WinPaletter 1.0.8.0

New Features:
1. WinPaletter Store:
You can now apply themes from the Store either online or offline from local folder
You can also upload your themes
Read this to know more about WinPaletter Store
WinPaletter Store is redesigned from latest beta versions
2. Help (Wiki)
This will help you use WinPaletter, making it simpler than before
Visit it
Help buttons are added to most forms to redirect you to related wiki page
3. Sounds:
Now you can modify most Windows sounds events entries, including Windows Vista to 11 startup
4. Screen Saver:
You might not know it, it was an animated full-screen window to savepreserve CRT monitors in the past
You can select a file that you can get online or from an old Windows, its extension is .scr
You can find some screen savers in %windir%System32
5. Wallpaper:
Now you can select an image or a color to be set as your wallpaper, and you can also change its style
Wallpaper tone feature has been moved here to Wallpaper
6. WinPaletter application theme:
Now you can change the colors/style of WinPaletter itself, to make it consistent with a theme you design
You can prevent or block its actions by going to Settings > Appearance and uncheck (Make WinPaletter appearance is managed by the loaded theme ......)
7. Theme file (*.wpth) reading/writing mechanism is rewritten:
Now, theme file contents will be written as JSON that is better in coding, this new theme file format is valid for WinPaletter 1.0.7.7 and higher not lower
You can convert themes made by old versions of WinPaletter to make them compatible with new WinPaletter versions
New format can be compressed to save space especially for WinPaletter Store, to make loading themes from servers quick
New format can have an external theme resources pack file that contains images. sounds, screen savers,... that is loaded each time you load its theme. And this is useful for sharing themes especially through WinPaletter Store
External theme resources pack can be made by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon) and go to 'Theme resources pack' and check its choice
8. Theme file info:
New options are added in WinPaletter theme info, including info for Store that is useful for uploading themes, options related to external themes resources pack and theme creditslicenses
Edit these info by pressing edit button in main window (Pencil icon), open all tabs and then edit the info
9. Windows Effects new features:
Colors Filter (Accessibility feature)
Hide scrollbar in modern Windows 10/11 apps
Full Screen start menu for Windows 10
Enable Windows 7 taskbar volume mixer for Windows 10 only
10. Metrics and Fonts new features:
You can change Shell Icon and Shell Small Icon for Windows XP
In Miscellaneous, you can make the fonts "Single bit per pixel" to give your fonts the look of old versions of Windows
11. WinPaletter settings read/write mechanism is re-written
And this is to make it more organized (each section is in a separate key (folder)) and export/import mechanisms changed to be with JSON format. Open HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareWinPaletterSettings after opening WinPaletter to know the changed mechanism if you are curious

Improvements:
Color item info:

It was formely named nerd color info
There will be a dot inside color info rectangle to indicate that the choosen color is not as the default color
Color picker control is now condensed, the previous one was extremely big compared to its contents
New settings section:
Make color label more transparent
Use default Windows monospaced font instead of JetBrains Mono
Use classic color picker instead of WinPaletter's default one on pressing on a color palette item
Extensive reduction in memory (RAM) ussage:

Removed fonts lists in consolesterminals, being replaced by native Windows Fonts picker (to reduce large memory allocation while loading list of fonts)
Improvements in loading language file (less memory usage and quick application loading time)
Fix memory leak on palette extraction from image
Improvements in loading wallpaper thumbnail, with fixing its bug
Updated JetbrainMono font to v2.304

Patching imageres.dll is blocked by defaults in settings, read this for more info

Save theme confirmation dialog redesigned, with new applying options (first theme and default Windows)

Bug reporting (Exceptions errors handling) improvements

Now WinPaletter will always start elevated (start as administrator) to make applying themes quicker as much as possible, and to avoid patching imageres.dll error (on changing Windows startup sound)

Drag and drop preview is removed (as this feature is not supported in any Windows application started as administrator)

Language items/texts of What's new labels will be neither loaded nor exported in/from it to avoid confusion between newly added labels' texts and old language translation

Embedded assemblies (references) are now compressed (to try to make WinPaletter with a small file size as much as possible)

Bugs fixes:
OS detection method changed to avoid bug
Application startup crash
Fix no wallpaper preview with wallpaper sideshow or windows spotlight is enabled
WinPaletter update error
Fix wrong preview of color on Windows 11/10 taskbar
Fix wallpaper preview is not synchronized in Windows XP
Fix application crash on starting WinPaletter with classic theme enabled
Windows Terminal:
Fixed edit button sets wrong text on pressing cancel
Fix error occuring during loading Windows Terminal preferences that inhibits the application from opening
Fix bug of Windows 8.1 Start screen black rectangles if designing theme from another version of Windows (not 8.1)
Fix Windows 7 and 8.1 logonUI/lock screen applying error
Fix applying fonts size trouble with high DPI
Metrics and fonts form error
Fix error on pressing 'Logoff' button on main form
Fix theme apply error on applying Windows Effects
Windows switcher crash
Fix bug of dark/light mode loading in 'Language add snippet' form UI
Spelling correction