Cairo requires Windows 7 or later, including Windows 10, and .NET 4.7.1 or later (already included with Windows 10 1709 and newer)
Click "Assets" below to find the installer download. After downloading, Windows Defender will likely require you to choose "more info," then "run anyway."
Changes since 0.4.80
App management improvements:
- Added complete app category management to the Programs menu (#549)
- If you'd like to move an app to a category that doesn't yet exist, you can now create a new one via the context menu
- Categories can now be renamed, reordered, or removed via their context menu
- Improved app grabber usability (#405)
- Added tooltips to icons
- Renamed "Hide" button to "Collapse" to better indicate its function
- Improved app renaming (#554)
- Added ability to rename Quick Launch apps
- Replaced clunky inline Programs menu rename with a dialog
- Fixed click area on buttons at the bottom of the Programs menu being too small
- Fixed cut off program labels in Programs menu
- Fixed missing Store app icons, such as Forza Horizon 4 (#531)
- Fixed the Programs menu not re-opening after a dialog is dismissed
General improvements:
- Added Turkish language support (#557, thanks @ysfchn!)
- Added ability to type in a folder path to navigate the dynamic desktop to by either right-clicking the Browse icon on the desktop toolbar and choosing "Go to folder," or shift-clicking the Browse icon (#543)
- Added ability for themes to disable bar transparency (#555)
- Added shell menu dark mode support for Windows 10 21H1
- Shift-clicking the "Exit Cairo" button will now restart Cairo (#528)
- Improved performance of the taskbar
- Improved taskbar app category detection (#562, thanks @kevinboss!)
- Fixed full-screen apps being covered by Cairo when they span multiple monitors (thanks @kevinboss!)
- Fixed Windows desktop icons being hidden with the Cairo desktop disabled (#567, thanks @kevinboss!)