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Mica Material, Dark Mode

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InstallAware automatically upgrades all your setups to take advantage of the latest Windows 11 user interface improvements. Here we're looking at a setup built using the Glass Theme on Windows 11 with Mica Material rendering effects applied by the operating system.

Here's the exact same theme running on Windows 11 22H2 with the new Acrylic mode for Mica. Far from a simple rehash of the old Acrylic theme for Windows 10, the effervescent Mica Acrylic is sparkling with grainy translucency!

Another neat effect introduced by Windows 11 22H2 is Untinted Mica. Notice how this is a heavier-handed approach than regular Mica, while still being very power efficient thanks to essentially being a heavily blurred wallpaper accent.

Here's the exact same theme running on Windows 11 under Dark Mode. Notice how the colors have automatically changed color to improve readability. The same dialog theme looks great on all downlevel platforms too, going back all the way to Windows XP! Let's take a ride.

This is Windows 10 in Light Mode. What we're seeing here is the precursor to Windows 11's Mica Material, namely Acrylic Material. While Acrylic is a more power hungry and battery draining effect, it looks very nice.

This is Windows 10 in Dark Mode. The main dialog is still rendering in Acrylic Material with the nice translucency and textured noise effects, but notice how the caption has changed tone and now looks dark.

Now we're looking at an earlier version of Windows 10, namely the October 2018 Update. We've lost translucency, but the textured noise pattern is still here.

This is Windows 10 October 2018 Update in Dark Mode. Notice how instead of a solid black, we've got a darker rendering of the system accent color.

Under all previous releases of Windows 10, there's no more noise texturing, but still a very pleasant translucent rendering.

Remember Windows 8.1? There's no texturing or translucency at all here.

How about Windows 8? Again, just a solid color.

Windows 7 features a rarified version of Glass with less light reflections compared to Windows Vista.

The ill-fated and much ridiculed Windows Vista features an over-the-top Glass effect.

Finally, trusty old Windows XP! Some fonts are missing, but everything still renders properly. Can you believe this is all with the same setup binary? Don't take our word for it - try it!

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