Hi,

I tried most of the included ones and a couple of highly rated community ones.  I was using the Modern style before reverting back to the Windows default.

I'm on Windows 10, but I did take another look at personalize and noticed that "Show accent color" for taskbar was unchecked - turning that on fixed the notification area color inconsistency.  But the far bigger problem is the fonts... it's especially bothersome in third party apps, like LibreOffice, which are supposed to take their UI settings from Windows.

I tried re-installing WindowBlinds and re-applying the default style, but it didn't fix anything.

Thanks for passing that along, one of the multitude of setting I've never stumbled upon.

Yeah, even though it seemed like (and turned out to be) a setting that didn't get reverted when applying default style; I did try sfc and DISM to no avail.

Well, it turns out this issue actually isn't completely fixed.  Most things are back to normal, but I was finding it harder to read a lot of things and thought maybe it was just my imagination at this point - but I found a screenshot that was taken before I tried WindowBlinds which proves that things have indeed not been fully reverted.  Screenshot comparison is attached.  You can see that colors are different, and more importantly the UI text was bigger and clearer before.  I'm seeing this same difference in most apps, and confirmed it using screenshots of Unity Editor as well.

Before:

After:

I've tried everything I can think of at this point, including all the steps in the guide DrJBHL posted.  This does make things significantly harder to read.  I should also say that before WindowBlinds I hadn't done any customization of Windows UI outside of setting colors in Personalize and installing Classic Start Menu (which only affects the start menu and taskbar).  LibreOffice and Unity take their UI settings from Windows and I haven't modified the UI of either.

Interesting.  Are you on Windows 11?  Because my Windows 10 installation has never look like that (rounded edges on windows).

Well I hadn't installed anything that affects Windows UI or attempted to modify the Windows UI in any way since that first screenshot was taken (nor have I updated LibreOffice since then).  I hadn't even done any Windows updates (I have it blocked by a firewall) until after I tried out WindowBlinds.  So I have no idea what else could possibly be causing this.

Maybe someone using Windows 10 could try to reproduce the issue?  I was looking for and found the skins I had downloaded/tried (for some reason they weren't cleaned up during uninstall, maybe WindowBlinds didn't uninstall properly?).  Here is the list:

Tested on Windows 10. Same result. I don't see it.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Strangely it is not the case on my Windows 10 system when revert back to default Windows 10 theme. The selected text turn back to blue from green after restarting explorer.exe and leaving the system for sometime. Not sure what happened within that time though.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Actually, I was so focused on fonts and icons that I didn't even notice this, but my highlight color is STILL green, even after upgrading Windows.  I had found a way previously to change it back via a registry edit... I guess I'll do that again if it's still bothering me.

No.  The text was not blurry; it was smaller, spacing was weird, and it just looked off.  There were also some icons and colors in apps that were still changed and hard to see.