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把 Windows 11 任务栏上的文件资源管理器窗口按钮搬到常驻悬浮栏,给任务栏腾地方

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GITHUB · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 59%) · 1 view

Niche: desktop environment and customization software · 283 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -35% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial While floating desktop UI bars are easy to build, intercepting Windows 11 Explorer taskbar buttons and hijacking window management involves undocumented Win32 shell APIs and hook mechanisms.

What it would actually take: The frontend can be built with C# / WinUI 3 or WPF, but the core functionality demands interacting with Win32 APIs (SetWinEventHook, shell window hooks, TaskbarList COM interfaces, and desktop window manager APIs) to inspect and suppress taskbar button rendering while coordinating window activation and minimize/restore events reliably across multi-monitor setups.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 643 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #353 of 644 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 302 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Pane · github · 2026-10-30 · 63 upvotes · similarity 0.67
  • binglan · github · 2026-10-04 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.65
  • DesktopJelly · github · 2026-10-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Hook2exe · github · 2026-10-20 · 44 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • FurinaKit · github · 2026-09-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • WinShun · github · 2026-10-08 · 218 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • port-steward · github · 2026-11-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • DG-Dock · github · 2026-11-02 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.51

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