AcrylicMenus

AcrylicMenus is deprecating in favor of TranslucentFlyouts

• Fixed flickering when removing white border in menus in Dark Theme immersive menus
  We no longer need to schedule border redrawing
  This improvement was ported from TranslucentFlyouts

• Enable Dark Theme menus border removal by default

• Fixed memory leak

• Fixed an issue when Windows 10 dark menus white border removal feature affected non-ownerdrawn menus

• Support for removing white borders of dark Windows 10 context menus

• Fixed an issue with artifacts appearing randomly near popup separators

• Fixed an issue when keyboard focus outline was missing on Windows 11 22H2+

• Fixed issues with theme mismatch

• Fixed dark mode detection on Windows 11

This is the first stable version of AcrylicMenus

Since this release, AcrylicMenus is based on TranslucentFlyouts, which allows more customization, while AcrylicMenus is focused on vanilla Windows design.

Release notes:

• Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 are supported by this release
• Does not work correctly with Windows 11 21H2 due to blue highlight in context menus
  This can be solved by replacing aero.msstyles with an older version, which was used in Windows 11 June 2021 Beta builds

For maximum stability and avoiding incompatibilities AcrylicMenus will work only in File Explorer, however, techicially it is possible to make it run in other Win32 applications.

Improvements:

• Applying acrylic without using layered windows, but by modifying immersive context menu theme data
• Using Windows Event Hooking instead of hooking a DLL into each process
• Improved performance and reliability

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a delay before applying acrylic effect
• Fixed flickering after applying acrylic effect
• Fixed font rendering issues when acrylic is applied

Known issues:

• It does not work well with dark context menu of taskbar while apps use light mode
• Ligatures at the end of the context menus are flickering when acrylic effect is applied
• There is an opaque border on context menus, even when acrylic effect is applied
  This issue can be resolved by patching styles file (aero.msstyles)

Notes:

• You need to restart AcrylicMenus if you restart File Explorer
• Only Windows 10 19H1+ x64 is supported by this release
• Currently limited to File Explorer immersive context menus only
• Custom themes are not supported
• After stopping AcrylicMenus, you need to reboot or relogin to normalize context menus look

Bugfixes:

• Fixed an issue when acrylic effect was not applied to Explorer menus until process restart
• Fixed an issue when acrylic effect was not applied to Explorer menus in Windows 11 Dark Theme

Very early preview version

Known issues:

• Acrylic effect may be not applied to Explorer context menus after injecting the hook
  Restart Explorer process until it will work
• Acrylic effect is not displayed on Windows 11 Explorer context menus when dark theme is enabled