Curtains for Windows 11?

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Is there an officially released version or beta of Curtains for Windows 11 and if not is there any type of release window?

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Sorry to be the one to tell you but as far as I know, there aren't any.

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How unfortunate.  I jut paid a renewal subscription because I purchased a new computer and need to re-install. Here is th funny thing Downloaded Curtains 1.19 and it was running on my new Windows 11 home setup.  Then my hard drive crashed for another unrelated reason I think. Hen i put a new SSD in and reloaded my system, now Curtains gives me a an error message on install that it will not run on Windows 11.  How is it that I had it running and now can't install?  I even downloaded additional skins and installed them.

Please do not post the same issue in multiple threads. I have deleted and moved your other post here:

Interesting. I purchased a new computer about 5 days ago with Windows 11 installed. and spent three days loading it up and on the fourth day the SSD failed. Just after I setup my icons with Icon Packager. The interesting point here is that I installed Curtains with o popup windows and it was running. I even downloaded some skins for it. I believe the SSD issues was more related to San Disk NAND 990 SSD problems with failures than anything else, but when I reloaded everything from scratch today I got the error message while trying to install Curtains. So the big question is, how was I able to install it with no problems and run it successfully??

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Is there an officially released version or beta of Curtains for Windows 11 and if not is there any type of release window?
The realease of Windows 11 broke the way Curtains handeld the skinning of Windows, so it was discontinued. Some users have installed and used it under Windows 11, but it was not skinning correctly, only changed colors and did not apply all skin elements, and as you have experienced, caused crashes.

There is to my knowledge no plans for a version of Curtains for Windows 11.

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Quoting R, reply 2

So the big question is, how was I able to install it with no problems and run it successfully??

Old installers will still install curtains on Windows 11. The newer installers block it for the reasons listed above.

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So are we saying that Curtains running on Windows 11 might have been why my hard drive crashed to an un-recoverable state?

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Quoting R, reply 5

So are we saying that Curtains running on Windows 11 might have been why my hard drive crashed to an un-recoverable state?

No.

Curtains will not crash your os when on Windows 11, it simply has most of the features non functional hence us blocking installation on Windows 11 to prevent user complaints about it partially working.

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Quoting Jan, reply 3



Is there an officially released version or beta of Curtains for Windows 11 and if not is there any type of release window?

The realease of Windows 11 broke the way Curtains handeld the skinning of Windows, so it was discontinued. Some users have installed and used it under Windows 11, but it was not skinning correctly, only changed colors and did not apply all skin elements, and as you have experienced, caused crashes.

There is to my knowledge no plans for a version of Curtains for Windows 11.

I was just about to ask this before I found this thread. I recently installed W11 and now Curtains only partially displays presets. Shame it's not gonna be updated for W11. :( I suppose I'll stick with WindowBlinds 11 then.

Quoting Neil, reply 6


Quoting R J1143,

So are we saying that Curtains running on Windows 11 might have been why my hard drive crashed to an un-recoverable state?



No.

Curtains will not crash your os when on Windows 11, it simply has most of the features non functional hence us blocking installation on Windows 11 to prevent user complaints about it partially working.

I first noticed this problem when I tried using your GeoWarp style Neil. Very nice by the way. Oh well. :(

Thanks for the info.