How To: Enable Full Screen Widgets Panel In Windows 11 Build 25201+

Windows 11 Insider Build 25201, released on the Dev channel the day before, brought with it the full-screen mode of the Widgets panel, which was demonstrated during the first presentation of the new operating system. Maybe one day they will remember about widgets from third-party developers, but now it’s not about that.

As you may have guessed, the new feature is back in A/B testing and is currently not available to all members of the Windows Insider Program. If you are not among the lucky ones, you can use the ViVeTool utility. You will find instructions below.

Instruction

1. Download the ViVeTool utility by this link. This is a new version of ViveTool 0.3.1, the details of which we described in our material.
2. Unpack the downloaded archive to any place on your computer (for example, you can create a ViVeTool folder in the root of the C: drive and place the files there).
3. Open a command prompt as an administrator (for example, by typing CMD in the search and selecting the appropriate item).
4. In the command line, navigate to the folder with ViVeTool using the command cd /d , then press Enter. For example: cd /d "C:\ViVeTool"
5. Enter command vivetool /enable /id:34300186 /store:both and press Enter.
6. Make sure that the command line shows the message “Successfully set feature configuration”
7. Restart your computer to apply the changes.

To disable the feature, use the following command: vivetool /disable /id:34300186 /store:both