v1.0.8.3-Stable

Warning
If you are using a language file, please re-download it from here

Warning
Please run SFC /scanfile=%windir%\System32\imageres.dll in Command Prompt as administrator and restart your Windows if you used a previous beta version to fix imageres.dll corruption made by modifying Windows startup sound. Don't use previous beta versions 1.0.7.x.

These are all new features since last stable release 1.0.8.0:

If you have read this before, read feature NO. 3 (Cursors new features), improvements and bugs fixes (to save your time)

1. WinPaletter is written now in C# instead of Visual Basic .NET

• In 1.0.8.3, there is extensive optimization in code after coding language shift and bugs fixes.
• It is expected to face bugs due to programming language shift. Please report problems you may face in Issues.

2. Multiple users

• It is possible now to control multiple users in WinPaletter.
• This feature helped WinPaletter to reduce UAC dialogs appearance and fixed issue of not applying and getting theme data from a different account #185
• Due to unknown reason, when you apply certain theme items to another user, you may notice that current user profile that opened WinPaletter is affected by the theme until logoff and log back on. After doing so, you will find that the selected user's profile is correctly themed, while the user who opened WinPaletter retains their previous state and is unaffected by the theme.
• So, the best practice method is to open target user then open WinPaletter inside this profile, not from a different one.

3. Cursors new features

• Cursors studio layout has been changed to tabs, making it easier to understand it instead of the old condensed layout
• Busy and app waiting cursors can be rendered in high size when high DPI is set
• Now you can select external cursors files instead of rendering them
• New style for busy and app waiting cursors; fluid. And dot scheme is changed into modern
• Fix scaling preview bug, and also in WinPaletter Store.

4. Sounds service #184

• Task Scheduler method is removed, being replaced by a service made by WinPaletter.
• This service listens to system events and play sounds according to the received event, and this method is relatively better than Task Scheduler method.
• This service can handle Windows shutdown, logoff, logon, account lock and unlock, and charger connection and disconnection sounds.

5. Drag and drop colors items - read this to learn more.

You can drag a color into another color to make it easier and quicker to change colors. You can also swap between colors, you can learn it from wiki.

DD_0.mp4

6. Palette extraction and distribution

• If you are confused with colors for your Windows colors, WinPaletter now can generate a palette from one color or from an image.

• Read this to learn more about this feature

7. Applying theme thread

• Applying WinPaletter theme is now in a separate thread, to fix issue of Windows and WinPaletter freezing #180 #155 #102
• New Explorer restart method (all to avoid crashing all open applications): When you apply a theme, firstly it will kill Explorer, waits for theme applying finish and finally reopen Explorer. Formerly, the method was both killing and opening after finishing theme apply.

8. Colors history

Click on a color item and navigate to history tab, you will see all color used for current open item.

• Read this to learn more about this feature

9. GUI language editor

• It will help you create, modify and update languages JSON files by showing mini-forms that you can edit so that you can see all text items in real time

• Read this to learn more about this feature

10. New download sources for WinPaletter

• Including WinGet and Chocolatey #168

• Read this to know how to download from these sources

11. Theme log levels

• There is a new level called "Advanced details" that shows you all registry modifications and actions done to your system during theme applying

• Read this to learn more about this feature

12. Windows Effects new feature

• Animate controls and elements inside window

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Improvements:

• Minor updates in WinPaletter UI, as a preparation for a new major WinPaletter UI update (new look)

• In classic colors: Plus! 98 CD themes are included as schemes

• Rescue tools are returned, to help you fix your Windows and manage current Windows session if you are stuck in an error

• Classic colors preview speed improvements

• UI improvements #186 and others.

• This is in code, but nothing will be visible to you: make WinPaletter can handle Windows 12. WinPaletter will manage it as if it is Windows 11 until Windows 12 stable is released and WinPaletter is optimized and tested in it.

• Cyotek color picker component is updated into 2.0.0-beta.7

• Sounds

  • Added Unlock and Charger connected sounds #170
  • Fix empty icons after patching imageres.dll
  • Fix "Sound API only supports playing PCM wave files" on opening a WAV file
  • Added alert dialog on changing PE files resources, for example imageres.dll (for startup sound)

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Bugs fixes:

• Fix user exception error that prevents users from opening WinPaletter #198
• Fix issues in Application themer
• Fix bug of applying application theme on closing WinPaletter Store with a theme open
• Fix error of WinEffects: GETCLIENTANIMATION get and set in Windows XP
• Fix preview not synced in classic colors after selecting a color
• Bug report fix: Windows 10 OS info if Windows 11 is running
• Alt+Tab opacity preview fix for Windows 10
• Sounds: Fix bug of repeated pathing imageres.dll alert with sounds are the same
• ExplorerPatcher error fix #181
• GUI translator bug fix: Form exception error #183
• Fix color picker not working in Windows XP
• Fix Preview of Windows 11/10 not syncing color with color picker
• Fix metrics preview of Windows XP to 8.1 (inner padding)
• Bug report fix: Windows 10 OS info if Windows 11 is running
• Fix issue of disappearing taskbar and start in preview
• Fix issue of conflict between custom DPI and metrics and fonts #179 #178
• Fix small icons fonts and other fonts on applying metrics and fonts with DPI higher than 125 and with delaying metrics and fonts effects option in settings is enabled
• Fix bug of opening an old theme file causes null or non-found values for the newly loaded theme
• Fix WinPaletter theme load issue #173

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Compare source code with:

Version Type	Version Code	Link
Previous Stable	1.0.8.0	Compare
Previous Beta	1.0.8.2	Compare
Initial Release	1.0.0.0	Compare

v1.0.8.2-Beta

Warning
If you are using a language file, please re-download it from here

Warning
Please run SFC /scanfile=%windir%\System32\imageres.dll in Command Prompt as administrator and restart your Windows if you used a previous beta version to fix imageres.dll corruption made by modifying Windows startup sound. Don't use previous beta versions 1.0.7.x.

New Features:

1. WinPaletter is written now in C# instead of Visual Basic .NET

• In 1.0.8.2, there is extensive optimization in code after coding language shift and bugs fixes.
• It is expected to face bugs due to programming language shift. Please report problems you may face in Issues.

2. Multiple users

• It is possible now to control multiple users in WinPaletter.
• This feature helped WinPaletter to reduce UAC dialogs appearance and fixed issue of not applying and getting theme data from a different account #185
• Due to unknown reason, when you apply certain theme items to another user, you may notice that current user profile that opened WinPaletter is affected by the theme until logoff and log back on. After doing so, you will find that the selected user's profile is correctly themed, while the user who opened WinPaletter retains their previous state and is unaffected by the theme.
• So, the best practice method is to open target user then open WinPaletter inside this profile, not from a different one.

3. Sounds service #184

• Task Scheduler method is removed, being replaced by a service made by WinPaletter.
• This service listens to system events and play sounds according to the received event, and this method is relatively better than Task Scheduler method.
• This service can handle Windows shutdown, logoff, logon, account lock and unlock, and charger connection and disconnection sounds.

4. Drag and drop colors items - read this to learn more.

You can drag a color into another color to make it easier and quicker to change colors. You can also swap between colors, you can learn it from wiki.

DD_0.mp4

5. Palette extraction and distribution

• If you are confused with colors for your Windows colors, WinPaletter now can generate a palette from one color or from an image.

• Read this to learn more about this feature

6. Applying theme thread

• Applying WinPaletter theme is now in a separate thread, to fix issue of Windows and WinPaletter freezing #180 #155 #102
• New Explorer restart method (all to avoid crashing all open applications): When you apply a theme, firstly it will kill Explorer, waits for theme applying finish and finally reopen Explorer. Formerly, the method was both killing and opening after finishing theme apply.

7. Colors history

Click on a color item and navigate to history tab, you will see all color used for current open item.

• Read this to learn more about this feature

8. GUI language editor

• It will help you create, modify and update languages JSON files by showing mini-forms that you can edit so that you can see all text items in real time

• Read this to learn more about this feature

9. New download sources for WinPaletter

• Including WinGet and Chocolatey #168

• Read this to know how to download from these sources

10. Theme log levels

• There is a new level called "Advanced details" that shows you all registry modifications and actions done to your system during theme applying

• Read this to learn more about this feature

11. Windows Effects new feature

• Animate controls and elements inside window

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Improvements:

• Rescue tools are returned, to help you fix your Windows and manage current Windows session if you are stuck in an error

• Classic colors preview speed improvements

• UI improvements #186 and others.

• This is in code, but nothing will be visible to you: make WinPaletter can handle Windows 12. WinPaletter will manage it as if it is Windows 11 until Windows 12 stable is released and WinPaletter is optimized and tested in it.

• Cyotek color picker component is updated into 2.0.0-beta.7

• Sounds

  • Added Unlock and Charger connected sounds #170
  • Fix empty icons after patching imageres.dll
  • Fix "Sound API only supports playing PCM wave files" on opening a WAV file
  • Added alert dialog on changing PE files resources, for example imageres.dll (for startup sound)

---

Bugs fixes:

• Sounds: Fix bug of repeated pathing imageres.dll alert with sounds are the same
• ExplorerPatcher error fix #181
• GUI translator bug fix: Form exception error #183
• Fix color picker not working in Windows XP
• Fix Preview of Windows 11/10 not syncing color with color picker
• Fix metrics preview of Windows XP to 8.1 (inner padding)
• Bug report fix: Windows 10 OS info if Windows 11 is running
• Fix issue of disappearing taskbar and start in preview
• Fix issue of conflict between custom DPI and metrics and fonts #179 #178
• Fix small icons fonts and other fonts on applying metrics and fonts with DPI higher than 125 and with delaying metrics and fonts effects option in settings is enabled
• Fix bug of opening an old theme file causes null or non-found values for the newly loaded theme
• Fix WinPaletter theme load issue #173

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Compare source code with:

Version Type	Version Code	Link
Previous Stable	1.0.8.0	Compare
Previous Beta	1.0.8.1	Compare
Initial Release	1.0.0.0	Compare

v1.0.8.1-Beta

Warning
If you are using a language file, please re-download it from here

Warning
Please run SFC /scanfile=%windir%\System32\imageres.dll in Command Prompt as administrator and restart your Windows if you used a previous beta version to fix imageres.dll corruption made by modifying Windows startup sound. Don't use previous beta versions 1.0.7.x.

New Features:

1. WinPaletter is written now in C# instead of Visual Basic .NET

It is expected to face bugs due to programming language shift. Please report problems you may face in Issues.

2. Drag and drop colors items - read this to learn more.

You can drag a color into another color to make it easier and quicker to change colors. You can also swap between colors, you can learn it from wiki.

DD_0.mp4

3. Palette extraction and distribution

• If you are confused with colors for your Windows colors, WinPaletter now can generate a palette from one color or from an image.

• Read this to learn more about this feature

4. Colors history

Click on a color item and navigate to history tab, you will see all color used for current open item.

• Read this to learn more about this feature

5. GUI language editor

• It will help you create, modify and update languages JSON files by showing mini-forms that you can edit so that you can see all text items in real time

• Read this to learn more about this feature

6. New download sources for WinPaletter

• Including WinGet and Chocolatey #168

• Read this to know how to download from these sources

7. Theme log levels

• There is a new level called "Advanced details" that shows you all registry modifications and actions done to your system during theme applying

• Read this to learn more about this feature

8. Windows Effects new feature

• Animate controls and elements inside window

---

Improvements:

• Sounds
  • Added Unlock and Charger connected sounds #170
  • Improvement in Task Scheduler deflection method #170
  • Fix empty icons after patching imageres.dll
  • Fix "Sound API only supports playing PCM wave files" on opening a WAV file
  • Added alert dialog on changing PE files resources, for example imageres.dll (for startup sound)

• Classic colors speed improvements

---

Bugs fixes:

• Fix issue of disappearing taskbar and start in preview
• Fix issue of conflict between custom DPI and metrics and fonts #179 #178
• Fix small icons fonts and other fonts on applying metrics and fonts with DPI higher than 125 and with delaying metrics and fonts effects option in settings is enabled
• Fix bug of opening an old theme file causes null or non-found values for the newly loaded theme
• Fix WinPaletter theme load issue #173

v1.0.8.0-Stable

Warning
Please run SFC /scanfile=%windir%\System32\imageres.dll in Command Prompt as administrator and restart your Windows if you used a previous beta version to fix imageres.dll corruption made by modifying Windows startup sound. Don't use previous beta versions.

Warning
Opening this new release after using old stable releases will reset your WinPaletter settings as its mechanism has been changed to a new better one. Know what you have changed in WinPaletter settings before using this release.

Note
The following items are all new features, changes and improvements made since latest stable version: 1.0.7.6

New Features:

1. WinPaletter Store:

• You can now apply themes from the Store either online or offline from local folder
• You can also upload your themes
• Read this to know more about WinPaletter Store
• WinPaletter Store is redesigned from latest beta versions

2. Help (Wiki)

• This will help you use WinPaletter, making it simpler than before
• Visit it
• Help buttons are added to most forms to redirect you to related wiki page

3. Sounds #138:

• Now you can modify most Windows sounds events entries, including Windows Vista to 11 startup

4. Screen Saver #138:

• You might not know it, it was an animated full-screen window to save\preserve CRT monitors in the past
• You can select a file that you can get online or from an old Windows, its extension is .scr
• You can find some screen savers in %windir%\System32

5. Wallpaper #137:

• Now you can select an image or a color to be set as your wallpaper, and you can also change its style
• Wallpaper tone feature has been moved here to Wallpaper

6. WinPaletter application theme:

• Now you can change the colors/style of WinPaletter itself, to make it consistent with a theme you design
• You can prevent or block its actions by going to Settings > Appearance and uncheck (Make WinPaletter appearance is managed by the loaded theme ......)

7. Theme file (*.wpth) reading/writing mechanism is rewritten:

• Now, theme file contents will be written as JSON that is better in coding, this new theme file format is valid for WinPaletter 1.0.7.7 and higher not lower
• You can convert themes made by old versions of WinPaletter to make them compatible with new WinPaletter versions
• New format can be compressed to save space especially for WinPaletter Store, to make loading themes from servers quick
• New format can have an external theme resources pack file that contains images. sounds, screen savers,... that is loaded each time you load its theme. And this is useful for sharing themes especially through WinPaletter Store
• External theme resources pack can be made by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon) and go to 'Theme resources pack' and check its choice

8. Theme file info:

• New options are added in WinPaletter theme info, including info for Store that is useful for uploading themes, options related to external themes resources pack and theme credits\licenses
• Edit these info by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon), open all tabs and then edit the info

9. Windows Effects new features:

• Colors Filter (Accessibility feature) #136
• Hide scrollbar in modern Windows 10/11 apps #135
• Full Screen start menu for Windows 10
• Enable Windows 7 taskbar volume mixer for Windows 10 only

10. Metrics and Fonts new features:

• You can change Shell Icon and Shell Small Icon for Windows XP #133
• In Miscellaneous, you can make the fonts "Single bit per pixel" to give your fonts the look of old versions of Windows

11. WinPaletter settings read/write mechanism is re-written

And this is to make it more organized (each section is in a separate key (folder)) and export/import mechanisms changed to be with JSON format. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinPaletter\Settings after opening WinPaletter to know the changed mechanism if you are curious

Improvements:

1. Color item info:

   • It was formely named nerd color info
   • There will be a dot inside color info rectangle to indicate that the choosen color is not as the default color
   • Color picker control is now condensed, the previous one was extremely big compared to its contents
   • New settings section:
     • Make color label more transparent
     • Use default Windows monospaced font instead of JetBrains Mono
     • Use classic color picker instead of WinPaletter's default one on pressing on a color palette item

2. Extensive reduction in memory (RAM) ussage:

   1. Removed fonts lists in consoles\terminals, being replaced by native Windows Fonts picker (to reduce large memory allocation while loading list of fonts)
   2. Improvements in loading language file (less memory usage and quick application loading time)
   3. Fix memory leak on palette extraction from image
   4. Improvements in loading wallpaper thumbnail, with fixing its bug #166

3. Updated JetbrainMono font to v2.304

4. Patching imageres.dll is blocked by defaults in settings, read this for more info

5. Save theme confirmation dialog redesigned, with new applying options (first theme and default Windows)

6. Bug reporting (Exceptions errors handling) improvements

7. Now WinPaletter will always start elevated (start as administrator) to make applying themes quicker as much as possible, and to avoid patching imageres.dll error (on changing Windows startup sound)

8. Drag and drop preview is removed (as this feature is not supported in any Windows application started as administrator)

9. Language items/texts of What's new labels will be neither loaded nor exported in/from it to avoid confusion between newly added labels' texts and old language translation

10. Embedded assemblies (references) are now compressed (to try to make WinPaletter with a small file size as much as possible)

Bugs fixes:

