Guide · Windows 10 and 11

How to customize Windows 11

You can make Windows 11 much nicer and tidier without installing ten apps. First, what Windows already lets you do; then, what a dock adds.

What you can change in Windows itself

• Dark mode and accent color: Settings › Personalization › Colors.
• Wallpaper and lock screen, including "Windows spotlight", which changes the picture every day.
• The taskbar: alignment (center or left), which icons show, "never combine" and, since the September 2026 update, the position (top and sides) and a smaller bar. See the taskbar on the side.
• Virtual desktops (Win + Tab), one per subject.

What a dock adds

Windows has no magnifier, doesn't put widgets on the bar and doesn't separate apps by time of day. Doca covers all three.

• Environments: one dock for work, another for study, another for leisure. You can tie each environment to a Windows virtual desktop.
• A glass bar with the Mac magnifier, bottom, left or right, on each monitor.
• 40+ widgets inside the dock, in two styles.
• Doca search (Alt + Space, changeable in Settings › Keyboard & shortcuts), with apps, files, math and conversions, and Doca's Start with your pinned apps.
• Top bar and Island, like the Mac menu bar: the environment, the front app, the date, the time and what's going on (music, timers).

Nothing gets left behind: when Doca closes, Windows goes back exactly as it was.