Vista Plus port [7 style]
adni18 has kindly given permission to use a ported variation (menu only) version of his famous Vista Plus WindowBlinds theme.
All credit belongs to the original creator "adni18". All menu images are owned by "adni18".
I have only modified to fit the Classic Shell menu format.
Here is a link to the actual WindowBlinds Vista Plus theme:
https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/5814/Here is his web site and Wincustomize site to see other themes he has made:
https://www.adni18.com/http://adni18.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=1&p=1Note about WindowBlinds and Start 10 behavior.
Classic Shell is not compatible with the WindowBlinds themes.
CS menu will show wrong text color and odd taskbar behavior when using WindowBlinds together,
and permanently mess with system Win 10 colors, which needs a reset of control panel/colors in registry after WB is uninstalled.
I had to use this site:
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/rese ... -settings/because not only the blue system highlight color refused to go back to default,
it also changed the search box menu WindowFrame color on any classic 1/2 style skins.
So if you like what you see here and want the full theme, you can always buy WindowBlinds software for around $10 to $15 (plus $7 for Start 10 if on Windows 10), and download adni18's full theme.
Just don't mix with Classic Shell.
About this opaque ported menu skin.
adni18 has made a great looking blue-grey start menu with blue selector buttons that have the Vista glow at the bottom.
There is one big area I could not duplicate from adni18's menu. His original jump list view is blue and the search list view is off white.
Classic Shell can't do that because the text color/selector button has to be the same type.
So I had to put in an option for both views off white, or both views blue color.
Also, on Win 10 the "Jumplist pane width" at CS default is set at 40, which seems too wide. Just set to 30 to 36 in the "Main Menu" settings tab.
I added options to use most of his selector button types from his theme.
This CS start menu is a big file because of the blue gradient texture on the qty 15 main menu bitmaps for 100%/125%/150% display sizes.
I was going to add dither to the main off white columns to get rid of the vertical steps,
but that would add at least another 1 meg to the skin file, and the steps are not that noticeable unless your display is viewed higher than your eyes.
The skin file, start button, taskbar image, and wallpaper are in the zip file.
Place the Vista Plus port.skin7 file in the skins folder (usually C:\Program Files\Classic Shell\Skins).
Go to "Start Menu Style" tab and set to "Windows 7 style" and pick Vista Plus port in the dropdown list in the "Skin" tab.
EDIT: I re-uploaded with a minor change.
The gap between the submenu icon and text was too small, especially at 150% display size. Now increased.
EDIT: This skin was ported when using Windows 1903
If using Windows 1909, Microsoft has altered their code
in that the skin list option "Centered shutdown button for English default settings on Win 10"
will not be centered anymore in Windows 1909. Use the "Centered for Win 8" option instead.