Windowblinds vs Curtains

What's the difference

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I need to understand the difference between Windowblinds and Curtains.  Seems to do similar though somewhat differently.  I've been trying to skin some of my programs but they won't skin with WindowBlinds.  Most do with Curtains, however, it seems that I can use one or the other but not both.  Curtains can skin most of my programs but don't seem to have the variety of skins that WindowBlinds has.  Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
You can install both in your system. But, you can run only one of it at a time. If you have Windowblinds loaded and if load Curtains, WB will get unload and visa versa. Curtains has it own advantages, so does Windowblinds. Curtains can change almost all Windows frame, but some part of Windows can't be change such as buttons, menus and scroll bars. While Windowblinds can do those, but there are applications not compatible with Windowblinds, hence some strange behavior effecting the applications.


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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You can have both WindowBlinds and Curtains installed at the same time, but as you might guess you can only have one theme from either of them applied at one time.  I did read in another post that there was some small advantage to having WB installed (with its process running i.e. in Task Manager) even if you're using Curtains, so I'd leave WB installed if you already have it even if you lean more towards Curtains.

WindowBlinds skins more thoroughly that Curtains.  That may be why some of your programs accept Curtains more readily that WindowBlind, Curtains isn't trying to change as much.

Creating a skin, Curtains starts with the default Win10, so if you just want to create a new skin with a different taskbar for example, you can do that, and everything else with continue to look like Win10.

There aren't a lot of Curtains skins out there yet, but it hasn't been out very long at all.  Considering how new it is, there are really quite a lot.  Probably because it is much less complicated to skin.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Spent too long typing again, didn't I. ;)  

Reply #4 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Thanks all for your response. I do like both, but given that some of my apps don't skin well with WB (or not at all), I will stick with Curtains for now.  I also noticed that some WB skins don't apply properly to some areas (i.e. The close (X) button shows correctly but it won't close when I click on it.  Seems to be off-centered from where it should be.)

Reply #5 from Stardock.net Forums Top

BTW, I also noticed that with WB it does take a bit more resources.  Each time I closed a program, it took a few extra seconds before I could click on another program or tab.  Not so with Curtains.