Windhawk

[Skhilled]

You can make lots of customizations to the Windows 11 UI. Here's the main site:

https://windhawk.net/

This site will show you a number of screenshots so that you can see it in action:

https://www.xda-developers.com/tried-windhawk-mods-cant-do-without-them/

[Bigguy]

I saw this not to long ago myself. Looks cool really.

[shawnb61]

All the Win11 BS I was afraid of was eliminated with one setting: disabling widgets in the status tray.

That got rid of all ads/popups/intrusive alerts.

I'm actually kinda happy with Win11 now.  Or...  At least not pissed off...

[Bigguy]

I get a few ads here and there but there just in a few programs...or widgets I guess they are called now, lol. I don't use them enough to be bothered really. Plus, my install is an upgraded W10 version so that may have something to do with it as well, not many ads I mean. 

[Skhilled]

I haven't seen an ad yet. I locked it down when I first got the new PC with Win 11 on it. I also don't use Bing, Chrome, etc. (and haven't in decades, LOL) and have Copilot/AI disabled as well as a number of other things that I deemed as privacy issues.

But, I am interested in this because it seems to work somewhat similar as PowerToys.