTool.bat
10.3KAveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat · BatchfileA universal wrapper script around Microsoft's official Media Creation Tool (MCT) that works for every Windows 10/11 release from build 1507 to 21H2, adding business-edition support and upgrade automation on top of the stock tool.
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Notepads
10.3K0x7c13/Notepads · C#Notepads is a modern, lightweight text editor for Windows with a minimalist design — a notepad replacement built to be blazingly fast and appealing to everyone.
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DeskBox
7KTianyu199509/DeskBox · C#DeskBox is a free, open-source Windows desktop organizer that adds native-feeling WinUI 3 widgets backed by real folders, plus extras like todos, quick notes, search, weather, and music controls.
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FluentCleaner
6.5Kbuiltbybel/FluentCleaner · C#FluentCleaner is a free, open-source alternative to CCleaner for Windows. It cleans junk files, browser cache, and temp data using the community-maintained winapp2.ini rule database, built with a modern WinUI 3 interface and no ads, upsells, or dark patterns.
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tubatools
5.5Kluolangaga/tubatools · C#TubaTools (图吧工具箱CE) is a community-driven, open-source Windows toolbox rebuilt from scratch on WinUI 3 and .NET 10, bundling 45 built-in utilities plus one-click launchers for 82 third-party tools for hardware diagnostics, cleaning, benchmarking and more.
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plexo
4.6Kanmolkapil/plexo · TypeScriptPlexo is a desktop download manager for Windows, macOS, and Linux that speeds up a single download by pulling it over multiple network connections at once, like Wi-Fi plus a phone tethered over USB, instead of letting the extra connection sit idle.
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dlssg_for_sm86
4.6Ksdli1995/dlssg_for_sm86 · HTMLDLSSG Native is a DLL mod that lets NVIDIA RTX 20 (SM75) and RTX 30 (SM86) series GPUs run DLSS Frame Generation in D3D12 games, even though NVIDIA doesn't officially support frame generation on those cards. It bundles its own C++ wrapper, PTX/Cubin kernels for both GPU generations, and the 310.1 inference model into a single DLL instead of using NVIDIA's original feature DLL.
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Mocreak
4.6KOdysseusYuan/MocreakMocreak is a one-click deployment tool that automatically downloads, installs and configures genuine-licensed Windows 10/11 and Office (2016-2024) on a PC, completely free of charge.
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wsl-dashboard
4Kowu/wsl-dashboard · RustWSL Dashboard is a GUI manager for WSL built in Rust with a Slint UI, letting you install, start, stop, unregister, and configure your WSL distros from one place with a lightweight, low-memory footprint.
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hongguo-desktop-releases
3.9Kwaligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releasesThis is the Windows desktop client for 'Hongguo' (红果), a short-drama (duanju) player app. It lets you browse, search and watch short drama series on a PC with local favorites and resume-watching, without needing an Android emulator.
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FluentTweaker
3.5Kbuiltbybel/FluentTweaker · C#FluentTweaker is a Windows tweaking app from the same author as FluentCleaner. Instead of cleaning files, it lets you adjust UI, taskbar, privacy, AI features, Explorer behavior, gaming tweaks, performance settings and hidden policies.
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SCSKiller
3KBlueHeisenberg/SCSKiller · C#SCSKiller is a free, open-source Windows tool that pre-compiles a game's shaders into your NVIDIA or AMD driver's cache before you play, so the game doesn't have to compile them mid-session and stutter.
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rawaccel
2.6KRawAccelOfficial/rawaccel · C#Raw Accel is a kernel-mode mouse acceleration driver for Windows 10 and 11, bundled with a GUI for tuning the acceleration.
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PersistentWindows
2.1Kkangyu-california/PersistentWindows · C#PersistentWindows is a Windows desktop utility that remembers where your windows were positioned and automatically restores that layout after events like waking from sleep, monitor connect/disconnect, resolution changes, or RDP reconnections.
