Thanks again Basj. I just renewed Object Desktop for another year but strangely enough I got sent 2 x receipts. Is there a way I can check I haven't been charged twice?

Also...  do I need to remove my existing version before installing the new one - or will the Object Desktop Manager take care of all that for me?

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The Transparency effect is not working. 

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Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need more information on what is not working. Please show us which part and which style transparency effect is not working for you.

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The Windows Explorer background transparency effact is not working. 
I am using Splash Green on v1.1 Curtans.

Hello,

You need to turn on the transparency for each style. Here what it look like if your turn it on.

Here is how you turn and adjust it. Curtains config -> Edit style -> Windows tab-> Advance Property -> scroll down to Explorer background blur mode -> Drop down menu ->Choose blur type and change those within that section colors and transparency level active and inactive mode and also there are different sections between Dark and light mode. Click "apply changes" button to see the changes.

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Hello,

You need to turn on the transparency for each style. Here what it look like if your turn it on.

Reduced 90%

Original 929 x 657

Here is how you turn and adjust it. Curtains config -> Edit style -> Windows tab-> Advance Property -> scroll down to Explorer background blur mode -> Drop down menu ->Choose blur type and change those within that section colors and transparency level active and inactive mode and also there are different sections between Dark and light mode. Click "apply changes" button to see the changes.

Reduced 57%

Original 1454 x 963

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Basj,
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Than Worked !

Thanks .. 😊

Great, glad it work.

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Guys,

I have been trying to figure out which software to use for skinning Windows 10 with a Windows XP or Windows 7 theme, including round corners and including scrollbars, for a long time without real success. 

Can somebody point me in the right direction, particularly whether I should use WindowBlinds or Curtains, or something else?

Me too.

You would want to use WindowBlinds (plus Start10) which skins more thoroughly than Curtains.  For example, Curtains does not skin scrollbars.  Even at that though, an XP style skin on Win10 is not going to look exactly like XP, some things simply won't skin the same.

Here are a couple of XP style skins for Win10 I found just now;

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/9262/

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/9119/

Thank you Dave, that looks great!

I have installed WindowBlinds now and tried one of the themes that come with it. 

Works good, however, it seems that the skinning is not HiDPI aware?

Everything looks blurry on my 4K monitors with Windows scaling set to 200%:

Is that normal, I mean, are the skin elements of WindowBlinds (like buttons, round corners etc.) not available with HiDPI resolution?

I don't know the answer to that, and you will probably have better luck if you start a new thread perhaps here:

https://forums.wincustomize.com/forum/167

Thanks -- I believe that is one of the two that also Dave has linked.

I shall try one of these, or even the beautiful Vista Plus, as soon as I find out whether my HiDPI/Retina monitor setup is supported.

Edit:
Unfortunately, WindowBlinds damaged interfered with my patched theme (i.e. did not restore it completely on reset). Not even restoring the system to a point in time before installing WindowBlinds helped with this.

Luckily, I was able to restore the theme by re-patching it with the excellent UltraUXThemePatcher, like so: