Check if your My Pics folder thumbnails look like there is an opaque screen on them after aplying this setting. Have to open and close the folder to see the glitch.

1. apply explorer backgrond in wb61 beta
2. open my pics folder with thumbnail view
2. looks like half the images have opaque screens on them blurring the images
3. set explorer background back to default
4. close and reopen My Pics folder. back to normal

WinXPPRO/SP2
latest WB6 beta version

Neil,


I have seen a couple of weird spots just pop up on my screen. I thought it was my lcd on this inspiron 600m but I think it's WB6 beta. I'm using the latest beta and I saw it happen with the previous beta but I couldn't capture a screen shot for you.


Now I have one here.
Check out the weird spot on my screen. Looks like where a button in an app was sitting. I had ZA open then closed it and the spot was there. A couple of seconds later it was gone. Last time it happened I had tome to get to my desktop, remove the wall, set the background to all white, and the spot remained for a bit.


That's all I have on this for now. Maybe someone else has seen this.

I already had this problem with previous versions of WindowBlinds + Windows Vista.

Neil,anyone?

I just installed the Catalyst 8.3 drivers released today and it breaks WB completely on x64, when i apply a skin I have to manually reboot my pc, boot into safe mode and uninstall Windowblinds. So far thats the only option, I get as far as the "Welcome" text after entering my password to login. It literally just sits there with my system completely idle.

Using the latest beta thru SDC, ATi HD3870 videocard, Dell 207WFP moniter. I've also submitted a support ticket..

EDIT: I have narrowed it down to the display drivers, WB just does not want to play along with them. I tried a full uninstall of the Display Drivers/Catalyst Control Center, and reinstalled everything aftwards. WB still causes my system to be hung. I then decided to boot up into Safe Mode and uninstall the display drivers (leaving the ccc still installed) and my OS booted up and ran fine.

Neil, this problem is gone with two latest builds.

I am using the latest beta and experiencing corruption in the skin areas. For example the config program when clicking on tabs parts of the window go black or text does not refresh or it grabs parts of the image underneath the app.

Also I have had instances where the Title bar will disappear, start menu flickers, generally what looks to be serious rendering issues

Also on the System Information page I checked both options at the bottom and that did not resolve. I have tried various skins including Stardock built ones.

This is an ACER laptop 2years old video driver version listed as 8.471.0.0 (Mobility)

OS: Windows XP SP2

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 50 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1600
(Plug and Play Monitor) 2 is attached to ATI MOBILITY RADEON X1600

Wblind.dll 2008/03/07 11:52:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/02/13 16:15:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/20 13:52:33
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Wbui.dll 2007/12/01 16:43:05
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe 2008/01/11 12:14:18

I've had an odd problem when using WindowBlinds, where progress bar status display is offset when it is intersected by the right edge of a window in front of it. That is, the window's intersections causes the part of the bar to its right to fill up with a bar display as if the windows edge were the left edge of the progress bar.

Is this some sort of intended feature whose setting I just can't find? I hope not, since it is glitchy and unintuitive. It only happens with skinning, so I presume that if the case this the setting would be in the WB settings, but it isn't that I've noticed so I've dismissed this possibility.

I am certain this has happened for every WB 6 release I've used, and I believe, but can't recall for certain, that it has happened in WB 5 as well. The current skin I'm using is Diamond (XP) on a Windows XP machine.

Hopefully, if this isn't unique to my system, investigating this can improve WB moving forward.

I do have pictures that would illustrate it, but I don't see an attachment function and it doesn't seem worth the effort of setting up some image hosting. I hope the description above is clear.

Odd problem started with 6.1 beta, that the default background colour for the desktop always kicks in, even though I've disabled it in favour of another one. I can see this happening as I boot up, that the colour I've picked gets replaced as WB loads.
This is on XP pro, sp2 with the current beta.

odd problem here. Its actually also described here:

https://forums.stardock.com/172916/page/1/#1686903

Taskbar is kind of slowing down - haven't seen that before and system is fast 1.7ghz and 2GB ram

And no way of getting it up again in the area where it shows buttons.

Could you please look into this, thanks

Ruben

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 51 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug und Play-Monitor) 1 is attached to Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family

Wblind.dll 2008/03/17 12:45:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/03/11 06:56:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/20 13:52:33
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Wbui.dll 2007/11/06 10:13:05
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe 2008/01/14 17:02:18

I just ran the update 6.09g.137 for WB6, showing in SDC and Impulse, through SDC. The result..wiped out WB6. I had to do a system restore to get it back. I unchecked pre-release on SDC but not Impulse,but wanted to try the beta anyway. Everything works now,but the update contained my missing explorer backgrounds. Those sure would be nice to have back.Please help. [Edit: just updated through Impulse, everything works,case closed]

Menus look like crap in FF3:

This may sound like a really dumb question, but how can I get access to the latest WB 6.1 build and SKS?

Impulse

Thanks for fixing that Firefox menus bug, Neil.

Here's another one for ya:

The left border of the location bar is white. Started on the FF3 build that was released on the 25th and is fine in Aero.

In a preemptive effort here are my WB6 info stats cause I know someone will ask.

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 55 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
(Plug and Play Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

Wblind.dll 2008/05/06 15:25:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/04/29 21:02:32
Wbload.exe 2008/04/28 11:35:14
Wbhelp.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:07
Wbui.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:05
Tray.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:21
Screen.exe 2008/04/28 11:35:18


I am running XP and basically what happens is if you right click in the Title bar the title bar disappears for a few seconds and then reappears with no access to the standard right click in the title bar menu. I have stuff setup now for per pixel skinning so that everything that can be made transparent is. I also have a pink titlebar when I move around the WB configuration box. Any help Would be great, as usual.

What skin? (or all)
And in the WB config, what is teh setting for right clcking on the title bar? (Settings | Override Default Settings | Titlebar settings)

All skins and as a correction it is the menu bar down at the bottom if I do it twice in a row it goes to the active desktop recovery white screen

I looked at task manager while duplicating this right click in the start bar and it actually kills the explorer.ex process and restarts it.

511b: Do you have nvidia nview running?

If so can you try disabling it please.

I disabled nview and now it works fine do you have any idea as to what in nview is causing the problem? or is it just nview in general

If I enable the thumbnails view in explorer and I apply an explorer background in XP, there is always one or two thumbnails that seem to be behind the background image. See the screen shot. This also happens to folders when in thumbnail view. Has anyone experienced this or found a way to prevent that from happening?



The Zbthumbnail.info file is from my canon camera's picture browser, I deleted it and it made no difference. That file is only present in folders containing pictures I uploaded from my camera, and this problem seems to happen randomly in other places as well. So I do not think that's the cause.

Isn't WindowBlinds 6.1 released? If so, maybe it is time to unstick and close this thread.

Birger

Do you have Picasa installed? I think it might be doing something funky. I get the same thing on mine.
It's not that the thumbnail it's hiding behind the background, as much as that it's being made somewhat transparent by the system. Usually this is the system's way of letting you know that the file is marked as hidden when you have View hidden files enabled in Explorer.

I'm still not 100% sure on what causes this but I'm Picasa is my prime suspect.

Thanks Chet, I'll check that out.