Switching to Curtains from WindowBlinds

Hello,
You can install both Windowblinds and Curtains in your system. If you open up Curtains. Initially, Curtain will unload Windowblinds and set it to Official Windows 10 theme. Once you load/click any curtains theme it will auto load for you. Which is very fast.

And if you wish to change back to Windowblinds. You can just open up Windowblinds and load any Windowblinds theme. Sometimes WB don't load properly, you just need to restart explorer.exe or reboot.

Thanks

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Thanks for reply. Purchased, installed, like. Only option I don't see is changing font for title of window along top. Or am I missing the obvious?

Found the font setting in Different.CURTAINSTYLE file for selected Curtain Style folder. Surprised this isn't in style edit section.

Finally, I don't see a setting for color of X in upper right-hand corner. Changing the secondary color (which was red in the Style I'm using) didn't change this from red to revised color.

Thanks for any help on this. 

I believe the red is fixed unless you define Button Backround Blocks (which means you'd also want to define window buttons).

Fonts can be edited via the advanced properties button when editing the WindowFrame top section

Thanks to all for helpful information. Despite ~30 years with Windows and many years with Stardock, the settings interface with Curtains isn't obvious in terms of what does what. I don't see documentation, yet, but I would recommend this as Curtains is more complicated, at least to me, than WB in terms of what does what. I mean, Button Background Blocks, which I did glance at, doesn't seem to address the issue of X color...but I'll give it more attention and see how it goes.

Cheers

The Start button won't change from one that is default with Style. I changed WB setting so OS Start button was the default, but that didn't help. Regardless of PNG file selected, the Start button is the one that Style defaults to. Obviously I'm missing something in applying this change.

Please check if your Start10 Start button setting is set to Curtains :

Reboot or restart Explorer.exe might help too.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

This is what I have and I can't change it to Cursor from WB even though OS is selected in WB.

You need to go back to Windowblinds and release Windowblind control for Start10 Start Button. Try this :

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I've done that and then restarted Explorer in Task Manager, but no change. Do I need to repair/reinstall Start10?

By the way, I see Start8 in registry but not Start10.

Hello,

Once you have done the Windowblinds part, reboot and check Curtains setting on start buttons.

If that part is done. Please check back Start10 buttons, it should show as in my Reply#9.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Okay, I've installed 1.95ß and have followed instructions above.

This is current Start graphic

Here is Start10

Start graphic in Style -- Different -- doesn't change to image shown in Start10. Is it something I'm not doing? Setting in WB is unchecked and setting in Curtains is checked.

Fixed! The PNG for Curtains, not Start10, determines what is shown on Taskbar. By renaming the start-button.png in Style folder to something else and then renaming desired Start button graphic to start-button.png, and then restarting Explorer, the issue is resolved.   

It looks like it is working as designed?

You told Curtains to replace the start button rather than let Start10 do so.

The problem is it doesn't appear that Curtains recognizes Start10 Start button PNGs, it only sees PNGs that are in the Style folders in Curtains. Start says it's using PNGs from Curtains but Curtains actually has control of the Start button graphics files. I only discovered this by experimenting after installing current Start10 beta and still not having Start10 PNGs in Taskbar. I found that checking or not checking setting in WB regarding control of Start had no effect. Simply moving Start button PNG from Start10 folder to Curtains style folder solved the issue. Hope this makes sense.

I should add that I've installed Curtains on three Dell XPS computers -- one desktop and two laptops. The correspondence here was for the former. The laptops installed with correct Start buttons, but one used PNGs in Start10 and the other used PNG in Curtains style folder. All Windows 10. I have no explanation for this.

I have to say I'm impressed with the level and amount of quick assistance Stardock is giving us. Perhaps it's nothing new, fact is I've not needed it until now (Curtains).I'm a long time Stardock user and don't get me wrong I like Curtains a lot!   

J Peyton

Curtains is OK but it's no Windowblinds. I've used Curtains at times but after a couple of hours I'm back to Windowblinds.  

I've been using Curtains ever since it came out. It's easier to customize and I like the transparency of Explorer background. For me it skins Edge. What ever I do I can get WB to skin Edge.

I actually prefer Curtains over WB, like ALMonty said, it is easier to customize, lighter and less issues with certain apps. That being said I still load up WB. Patiently waiting for Win11 support  

I too await anxiously the WIN11 versions of Curtains and Windowblinds.   

I guess also the creators of the themes need to be at work as well.  

BUT PLEASE Please PLEASE Stardock....... hurry up with the WIN 11 version of these products.

I'm doing the same thing, i left WB on my system and just set it to default, that will set the theme back to windows Default theme. then just install and start using Curtains. if you don't like it just uninstall Curtains and continue to use WB