AcrylicMenus
AcrylicMenus is a tiny application that applies acrylic effect to almost all existing Win32 context menus on Windows 10 and Windows 11 via native Win32 hooking API.
AcrylicMenus is based on TranslucentFlyouts by @ALTaleX531 and @Maplespe, which supports custom themes and aims to provide as many options for customization as possible, while AcrylicMenus aims primarily at a standard look and feel and match the design of Windows.
Installing
AcrylicMenus is distributed in a zip archive, which contains the injection DLL and a loader. To start AcrylicMenus, launch the AcrylicMenusLoader.exe - administrator rights are not required.
There's other an installer based on batch files, which can help you to install it for current user or globally with double click.
Configuring
For finer customization, you can use TranslucentFlyouts, while AcrylicMenus follows a vanilla Windows design.
For minimal performance impact, all settings are hardcoded, so you need to rebuild the project to change them. They are located in AppearanceConfiguration.h.
Technically, AcrylicMenus supports all Win32 applications, excluding legacy and custom (ownerdrawn) popup menus, however, currently, for maximum stability and avoiding incompatibilities, it only works with File Explorer menus by default. To do this, change the parameter INJECT_EXPLORER_ONLY in AcrylicMenusLoader.cpp.
Removing white border in Windows 10 Dark Theme
In dark theme, Windows 10 menus have very ugly white borders. It is not possible to prevent them from being painted because they are in the non-client area, but it is possible to override them after some delay, which is already done in light theme, however, doing this to the dark menu causes much more eye attention and looks unpleasant.
So, this functionality is disabled by default, but can be optionally toggled by adding DWORD registry key RedrawDarkThemeBorders to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AcrylicMenus with value 1.
You can do this from command line:
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\AcrylicMenus" /v RedrawDarkThemeBorders /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Restart AcrylicMenus to apply changes.
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