Windower Dev 4.6.3.6 / Hook 4.6.4.0 - Multiple Personality Edition

Some new functionalities that I am personally quite happy about:

Hook

When launched through Windower, POL no longer has the limit of 4 accounts stored. The new limit is 20. When launched without Windower, POL still lets you access the extra accounts but goes back to not letting you add anymore.

Luacore

Two new addon API calls are available:Moves an item from the specified source bag to the specified destination bag. Slot is the slot in the source bag where the item exist. Count is how many items to move, and is optional.

Stacks items in the specified bag.

Itemizer

Itemizer now supports the //move and //moves commands, that enable movement of items from one bag directly to another, to align with the (relatively new) ability of the game client to do the same thing natively. At the moment, it does not work with Mog House-only bags when close to Nomad Moogles, that will be for a future patch.
Syntax:item name and destination bag are obligatory.
source bag is optional. If not specified, Itemizer will pull from all available bags until count is reached.
count is optional. If not specified, defaults to 1. "all" can be used to move all available items
//moves implies a count of "all" (like for puts and gets)

Gearswap

The export system has been overhauled, and it now supports the following commands (in bold are the new ones):

• filename|file|f <name of file> - save to the specified filename.
  Ex: "//gs export f drkTP" will export to Charactername_drkTP.lua

• setname|name|n <name of set> - saves the exported set with the specified name instead of sets.exported.
  Eg: "//gs export name Engaged" will name the exported set "sets.Engaged".

• inventory|inv|i - will export all items contained in inventory

• all - will export all items owned by the current character

• wearable - will export all equippable item owned by the current character

• sets|set - will export all sets stored in the currently loaded gearswap profile

• noaugments|noaugs - will not export augments for any item at all

• onlyaugmented|onlyaugs - will only export augmented items and ignore non-augmented ones (mostly useful in combination with "all")

• mini|minify - will export the new set in a single line (no newlines)

• compact - will export the set in a multi-column table (see example below)

• bgwiki - will export the set in the format used by BG-Wiki, so it can be copied directly into, for example, a guide

• copy|clipboard - will export the set directly to clipboard, skipping the saving to file entirely.

• mainjob - will put the main job shorthand in the filename

• mainsubjob - will put both main and sub job shorthands in the filename

• overwrite - will overwrite existing files with the same name

The changes are currently only on the dev branch, but a live branch will happen Soon^TM.

As usual, stay on-topic in the thread, but do report any bug or quirks that you encounter. Cheers!

Help! I was using the key friction from guest logging into 16 accounts to heat water and then used the hot water to make instant noodles. Now it is more convenient to log into my alts, but can't eat my hoard of dry noodles.

Please re-enable POL heating!

That's an impressive update. Great job everyone at Windower team.

Windover Dev has been merged to Live. All the updates are thus on Live and available to all users.

Do let us know about any problems by coming to windower's Discord.

Have fun!

I understood that reference!

Has this been released yet, or am I reading it wrong?

Back in February, windower updated and that update broke certain things for me, as I reported here back then. I lost all visual elements from plugins and addons outside the text log and could not see the console text.
As of this update, I'm happy to report that it's been fixed. I can once again see the console text and use addons that have visual elements outside the text log. I don't know if the windower team was finally able to nail the issue or if this is simply a happy coincidence, but either way, thank you.

Yes its released if your windower and hook are up to date.

I'm having a weird issue when using switch_focus where it tries to switch windows and gets like..stuck? it's not frozen, I can see people move and i can type in chat but I cannot hit enter to send or escape to exit, anybody having this issue?

Yes, I uninstalled Windows Update 25H2, probably the first time I uninstalled/rolled-back a Windows update in ~20 years.

For me, it was this, which is a part of 25H2:
2025-11 Security Update (KB5068861) (26200.7171)

After I rolledback, everything went back to normal (minus some new flickering in POL's login screen ...but I can live with that for now if means I can have alt+tab working again).

We have not. there is a thread in the support channel on our discord for discussing the "console issue" the last attempted fix was changing how windower selects a font, which seemed to fix the issue for some people but not others.

I'm really sorry for being a pedantic arse here, but shouldn't this be item, and not items?

depends on if a stack of crystals is an item or items (hence why it has a "count" arg)

Hello everyone, polite reminder that this thread is not for support or bug reports. If you have a need for either, come to the windower discord (link in the first post).



