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Windows-11 projects on GitHub

Tooling, tweaks, and apps specific to the Windows 11 release.

As of , the most-starred Windows-11 projects on GitHub are Microsoft-Activation-Scripts (195K stars), PowerToys (139.5K stars) and Win11Debloat (59.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 63 Windows-11 repositories with 1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 18 was Win11Debloat, with +246 stars in a day.

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Win11Debloat

Raphire/Win11Debloat · ★ 59.7K

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.

+148

DLSS-NR-on-AMD

danielblnc/DLSS-NR-on-AMD · ★ 2.7K

This is a mod that lets you run DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on AMD Radeon GPUs (RX 7000/9000 series) in any DirectX 12 game that supports FSR, by reimplementing the DLSS neural network runtime for AMD hardware from scratch.

+145

Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts · ★ 195K

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.

+93

hongguo-desktop-releases

waligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releases · ★ 4K

This 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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63 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

    Microsoft-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.

    195K
  2. #2 · microsoft/PowerToys

    PowerToys

    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.

    139.5K
  3. #3 · Raphire/Win11Debloat

    Win11Debloat

    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.

    59.7K
  1. 4

    Files

    46.1Kfiles-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.

  2. 5

    ExplorerPatcher

    34.1Kvalinet/ExplorerPatcher · C

    ExplorerPatcher 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.

  3. 6

    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.

  4. 7

    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.

  5. 8

    UniGetUI

    26.7KDevolutions/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.

  6. 9

    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.

  7. 10

    Scoop

    24.7KScoopInstaller/Scoop · PowerShell

    Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows that lets you install apps from the terminal with minimal friction, similar to Homebrew on macOS.

  8. 11

    FanControl.Releases

    21.1KRem0o/FanControl.Releases

    Fan 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.

  9. 12

    tiny11builder

    20.7Kntdevlabs/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.

  10. 13

    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.

  11. 14

    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.

  12. 15

    lively

    19.9Klively-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.

  13. 16

    Sandboxie

    19.7Ksandboxie-plus/Sandboxie · C

    Sandboxie 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.

  14. 17

    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.

  15. 18

    WSABuilds

    18.7KMustardChef/WSABuilds · Python

    Ready-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.

  16. 19

    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.

  17. 20

    Seelen-UI

    18.1Keythaann/Seelen-UI · Rust

    Seelen 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.

  18. 21

    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.

  19. 22

    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.

  20. 23

    Playnite

    14.3KJosefNemec/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.

  21. 24

    Winhance

    14Kmemstechtips/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.

  22. 25

    CustomTkinter

    13.6KTomSchimansky/CustomTkinter · Python

    CustomTkinter 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.

  23. 26

    RemoveWindowsAI

    13.4Kzoicware/RemoveWindowsAI · PowerShell

    RemoveWindowsAI is a PowerShell script that force-removes Copilot, Recall, Image Creator and other AI features Microsoft keeps adding to Windows 11, to improve privacy, security and user experience.

  24. 27

    glazewm

    12.9Kglzr-io/glazewm · Rust

    GlazeWM is a tiling window manager inspired by i3wm that lets you organize windows and adjust their layout on the fly with keyboard-driven commands, instead of dragging windows around manually.

  25. 28

    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.

  26. 29

    MagiskOnWSALocal

    10.6KLSPosed/MagiskOnWSALocal · Shell

    A set of build scripts that generates a custom Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) installer with Magisk root and Google Apps (Play Store) built in, ready to install on Windows 11.

  27. 30

    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.

  28. 31

    MediaCreationTool.bat

    10.3KAveYo/MediaCreationTool.bat · Batchfile

    A 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.

  29. 32

    DeskBox

    7.1KTianyu199509/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.

  30. 33

    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.

  31. 34

    tubatools

    5.6Kluolangaga/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.

  32. 35

    plexo

    4.7Kanmolkapil/plexo · TypeScript

    Plexo 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.

  33. 36

    dlssg_for_sm86

    4.6Ksdli1995/dlssg_for_sm86 · HTML

    DLSSG 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.

  34. 37

    Mocreak

    4.6KOdysseusYuan/Mocreak

    Mocreak 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.

