How Windhawk can be deployed with pre-set mods?

[Anixx]

Can Windhawk be quickly deployed to a new system witha set of pre-configured mods?

[m417z]

I was thinking about adding an export/import feature, but currently, there's no official way. You can install the mods manually once, and then use that Windhawk instance for the deploy. For the non-portable version, both files from the program data folder and registry entries will have to be copied.
I haven't tried it, but I believe that it's enough to copy over the following:

%ProgramData%\Windhawk\Engine\Mods
%ProgramData%\Windhawk\ModsSource
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Windhawk\Engine\Mods
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Windhawk\Engine\ModsWritable

Let me know whether that works for you.

[DepressedOptimist]

Just wanted to confirm that this method works.

Note that I didn't have a ModsSource folder. Also, I exported the entire HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Windhawk because I noticed that the Process Exclusion List was under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Windhawk\Settings.

Not issues so far.

[e-t-l]

This might be a different question entirely, but I wonder if it would be possible to "export" mods as executables, kind of how AutoHotKey can export AHK scripts as executables that can be run without needing a AutoHotKey.exe installed separately on the system already. I'm imagining if there were a way to analyze a mod and figure out which WH components/hooks/etc are utilized, then package the mod with just those basic WH components/framework required to make it work as a standalone executable...

[m417z]

It can be possible, but I don't have plans to implement it. Instead, I have it on my list to have a "lite" version of Windhawk without VSCode and a compiler, so that its size would be around 10 MB instead of around 700 MB. It won't allow modifying or developing mods, but it will be easier and quicker to install for most users. Perhaps it will cover your needs as well.

[stamminator]

@m417z I'm working on a guide for "I want a better Windows experience but I'm not really a power user and don't want to tinker" users, and that kind of Windhawk lite version would be perfectly suited for it.

[happymimimix]

This might be a different question entirely, but I wonder if it would be possible to "export" mods as executables, kind of how AutoHotKey can export AHK scripts as executables that can be run without needing a AutoHotKey.exe installed separately on the system already. I'm imagining if there were a way to analyze a mod and figure out which WH components/hooks/etc are utilized, then package the mod with just those basic WH components/framework required to make it work as a standalone executable...

I also want to export mods as a standalone executable that could work without windhawk!