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Windhawk is a fairly well-known app that primarily lets you change how Windows looks. Here Mauro Huculak walks you through what he feels are the 7 best mods, e.g., changing the way the Taskbar looks and where it's parked.
How Windhawk worksThe core of Windhawk is dynamic code injection. Instead of modifying ".exe" or ".dll" files on the setup, it waits for a program to start and injects code directly into that process's memory.
It uses hooks to intercept function calls. For example, if a mod wants to change the Taskbar color, it can intercept the system's drawing commands and replace them with custom instructions on the fly.
Because it doesn't modify system files, it's generally safer than patching binaries, and most issues can be resolved with a reboot or by uninstalling the mod. However, because it operates inside critical processes, crashes or instability are still possible.