Explorer BG Transparency Enabler

[Nimbi]

Explorer BG Transparency Enabler
Enable Transparent File Explorer for MSSTYLE Visual Styles

Requirements

• Stardock Curtains
• Windows 10 1809+

Instructions

• Apply a Visual Style
• Load Explorer BG Transparency Enabler into Stardock Curtains
• In Stardock Curtains select the Force glass explorer backgrounds option as displayed in the screenshot below:

Notes

• Permission is granted to anyone who wants to use this as a base to make custom Curtains Style[s] for their theme[s].
• Stardock Curtains IS NOT currently compatible with Windows 11

DOWNLOAD
explorer bg transparency enabler.rar

[ミறѳѳղղįզվદ彡]

really awesomeand very helpful work my friend

[Nimbi]

Update 01/27/2021 10:23 AM -07:00 MST

• Now contains two Curtains Styles [One for Light themes and one for Dark themes]
• Both require AppMode to be set to Dark in order to avoid the white squares around the navigation icons.

[mkpcxxl]

Hi Nimbi,

nice project, looks really good.
The only thing I would like to see is the navigation pane also blured like the main window.
Would be great if you could do this.

Regards
mkpcxxl

[ミறѳѳղղįզվદ彡]

Update 01/27/2021 10:23 AM -07:00 MST

• Now contains two Curtains Styles [One for Light themes and one for Dark themes]
• Both require AppMode to be set to Dark in order to avoid the white squares around the navigation icons.

Hi Nimbi,

nice project, looks really good.
The only thing I would like to see is the navigation pane also blured like the main window.
Would be great if you could do this.

Regards
mkpcxxl

thank you for the update
and blurry navigation pane its not a bad idea
this be look more cool

[Nimbi]

Hi Nimbi,

nice project, looks really good.
The only thing I would like to see is the navigation pane also blured like the main window.
Would be great if you could do this.

Regards
mkpcxxl

thank you for the update
and blurry navigation pane its not a bad idea
this be look more cool

Yo, thankls for the comments. As for the blurry nav pane, that would require custom title bar images. So it isn't really something that can be made universal with Curtains. You would need to make an edit of the style for use specifically with the theme being applied to that uses custom images. As it stands Stardock Curtaisn uses images for the title bar that can be extended further down. But it would override the MSSTYLE if the images were different than those used by the MSSTYLE so I left all custom images out by default to ensure it would be fully compatible with all MSSTYLE themes.

With that said, I have no problem with people using this as a base to replace Aero Glass with. It's actually one of the reasons I made it. So feel free to mess around with it and tweak it to whatever you feel works for you.