AcrylicMenus vs AccentColorizer

AcrylicMenus

Acrylic effect for all existing Win32 context menus (by krlvm)

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AccentColorizer

Recolorize Win32 controls in-memory with accent color without patching theme (by krlvm)

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AcrylicMenus		AccentColorizer
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7	Mentions	8
590	Stars	316
-	Growth	-
4.2	Activity	4.3
9 months ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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AcrylicMenus

Posts with mentions or reviews of AcrylicMenus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-19.

classic context menu with win11 acrylic effect, best of both worlds!
2 projects | /r/Windows11 | 19 Mar 2023

It's a tool acrylic menu
Notepad++ Now Works Better on Windows 11
7 projects | /r/Windows11 | 9 Mar 2023

Microsoft could have gone this route for adding Acrylic/Mica to the context menu, but no, in classic fashion they had to overdo something new and half-ass it at the same time.
Super slow & laggy context menu (Windows 11 22H2)
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 27 Feb 2023

You can still restore the old context menu via registry hack, and if you want to keep the acrylic aesthetic you can use acrylic menus, startallback (paid but has a 100 day free trial and it has many many other features) and Nilesoft Shell (it requires you to read the documentation to customize it though, so not that user friendly but it looks the best out of the three imo)
Anyone lose all custom context menu for folder after update? For example I had to reinstall VS Code to have Open with VS Code back
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 29 Sep 2022

It can be better with this app: https://github.com/krlvm/AcrylicMenus
make old taskbar translucent
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 20 Jan 2022
A program to make win32 context menus follow acrylic. Seems like someone thought fine, I'll do it myself.
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 29 Dec 2021

Here: https://github.com/krlvm/AcrylicMenus/releases

AccentColorizer

Posts with mentions or reviews of AccentColorizer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.

Unused Windows 11 dark mode variant of the generic system notification sound
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 21 May 2023

[AccentColorizer](https://github.com/krlvm/AccentColorizer
hey guys, I'm deep into the Google ecosystem, is there a way to bring Material You to Windows 11 and make the UI looks a bit more like Chromebook?
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 11 Apr 2023

I know this probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but if you just care about having the colors match the wallpaper like what Material You does, then AccentColorizer may work for you.
Use accent color in glyphs like AccentColorizer-E11?
2 projects | /r/nilesoft | 9 Mar 2023

I came here to see if the nilesoft dev might consider using windows accent color to color the glyphs in shell similar to AccentColorizer-E11 I realized that people who appreciate shell might also appreciate AccentColorizer too.
I didn't know text highlight in settings followed the accent color.
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 1 Mar 2023

You can use AccentColorizer for that
Is there a way to globally change the transparency of Windows?
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 16 Feb 2023
make select line blue again(?)
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 7 Dec 2022
AccentColorizer - free and open-source customization tool
1 project | /r/Windows10 | 5 Jun 2022
Finally a nicer looking old context menus (Build 22494)
1 project | /r/Windows11 | 5 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing AcrylicMenus and AccentColorizer you can also consider the following projects:

TranslucentTB - A lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.

SecureUxTheme - 🎨 A secure boot compatible in-memory UxTheme patcher

LGTVCompanion - Power On and Off WebOS LG TVs together with your PC

AccentColorizer-E11 - Accent Colorization for Windows 11 File Explorer Icon Glyphs

JaxCore - A beautiful set of tools and widgets to spice up your desktop.

YourFlyouts - Fully customizable, multi-designed flyouts replacement for Windows

ClassicSearch - Restore classic File Explorer search and shrink address bar on Windows 10 19H2+

AccentApplicator - A tool to apply accent color to win32 controls.

RainbowTaskbar - Powerful, customizable Windows 10/11 taskbar effects.

BeautySearch - Windows 10+ Search Window appearance tweaker

ProjectReunion - The Windows App SDK empowers all Windows desktop apps with modern Windows UI, APIs, and platform features, including back-compat support, shipped via NuGet.