Stardock Curtains Changelog

What's new in Stardock Curtains 1.19

Jun 22, 2021
  • Fixes a repaint issue with the taskbar, prevents curtains from interfering with other taskbar controlling applications when taskbar skinning is disabled (reboot required after changing)
  • https://forums.stardock.com/505185/despite-disabling-taskbar-theming-in-curtains-it-interferes-with-the-taskba
  • Fixes a problem with the background of part of the ribbon when in glass mode

New in Stardock Curtains 1.18 (Apr 26, 2021)

  • Notes coming soon.

New in Stardock Curtains 1.17 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • Resolve issue with beta version of MS edge - where website search boxes were not showing recommendations
  • Fixes and issue with the vertical tabs option that could have resulted in a visual glitch

New in Stardock Curtains 1.15 (Jan 5, 2021)

  • Fix for a blank line with glass in explorer

New in Stardock Curtains 1.12 (Nov 3, 2020)

  • Should stop the text moving up on a titlebar as you add more blur
  • Adds a force glass explorer backgrounds option to the light/dark drop down. This is disabled for Windows 10 style and if a style has glassy backgrounds set. This setting is global and applies to all styles when set (apart from those mentioned)

New in Stardock Curtains 1.11 (Oct 13, 2020)

  • When picking edit on a style if you press escape or the close button in the titlebar it aborts the edit
  • Fixed issue not seeing shadows when creating modified skins when using a language which uses Unicode characters

New in Stardock Curtains 1.10 (Sep 16, 2020)

  • Improved apply speed
  • New options for Windows Explorer background: transparency, blur, active inactive color, etc
  • https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/2020-08-24_13-21-51.png
  • New option to extend titlebar into top of ribbon in explorer windows
  • https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/2020-08-24_13-26-54.png
  • Automatically sets inactive color to ensure Chrome tabs when inactive are not forced white incorrectly (styles which do not set the OS option to apply the accent color to the titlebars will remain white inactive)
  • Disables animations when max / restoring explorer windows when using acrylic glass
  • Should fix a reported issue with Edge vertical tabs and the new tab replacement option in edge
  • https://forums.stardock.com/501276/black-bar-in-microsoft-edge-when-activating-vertical-tabs
  • Tweak which may address the issue with leftover back buttons from PWA apps
  • Makes the edit buttons in app now use the default verb vs edit as some editing apps didn't set the edit verb.
  • Modifies the online tab to handle odd aspect ratio previews better especially double height ones.
  • Fixes a crash in Windows Explorer if you use Start10 and define just a taskbar button (and no taskbar)
  • Fixes the taskbar being a solid color if you use Classic Shell (not Open Shell - just the older classic shell)

New in Stardock Curtains 1.01 (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Modified how the naming of styles work when creating one that could have resulted in an upload crash
  • Fixed a possible issue when editing a theme that could result in Windows Explorer crashing repeatedly
  • Fixed issue where if you open Edge or Chrome from a shortcut to a webpage you get errors
  • Fixes an issue where explorer could crash out when opening a new MS edge instance
  • Fixed an issue with some Univeral apps where the titlebar text did not get updated when the file being viewed is changed.
  • Fixed an issue where opening a URL shortcut (from the desktop) would create duplicate tabs in Chromium browsers

New in Stardock Curtains 1.0 (Jul 22, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue that could result in titlebar UI elements showing an onhover state when the cursor was away from them.
  • Fixed a tool window border issue with a number of style
  • Fixed a font issue in the config app where the font for some UI elements gets switched to a small bold one after using the advanced properties window
  • Fix missing back button in Windows Photos app
  • Fixes a small memory and a handle leak
  • By default, Curtains will now skin Chromium browsers
  • Fixed an issue where Curtains would always prompt for restarting browsers even if you didn't have the option enabled to theme them