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winutil-cn
1.1Kyasewang1337-svg/winutil-cn · PowerShellA Chinese-localized Windows 11 utility for managing software (install/upgrade/uninstall via WinGet or Chocolatey) and maintaining the system (tweaks, Windows Update control, Windows 10/11 ISO creation). It's a fork of Chris Titus Tech's Windows Utility, translated and maintained by Holha1337.
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BibaYanji
957Bibapcs/BibaYanji · CBibaYanji (笔吧验机) is a Windows desktop tool for checking a new or secondhand PC against its order spec: it auto-collects CPU, GPU, RAM, disk, network card, screen and battery info so you can verify them item by item and mark the machine as passed, plus it bundles keyboard, dead-pixel, camera/mic/speaker, stress-test and disk-benchmark checks.
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pinyon-shift
723arcanite24/pinyon-shift · PythonPinyon Shift is a Windows-only playable preview built from a native static recompilation of the Xbox 360 release of Forza Horizon, letting you build and run a working, imperfect version of the game from your own disc.
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try-omarchy-windows
636omacom/try-omarchy-windows · GoTry Omarchy for Windows runs the full Omarchy Linux desktop (Arch-based, Hyprland) inside a window on Windows 10 or 11, using QEMU on Windows' built-in hypervisor with GPU-accelerated rendering.
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hells-gate-recomp
572florinp93/hells-gate-recomp · C++It is a static recompilation port that brings the Xbox 360 version of Dante's Inferno to native PC, using the ReXGlue SDK to translate the original PowerPC XEX executable directly into C++ code that runs natively on Windows (D3D12) and Linux (Vulkan).
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umium
439hotline1337/umium · C++Umium is a security-focused anti-debugging and anti-reverse-engineering library for high-resilience Windows 10/11 x64 applications. It uses undocumented Windows NT system functions and runtime modifications to detect and neutralize debugging, memory tampering, or sandboxing attempts.
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allinonetools
396LinkMouseIndex/allinonetoolsA PowerShell tool that claims to give free, instant access to Steam's full game library (50,000+ titles) through a shared-account auto-login system, launched by pasting a single command into an admin terminal.
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AinanPlayer
331Ainanya21/AinanPlayerA native Windows media aggregation and streaming client: it pulls film and TV streams from TVBox/CatVod-style sources and plays them with 4K hardware acceleration in a WinUI 3 Fluent interface.
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1-Click-DLSS5
312reiluisii/1-Click-DLSS5 · HLSL1-Click DLSS 5 is an open-source Windows GUI tool that injects NVIDIA's DLSS 5 neural rendering (DLSS-NR, Ray Reconstruction, and synthetic DLAA) into almost any PC game, even titles that never shipped with DLSS support.
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palette-from-image-ai
300egotoadcitadel/palette-from-image-ai · PythonIt's a standalone Windows desktop app that pulls a clean, role-tagged color palette out of any image using an on-device vision model and perceptual color clustering, with no cloud upload or subscription involved.
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android_everything
299luli395/android_everything · PythonAndroid Everything lets you search your Android phone's files from Windows with the speed and feel of the Everything search tool, using ADB to pull file metadata into a local SQLite FTS5 index.
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The-Darkness-Recomp
298portingpete/The-Darkness-Recomp · C++It is a native Windows port of the Xbox 360 game The Darkness, built by statically translating the original 360 executable into C++ ahead of time and running it with a DirectX 11 renderer, no emulator involved.
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Game-Optimizer-CPUs-Threads-Optimizer
212charlie754/Game-Optimizer-CPUs-Threads-Optimizer · C++Game Optimizer is a Windows tray app that pins a chosen game (and its child processes) to the correct CPU cache complex using the Windows CPU Sets API, instead of using affinity masks, disabling SMT, or changing BIOS settings.
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UpdateLock
211hhht110/UpdateLock · C++This is a native Windows utility that automatically detects whether you're on Windows 7, 10, or 11, and applies the matching registry/service policies to turn off Windows Update, with a one-click way to undo it.
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deepseek-harness-desktop
190rrzu/deepseek-harness-desktopQuWork is a desktop AI workspace built for DeepSeek Harness, letting an AI Agent actually work on your desktop by combining conversations, files, and tasks in one focused environment.
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