  35. 38

    hongguo-desktop-releases

    4Kwaligoraamodio288-rgb/hongguo-desktop-releases

    This 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.

  36. 39

    wsl-dashboard

    4Kowu/wsl-dashboard · Rust

    WSL 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.

  37. 40

    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.

  38. 41

    WindowsDeveloperConfig

    3.2Kmicrosoft/WindowsDeveloperConfig · PowerShell

    A Microsoft repo with three opinionated PowerShell setups for configuring a Windows dev machine: a full dev-workstation installer, a WSL/Linux shell beautifier called WSL Comfort, and single-language toolchain installers.

  39. 42

    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.

  40. 43

    msime-windows

    3Kmetasequoiaime/msime-windows · C++

    Metasequoia IME (水杉输入法) is a free, open-source Windows input method for Chinese and Japanese, built entirely on the TSF (Text Services Framework) architecture.

  41. 44

    DLSS-NR-on-AMD

    2.7Kdanielblnc/DLSS-NR-on-AMD

    This is a mod that lets you run DLSS 5 Neural Rendering on AMD Radeon GPUs (RX 7000/9000 series) in any DirectX 12 game that supports FSR, by reimplementing the DLSS neural network runtime for AMD hardware from scratch.

  42. 45

    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.

  43. 46

    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.

  44. 47

    winutil-cn

    1.1Kyasewang1337-svg/winutil-cn · PowerShell

    A 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.

  45. 48

    BibaYanji

    972Bibapcs/BibaYanji · C

    BibaYanji (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.

  46. 49

    pinyon-shift

    756arcanite24/pinyon-shift · Python

    Pinyon 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.

  47. 50

    try-omarchy-windows

    643omacom/try-omarchy-windows · Go

    Try 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.

  48. 51

    hells-gate-recomp

    588florinp93/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).

  49. 52

    umium

    441hotline1337/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.

  50. 53

    allinonetools

    396LinkMouseIndex/allinonetools

    A 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.

  51. 54

    RyGT

    383mlgprorektm8/RyGT · C++

    RyGT ports the PS4 game Gran Turismo Sport (CUSA03220, update 1.69) to run natively on Windows. It is not an emulator: a converter turns the game's PS4 executable into a Windows GTSport.exe, the original game code runs directly on the CPU, and RyGT's libraries replace the PS4 system while shadGT's Vulkan renderer handles graphics.

  52. 55

    AinanPlayer

    343Ainanya21/AinanPlayer

    A 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.

  53. 56

    1-Click-DLSS5

    313reiluisii/1-Click-DLSS5 · HLSL

    1-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.

  54. 57

    The-Darkness-Recomp

    311portingpete/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.

  55. 58

    MoE4All

    309Headmaster218/MoE4All · Rust

    MoE4All is a portable Windows app that runs large Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) LLMs beyond what fits in VRAM by streaming expert weights between GPU VRAM, system RAM and SSD, built on a Vulkan-first Rust inference engine so consumer AMD (and other Vulkan) GPUs can run huge models locally.

  56. 59

    palette-from-image-ai

    300egotoadcitadel/palette-from-image-ai · Python

    It'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.

  57. 60

    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.

  58. 61

    win11-storage-governance-kit

    195Nongfsq/win11-storage-governance-kit · Python

    A Codex Skills kit that turns a practical Windows 11 C-drive cleanup workflow into a reusable agent skill and reference runbook for governing storage (not just deleting files).

  59. 62

    VRGDG-SeedVR2-TensorRT-Studio

    167vrgamegirl19/VRGDG-SeedVR2-TensorRT-Studio · Python

    A local, GPU-accelerated video restoration and upscaling studio built around the SeedVR2 model with TensorRT acceleration, controlled through a browser-based JavaScript/FastAPI interface for previewing, comparing, and rendering videos.

  60. 63

    windows-cursor-scheme-fix

    149Arcadeq/windows-cursor-scheme-fix · PowerShell

    A PowerShell workaround for a Windows 11 bug: custom mouse cursor themes are installed correctly, but the screen stays stuck on the classic Windows Aero cursors. It reloads all 14 cursor roles into the live session and can keep re-applying them from a background process.

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