ZenDesktop Premium v4.0.0 is a high-performance desktop styling suite for Windows 11. It blends 4 native Win32/C++ Windhawk mods with the robust external ExplorerBlurMica program, unified under a bespoke Python GUI frontend panel for real-time customizations with zero background process bloat, zero UI lag, and 0% CPU overhead.

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A native Windows 11 Taskbar beautification module offering fine-grained, premium transparency & blur presets:

• Clear: 100% full transparency (only taskbar icons remain).
• Acrylic (High / Standard / Low): Real-time high-fidelity WinUI 3 acrylic glass effect.
• Apple Liquid Glass: Hyper-transparent 3D droplet glass with a subtle chromatic dispersion border (featuring diagonal red→orange→green→blue→purple gradient stops), Fresnel specular edge reflections, and a precise 2px corner radius compensation (perfectly matching floating macOS-like Dock layout).

A premium notification and action center acrylic glass styler co-created by Lanbo and m417z:

• Brings high-fidelity real-time acrylic and frosted glass effects to the Windows 11 Notification Center, calendar panel, and Quick Settings/System Tray panels.
• Perfectly synchronized with your desktop theme presets, retaining flawless WinUI shadows and smooth animations.

Syncs the Start Menu panel seamlessly with your taskbar theme, rendering native acrylic blur overlays over both redesigned and classic Start menu layouts. Features Apple Liquid Glass preset with a clear liquid body and expanded folder plates.

A process-native desktop subclassing module. Double-click empty desktop space to instantly hide/show icons, and state is preserved across system or explorer restarts.

• Persistent Hide State: Uses local registry keys to ensure desktop icons remain hidden even after system restarts.
• Full-Screen Window Guard: Suspends capture tracking when running full-screen games, video players, or active presentations.
• Zero-Latency Filtering: Blocks synthetic WM_MOUSEMOVE messages triggered by SysListView32 when toggling visibility to eliminate screen flicker.

• Author Acknowledgement: Developed by Maplespe (Maplespe/ExplorerBlurMica).
• Adds exquisite visual effects like Blur, Acrylic, and Mica to Windows 10/11 File Explorer.
• Visual customization via config editor and registered as a native shell extension DLL (regsvr32).

• Developed by Lanbo, this CustomTkinter GUI wrapper provides a unified dashboard to configure taskbar, start menu, and notification center options.
• Integrates quick actions for ExplorerBlurMica (Register/Enable, Configure Visuals, and Uninstall/Disable) via elevated actions.

Install Windhawk on your Windows 11 PC using the provided setup.

1. Right-click deploy.bat and select Run as Administrator (以管理员身份运行).
2. The script will automatically stop the Windhawk service, register the 4 premium local mods, enable local compilation, reset compiler caching keys, and restart Windhawk safely.

1. Open the Windhawk user interface. You will see 4 newly registered local mods in your home dashboard.
2. Click into each mod and click Save / Compile (保存并编译). The engine will compile the native C++ code in ~10 seconds.

1. Launch run_customizer.bat to start the frontend configuration GUI.
2. Go to the 资源管理器 (Explorer) tab, click 注册/启用透明效果 (Register & Enable) to apply File Explorer blur.
3. Use other tabs to customize Taskbar, Start Menu, and Notification Center styles.

• 四合一 Mod + 资源管理器透明程序：弃用了以前不稳定的 C++ 资源管理器插件，替换为更成熟稳定的外部程序 ExplorerBlurMica (原作者: Maplespe)。
• 前端控制中心 (ZenDesktop Customizer)：由 Lanbo 编写的前端面板，支持一键注册/注销 ExplorerBlurMica、打开高级编辑器以及调节其他 Windhawk 插件参数。
• 双击隐藏状态保存：改进了桌面图标隐藏 Mod，使其在重启系统或 Explorer 后依然可以记住并保持隐藏状态。
• 纯本地化编译：脱离官方云服务器连接限制，即插即用，完美解决国内连不上网的困境。
• 极致性能：利用进程级注入与 Hook 技术，不占用任何后台常驻进程，0% CPU 开销，近乎 0MB 内存占用。

1. 运行 deploy.bat（管理员身份）自动配置 Windhawk 并注册 4 个本地插件。
2. 在 Windhawk 界面中，依次进入 4 个插件（任务栏、开始菜单、通知中心、双击隐藏图标）的源码页面，点击右上角的 保存并编译。
3. 双击 run_customizer.bat 启动视觉控制中心。
4. 在“资源管理器”标签页中点击 注册/启用透明效果 (Register & Enable) 以应用资源管理器毛玻璃。

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This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Developed with ❤️ by Lanbo.

Special thanks to:

• Maplespe for the outstanding ExplorerBlurMica project.
• m417z for the original Windhawk Taskbar Styler, Notification Center Styler, and Start Menu Styler mods.