Overview

TitlelessWindows is a small Windows 11 utility that removes the standard title bar from windows.

I made it back when I was still using Windows together with GlazeWM. On a 1080p display, the lost vertical space started to annoy me more and more, and visually I also just preferred the cleaner look without title bars. So this was one of those cases where I wanted something specific badly enough that I ended up building it myself.

Function and implementation

The tool works by using a PowerShell script that interacts with the WinAPI and overrides the window style of standard Windows 11 windows. It keeps monitoring windows so the title bars stay gone instead of only changing them once.

From the user side it is pretty simple: unpack the files, adjust the path in the batch file, optionally exclude certain processes through a text file, and then run it. After that, standard Windows 11 title bars are removed automatically.

I originally looked into PowerShell for this because I assumed it would give me a relatively direct way to access the Windows API. I am definitely not some expert PowerShell scripter though, so this was less a case of elegant engineering and more a case of forcing my way through it until it finally worked.

Notes

There were multiple iterations of this script. The first variant was actually already pretty decent, but it had the problem of constantly eating around 2% CPU, which is just stupid for such a small background utility.

It is worth noting that the script only really works with standard Windows 11 title bars. Applications that use custom title bars can behave strangely or produce unwanted side effects. So this was never meant to be some universal solution for every possible window, more a targeted fix for my own setup.

Status

The project is open source, but it is no longer maintained. However you can check it out here.

I do not use Windows anymore, so development stopped. Still, it solved exactly the thing I wanted it to solve at the time. It is a tiny project but I value it alot.

If someone wants to improve it or build on top of it, they can.