I saw a mention of this tool when searching for how to disable the expansion of the Start menu's sidebar (where your user icon/power off/logout/etc. buttons are). It was a non-expanding piece of UI before a recent Windows 10 update, and I don't really need a written explanation of what each button does.
I regularly download pre-release builds, their symbols, scan/diff for features, then upload the results to the repository [1].
For some background, highly recommend listening to Alex Ionescu + Gabrielle Viala talk about the undocumented Windows Notification Facility at Blackhat 2018 [2].
A friend of mine, Albacore, is doing the research and building tools around the next version of this system worth checking out too [3].
With that shining endorsement from someone at Microsoft, you know this is the good stuff. That said, I would never mess around with anything like this in a production / non-personal system.
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Also seen in project issues with a completely different feature ID: https://github.com/riverar/mach2/issues/14
Didn't try to toggle any of them so far.
For some background, highly recommend listening to Alex Ionescu + Gabrielle Viala talk about the undocumented Windows Notification Facility at Blackhat 2018 [2].
A friend of mine, Albacore, is doing the research and building tools around the next version of this system worth checking out too [3].
[1] https://github.com/riverar/mach2/tree/master/features
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MybmgE95weo
[3] https://medium.com/@thebookisclosed/visiting-vibranium-veloc...