It is and I corrected the post. Thanks for noticing it.

which ver did you roll back to? i quit playing since 25h1 broke alt tab for me

you can change the windower setting that disallows the windows key, this will impact what you can key binds you can do with the windows key, but the end result is no weird alt tab behavior on any windows 11 version.'

if you use windows key for binds heavily i would suggest using the switch focus addon to switch between boxes.

Hello all! Windower is receiving some new functionalities, making the current dev build a little instable.

This means that we need people to test it out, as the dev team is not able to foresee and test every possible usage scenario.

Come to the Windower Discord server to report your findings. When joining the server, you will be able to give yourself the v4 role so you can join the #development channel, where you will find a pinned message describing the new changes, and a #bug-reports channel where you can tell us what does not work so we can fix it.

Thanks!

25 January 2026 Windower Update!

A few hours ago we pushed the Dev branch onto the Stable branch of windower.

List of changes, because I am too sick to make a funny post:

Core

These settings are available per windower profile, so they are under Pencil icon -> Advanced tab:

- Added setting to increase account limit. This was already present before, but we did it without a setting and just enabled it globally. It is now OFF by default, so those who relied on it before will need to enable this in the settings of they profile they wish to use it on, or it will stop working. That said, accounts they already added should still work even without enabling it, but they won't be able to add any more, if they're already at four or above.
- Enable fast POL login. This makes POL skip to loading FFXI right after password input (only on first login, going back to POL from FFXI will let POL load and work normally). Thanks to Jaku for the original POL-Proxy and for help with the implementation.
- Prevent POL background throttling.. This removes the framerate slowdown that POL normally has when its window is out of focus. Might speed up update download speed and login time.
- "Allow Windows Key" was renamed to "Allow Windows Key passthrough" and a description was added, but the functionality is the same.

Launcher

- A Branch tab is added to the main window, with a button that enables switching between Dev and Stable without having to edit the settings.xml.
- A new Wrench icon is added to the main window, containing settings and tools that are applied to the game client itself. For now it only contains one:
- Large Address Aware toggle: automatically patches the client at runtime with the LAA patch, without needing to run a separate patcher and without modifying the executable on disk.

Plugins

- Some general stuff that nist people won't care about (refactored API, added new tool to help manage versions, added symbol upload, etc.)
- LuaCore: Fixed jumping and crashing issues with windower.ffxi.run(). Furthermore, now the run vector should be properly cleared when using windower.ffxi.run(false) and windower.ffxi.follow(false).
- LuaCore: Added handbell and geomancy skills to the merit table (windower.ffxi.get_player().merits)
- LuaCore: A new windower.ffxi.get_augments() function is added. For now it only parses System4 augments, which are the ones used by JSE necks and Su4/Su5 crafted Divergence Weapons. This ability will be added at a later point to the extdata library (and thus to gearswap at other addons). - not released yet, oops

Addons

- DressUp: Fixed job profile based loading (this)
- BLUAlert: Add weapon skills to spell_id_map (this)
- GearSwap: Added "you already have that roll" to unable_to_use() (this)
- Packets lib: Added aliasing mechanism, only interesting for devs, and even then only for boring devs
- Packets lib: Minor fix for variable length strings, hardly relevant to anyone and not sure which addons, if any, are affected by it (this)
- Slips lib: Adjusted to use resources, added new slips resources to ResourceExtractor, now this can be fixed by a resource update and we won't have to do live merges anymore yay, which means it should be faster to get porter and porterpacker to support new slips when they're added.

As usual, this thread is not for support or general discussion, so for those come to the windower discord, use another already existing thread, or open a new one.

That's all for now. Enjoy!

EDIT: for now these updates are only available on the Dev branch, due to an issue many users have reported causing packet loss. As soon as we manage to fix it, it will be published to Stable again.

This update was just reverted. We had reports of what appears to be dropped packets and lag.

It is still deployed on dev, but live was reverted.

just want to say hell yea and we appreciate the windower devs that are sticking to it. Yall are awesome for the continued works that you allow us access to, thank you so much for your efforts, i wish i were half as smart as every single one of ya that keeps this alive for us, many of us take your work for granted, but i want to say that, personally i appreciate your efforts, and i doubt id still be a player off and on like i am without windower.

THANK YOU ALL!