1. OS detection method changed to avoid bug #164
2. Application startup crash #153
3. Fix no wallpaper preview with wallpaper sideshow or windows spotlight is enabled
4. WinPaletter update error #154
5. Fix wrong preview of color on Windows 11/10 taskbar
6. Fix wallpaper preview is not synchronized in Windows XP
7. Fix application crash on starting WinPaletter with classic theme enabled
8. Windows Terminal:
   • Fixed edit button sets wrong text on pressing cancel
   • Fix error occuring during loading Windows Terminal preferences that inhibits the application from opening #147
9. Fix bug of Windows 8.1 Start screen black rectangles if designing theme from another version of Windows (not 8.1)
10. Fix Windows 7 and 8.1 logonUI/lock screen applying error
11. Fix applying fonts size trouble with high DPI #157 #160
12. Metrics and fonts form error #155
13. Fix error on pressing 'Logoff' button on main form #141 #167
14. Fix theme apply error on applying Windows Effects #163
15. Windows switcher crash #149
16. Fix bug of dark/light mode loading in 'Language add snippet' form
17. UI #134
18. Spelling correction #140

Compare source code with:

Version Type	Version Code	Link
Previous Stable	1.0.7.6	Compare
Previous Beta	1.0.6.9	Compare
Initial Release	1.0.0.0	Compare

v1.0.7.9-Beta

Note: Opening this new release after using old releases will reset your WinPaletter settings as its mechanism has been changed to a new better one. Know what you have changed in WinPaletter settings before using this release.

The same as 1.0.7.7 and 1.0.7.8 with a new feature, improvements and some bugs fixes:

• New feature: WinPaletter settings read/write mechanism is re-written to be more organized (each section is in a separate key (folder)) and export/import mechanisms changed to be with JSON format. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\WinPaletter\Settings after opening WinPaletter to know the changed mechanism if you are curious.

• Now WinPaletter will always start elevated (start as administrator) to make applying themes quicker as much as possible, and to avoid patching imageres.dll error (on changing Windows startup sound)

• Improvements in loading language file (less memory usage and quick application loading time)

• Language items/texts of What's new labels will be neither loaded nor exported in/from it to avoid confusion between newly added labels' texts and old language translation

• Drag and drop preview is removed (as this feature is not supported in any Windows application started as administrator)

• Embedded assemblies (references) are now compressed (to try to make WinPaletter with a small file size as much as possible)

• Fix bug of dark/light mode loading in Language add snippet form

• Fix bug of Windows 8.1 Start screen black rectangles if designing theme from another version of Windows (not 8.1)

• Fix fonts size trouble with high DPI #157 #160

• Fix theme apply error on applying Windows Effects #163

v1.0.7.8-Beta

The same as 1.0.7.7 with some bugs fixes:

• Fonts size trouble with high DPI #157
• Metrics and fonts form error #155
• WinPaletter update error #154
• Application startup crash #153
• Windows switcher crash #149

v1.0.7.7-Beta

New Features:

1. WinPaletter Store (Beta):

• You can now apply themes from the Store either online or offline from local folder.
• You can also upload your themes.
• WinPaletter Store will have initially small amount of themes and it will grow more and more with progression of time.
• Read this to understand more about WinPaletter Store.

2. Sounds #138:

• Now you can modify most Windows sounds events entries, including Windows Vista to 11 startup.

3. Screen Saver #138:

• You might not know it, it was an animated full-screen window to save\preserve CRT monitors in the past.
• You can select a file that you can get online or from an old Windows, its extension is (.scr).
• You can find some screen savers in %windir%\System32

4. Wallpaper #137:

• Now you can select an image or a color to be set as your wallpaper, and you can also change its style.
• Wallpaper tone feature has been moved here to Wallpaper.

5. WinPaletter application theme:

• Now you can change the colors/style of WinPaletter itself, to make it consistent with a theme you design
• You can prevent or block its actions by going to Settings > Appearance and uncheck (Make WinPaletter appearance is managed by the loaded theme ................)

6. Theme file (*.wpth) reading/writing mechanism is rewritten:

• Now, theme file contents will be written as JSON that is better in coding, this new theme file format is valid for WinPaletter 1.0.7.7 and higher not lower.
• You can convert themes made by old versions of WinPaletter to make them compatible with new WinPaletter versions.
• New format can be compressed to save space especially for WinPaletter Store, to make loading themes from servers quick.
• New format can have an external theme resources pack file that contains images. sounds, screen savers,... that is loaded each time you load its theme. And this is useful for sharing themes especially through WinPaletter Store.
• External theme resources pack can be made by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon) and go to "Theme resources pack" and check its choice.

7. Theme file info:

• New options are added in WinPaletter theme info, including info for Store that is useful for uploading themes, options related to external themes resources pack and theme credits\licenses.
• Edit these info by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon),open all tabs and then edit the info.

