Windhawk (FREE) – Show File Size in MB on Windows 11

 Windhawk describes itself as a marketplace for customizing Windows

‘Better file sizes in Explorer details’ is a mod to make thing happen.

 

The test steps – Windhawk 1.5.1, Better file sizes in Explorer details 1.4.8

On: Windows 11 Home

Download: https://windhawk.net/

 

1. Go to the link above and download it.

Open the downloaded file and install.

2. Open Windhawk, click ‘Explore’ at the top right of window.

Search with keyword ‘file size’

Click ‘Details of ‘Better file sizes in Explorer details’

Before installing it, let’s see behavior of File Explorer

It shows size in KB and doesn’t show size of folder.

When sorting by size, folder size is not included.

3. Install a mod by clicking ‘Install’.

A new window shows, click ‘Accept Risk and Install’.

Wait.

When it’s done installing, you will see ‘Installed version…’

You have to refresh a page of File Explorer by go to somewhere and then go back to the target page.

To view folder size, click ‘Settings’ in Windhawk.

At ‘Show folder size’ section, select the option you want.

Don’t forget to click ‘Save settings’.

In the picture above, the option ‘Mix files and folders when sorting by size’ is turned on.

What a useful piece of software!

 

The test steps – Windhawk 1.5.1, Better file sizes in Explorer details 1.4.8

On: Windows 11 Home

Download: https://windhawk.net/

3RVX (FREE) – Beautiful Volume Overlay on Windows 11

 I haven’t found a way to remove or hide system volume overlay but it’s located at the bottom of the screen so it’s kind of hard to seen object.

3RVX can be placed the way you want so I can enjoy the beauty of it.

I will try to get the solution to remove system volume overlay.

 

The test steps – 3RVX 2.9.2

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://3rvx.com/

 

1. Go to the link above to download it.

At the bottom of the page.

You can open a GitHub link to see license.

BSD-2-Clause

2. Open the downloaded file, and follow the on-screen instruction to install the app.

Remember or create a shortcut of installation path because the settings file is there.

After it’s done installation, I went to the path below to setting up the app.

Open the file named ‘Settings’

At tab ‘General’, choose the skin.

If you choose the new skin but the ‘Apply’ button is greyed out, click ‘OK’, the ‘settings’ window will be closed, then open the ‘Settings’ file again. Click ‘Apply’, go back to target folder and open file ‘3RVX’.

I pressed the volume control on my keyboard laptop to change volume level.

Here are the skins

Don’t forget to click button ‘Apply’ after the skin is selected.

The skin will show when you changed volume at system tray icon.

You can set hotkeys to change volume in tab ‘Hotkeys’

The amount and unit can be set.

Click the system tray icon of 3RVX to access menus.

Looking at the beautiful object can help you reduce stress.

The test steps – 3RVX 2.9.2

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://3rvx.com/

 

Tip Tab (FREE) – Browse Tabs with Thumbnails in One Page (2025)

This add-on will show you thumbnails of all tabs in one page. You can click to go to that page, manage tab right in this page 

 

In the past, there were a lot of this kind of add-on but today it’s a rare item.

 

The test steps – Tip Tab 2.21

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tip-tab/

 

1. Go to the link above and click a button ‘Add to Firefox’.

The message box shows, click ‘Add’.

Click a piece of jigsaw puzzle icon at toolbar, then click a gear icon of this add-on and click ‘Pin to Toolbar’.

The icon of this add-on will show at toolbar.

2. Click ‘Tip Tab’ icon.

New window will be opened, and shows thumbnails of all open tabs.

In the picture above, in the red area of my drawing, you can change size of thumbnail to small, medium or large.

You can click at target thumbnail to go to a tab, you can close tabs and manage other things right in this page.

Click a button in the picture above, to toggle between text or image.

In the picture above, click ‘Tabs by Window’, if you want to separate tabs with name of window.

In the picture above, there are two windows.

At the corner of each window, there are menus to manage tabs.

You can search tab by its title.

Hover a mouse over title, the pointer is changed to 4-way arrow, drag that tab to reorder.

You can drag it to the new window (in Tip Tab section)

And it will affect to the real Firefox’s window.

I’m sure that there are add-ons for searching tabs, and this add-on will give me more way to search tab. If I remember images or color of target tab, this add-on can help me

 

The test steps – Tip Tab 2.21

On: Windows 11 Home

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tip-tab/