Visual Studio Code with Mica Alt (Tabbed), smaller rounded corners and LED strobe border animation.

Windows Terminal with blur behind and no border.

Visual Studio 2022 with Acrylic, square corners and blue border.

I created a small, portable program for applying Windows 11 materials (Mica, Acrylic, etc.) to Windows Terminal, VSCode, Visual Studio and more. It also has blur behind with color blending and custom opacity levels.

Download: github.com/WildByDesign/ImmersiveUX

Release win32-appcontainer-tools 1.1.0 · WildByDesign/win32-appcontainer-tools LaunchAppContainer: Improved creation time of AppContainer sandbox Improved functionality of checkboxes Performance improvements LearningMode: Rewrote most of the GUI GUI is now resizable and s...

I had some time recently to put some work into my win32-appcontainer-tools project. Most of the work went into rewriting the ETW trace tool. Improved AppContainer sandbox creation time. Performance improvements for all tools.

Link: github.com/WildByDesign/win32-appcontainer-tools/releases/tag/1.1.0

Completely rewriting the GUI had the interesting side effect of making everything significantly faster.

App Control Policy Manager 6

App Control Policy Manager 6

- Completely rewritten
- Redesigned GUI with focus on policies
- Ownerdrawn menu and status bar
- EFI Partition policies can be viewed in filter
- Added Export to CSV
- System tray icon indicates blocked events

Link github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/6.0

ACL Viewer 2.0

ACL Viewer 2.0 Verbose

ACL Viewer 2.0 is out.

- Added Export ListView as CSV option to export the parsed ACL
- Added Verbose ACE Permissions option to view dump of all permissions for the selected ACE (split into Generic, Standard and Specific permissions)

Link: github.com/WildByDesign/ACLViewer/releases/tag/2.0.0

ACL Viewer

I needed an ACL Viewer that has dark mode, shows file ACLs as well and had fast SDDL/ACCESS_MASK parsing. So I ended up having to make my own.

Link: github.com/WildByDesign/ACLViewer

The app icon nor the app name give the user any indication that this app may have anything to do with office work (documents, spreadsheets, etc.)

It also makes me wonder what will happen with naming/branding if/when Copilot (AI in general) fails.

This whole rebranding stuff hurts my brain.

GitHub - WildByDesign/win32-appcontainer-tools: AppContainer tools for launching sandboxed win32 apps, changing ACL permissions and learning from ETW traces. AppContainer tools for launching sandboxed win32 apps, changing ACL permissions and learning from ETW traces. - WildByDesign/win32-appcontainer-tools

Link: github.com/WildByDesign/win32-appcontainer-tools

Set AppContainer ACL

Launch AppContainer

AppContainer Permissive Learning Mode

It took me about a month, but I've got my win32-appcontainer-tools ready to share.

- Launch Win32 apps in AppContainer
- Set ACL permissions per-container
- ETW tracing for Permissive Learning Mode

Special thanks to Fredrik Orderud, @tiraniddo.dev and Helge Klein.

Release App Control Tray and Policy Manager 5.1 · WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool This release is all about overall polish, particularly related to different DPI scaling factors. Some nice Policy ListView enhancements and fixes as well. Dynamically measuring all GUI controls to...

This release was mostly about handling different DPI scaling factors better. DPI stuff is way more complex than I had originally thought.

I tested all scaling factors but was unable to test 200% scaling since my laptop only has up to 175%

Link: github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/5.1

App Control Policy Manager 5.1

App Control Policy Manager 5.1

- Dynamically measuring all GUI controls to ensure proper placement in all scaling factors
- Switched Policy List font to Cascadia Code for better, smoother viewing experience
- Fixed some visual glitches and column auto-resize

App Control Policy Manager 5

App Control Policy Manager 5 EFI

App Control Policy Manager 5 (5.0.1)

- Added filtering option for viewing all signed/system policies in EFI partition (more actions to come)
- Added Vulnerable Driver Blocklist check
- Added button for starting App Control Wizard

Link: github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/5.0.1

Release App Control Tray and Policy Manager 4.7 · WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool This release focuses solely on ensuring that the logic, support and functionality for Windows 11 23H2 users is on par with how everything already functions for 24H2 users. The older CiTool in pre-2...

Download: github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/4.7

App Control Policy Manager 4.7 view for Windows 11 23H2 users

App Control Policy Manager 4.7 released, focused on 23H2 support. CiTool provides less detail on 23H2, therefore:

- add asterisk to blank info
- note in bottom-left
- VersionString not provided; parsing from Version
- thanks to @kimoppalfens.bsky.social & diversenok_zero for help with logic

Release App Control Tray and Policy Manager 4.6 · WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool Policy Manager - Added: Increased supported policy limit to 32 policies. Added Convert (xml to binary) button for easy policy conversion. Added a count of Enforced policies in the Current Policy I...

Download: github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/4.6

App Control Policy Manager 4.6

App Control Policy Manager 4.6 released.

- Increased supported policy limit to 32 policies
- Added Convert (xml to binary) for easy conversion
- Fixed parsing bug causing crash on pre-24H2 systems
- Added more details to Current Policy Information

Release App Control Tray and Policy Manager 4.5 · WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool Switched from the old App Control Policy List popup to the fully functional App Control Policy Manager App Control Policy Manager can also be used as a standalone single executable portable app as...

App Control Policy Manager
Link: github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/4.5

App Control Policy Manager

Have you ever wanted a powerful GUI wrapper for CiTool and more?

- sortable columns
- filtering options
- fast adding and removing of policies

Recently, I contributed some work and ideas to help Notepad++ UI feel a bit more modern and lively. The upcoming 8.7.2 release will have inactive tab highlighting on mouse hover and some new icons. Also, a new tab pinning feature which is not shown in this video.

Extra caffeine and extra time in the woods will help you take care of them, for sure. Up here in Toronto, doctors are saying 80-90% of their patients have 'walking pneumonia' right now. Needless to say, my whole household has been sick for almost two months now. Hang in there, man.

Thank you

App Control Tray Tool icons

App Control Tray Tool system tray tooltip

(WDAC) App Control Tray Tool 4.0 released!

- New icons and system tray tooltip that change dynamically when your policy changes between Enforced Mode, Audit Mode or Not Configured.

Download and release notes: github.com/WildByDesign/WDACTrayTool/releases/tag/4.0

Release SandboxYourFox-132.0.2 · WildByDesign/SandboxYourFox Updated Firefox binaries to 132.0.2 Added uBlock Origin via policies.json SandboxYourFox now includes uBlock Origin by default and is included via policy. The uBlock Origin settings are all kept a...

We have all heard @swiftonsecurity.com discuss the importance of pushing uBlock Origin via policy for years now.

SandboxYourFox now comes with uBlock Origin out-of-the-box; via policy. In Private Browsing mode too; by default.

Download: github.com/WildByDesign/SandboxYourFox/releases/tag/132.0.2

WDAC (App Control for Business) usability has improved significantly on Windows 11. Especially with the latest 24H2. The difference between the early days of WDAC on Windows 10 and now is night and day.

If you gave up on WDAC previously, it is worth revisiting on Windows 11.

Thanks Dylan, I appreciate it. There's still a bunch of people who haven't moved over yet. But I'm sure it wont be too long.