8. Windows Effects new features:

• Colors Filter (Accessibility feature) #136
• Hide scrollbar in modern Windows 10/11 apps #135
• Full Screen start menu for Windows 10

9. Metrics and Fonts new features:

• You can change Shell Icon and Shell Small Icon for Windows XP #133
• In Miscellaneous, you can make the fonts "Single bit per pixel" to give your fonts the look of old versions of Windows

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Improvements:

• Bug reporting (Exceptions errors handling) improvements
• Settings load\save improvements
• Save theme confirmation dialog redesigned, with new applying options (first theme and default Windows)
• Added an option to use the native classic Windows color picker instead of WinPaletter's one (Open Settings > Miscellaneous)
• Improvements for previewer in both main form and drag-drop
• Removed fonts lists in consoles\terminals, being replaced by native Windows Fonts picker (to reduce large memory allocation while loading list of fonts)

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Bugs fixes:

• Fix memory leak on palette extraction from image
• Fix logoff process is not found on pressing logoff button #141
• Fix error occuring during loading Windows Terminal preferences that inhibits the application from opening #147
• Fix no wallpaper preview with wallpaper sideshow or windows spotlight is enabled
• Fix wallpaper preview is not synchronized in Windows XP
• Fix wrong preview of color on Windows 11/10 taskbar
• Fix application crash on starting WinPaletter with classic theme enabled
• UI #134
• Spelling correction #140

v1.0.7.6-Stable

The same as 1.0.7.5, except for:

1. Windows 11 preview and description labels

• Windows 11 preview is redesigned to make it closer to the latest stable builds.
• Description labels are re-written, they are dependent on the latest stable Windows 11. If your Windows is outdated, these labels might not be the same as your current system.
• If you installed ExplorerPatcher and uninstalled it, WinPaletter will detect ExplorerPatcher is still installed (due do ExplorerPatcher registry remnants) and so the descriptions will be different. You can solve this by going to Settings > ExplorerPatcher and then disable preview synchronization.

2. Cursors Shadow:

• Now you can modify cursors shadow. You can control its color, blur power, opacity and its offset (X, Y).
• Each cursor has its own separate shadow.
• Shadow in "Miscellaneous" part is rendered by Windows, while custom shadow is rendered by WinPaletter itself.
• The more you enable custom shadow, the more WinPaletter will take to render the cursor.

3. Improvements and fixes:

• Fixing classic cursor main arrow to make it matches the classic NT cursor outline.
• Improvements in Windows 7/Vista preview speed while customizing titlebar height in metrics. (There was a lag)
• Fixing crashing bug during applying a classic color with classic theme enabled or applying classic colors with switching from a theme to classic mode in Windows XP, Vista & 7
• Making a visual-styles change in Windows XP being applied to login screen too.
• Fixing bug in reading "Fonts Substitutes" from theme file.
• Fixing bug in reading and saving "Fonts" from\to theme file.
• Mechanism of detecting internet connection becomes quicker than before.
• UI improvements.

v1.0.7.5-Stable

The same as 1.0.7.4, except for:

1. Windows Effects new items:

• Change Explorer Bar for Windows 11 (Requires ExplorerPatcher) #117, Windows 10 and 8.1 #123
• Disable Navigation bar #122 #105

2. Windows 10

• A new option is made to control Windows elements blur (Its toggle is located beside transparency's toggle)

3. Changes and fixes:

• UI improvements: #124
• Some options in Windows Effects and cursors lose their effects after logoff. Now they are fixed.
• Mechanism of reading from\writing to registry improved a bit
• New options are added in Settings > Theme Applying Behavior to extend their applying scope in registry (All users). The options are for User Preference Mask, Logoff Wallpaper (Tested in Windows XP), Classic Colors, Metrics and Fonts, Cursors and Consoles.

v1.0.7.4-Stable

The same as 1.0.7.3, except for:

1. Windows Effects new items (For Windows 11 only):

• Change Explorer Bar for Windows 11 (Requires ExplorerPatcher) #117
• Switch between Circle/Spinning Dots in Windows 11 boot screen

2. Classic Colors schemes:

• The illustrator has been updated, it will follow the colors you choose.
• You can change the scope in which classic colors can be applied. Go to Settings > Theme Applying Behavior to change its preferences. #114

3. Changes and fixes:

• UI improvements: #120 #119 #118 #116 #115 #113