Task bar white border with windowblinds

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Hello!

 

I have a problem with windowblinds.

 

Sometimes when I start my computer and log on to my user the taskbar is surrounded by a white border, I've tested multiple themes but the result is the same, I've reinstalled WindowBlinds and the result is the same.

 

What I've detected is that if I restart Windows Explorer the border disappears (gets fixed) but a weird Explorer window appears, it can be closed but from the taskbar only.

 

Normal TaskBar:

Normal TaskBar

 

 

TaskBar with white border:

White border

 

Explorer's window after restarting (Can't be opened so it must be closed from the red X in the image):

explorer

 

 

Hope it's just a bug, ty!

 

 

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Windows 11 Professional 23H2 (22621.ni_release.220506-1250)

WindowBlinds 11.02 (017 x64 - Windows 11 Edition) - 64 bit OS

 

Window titlebar blur features are enabled on this operating system

 

        Wblind.dll                2023/03/22 08:40:48

        Wblind64.dll              2023/03/22 08:40:27

        Wbsrv.dll                2023/03/22 08:40:33

        WB11Config.exe            2023/03/22 08:40:50

        Wbload.dll                2023/03/22 08:41:38

        Screen10.exe              2023/03/22 08:40:45

windowblinds
20,867 views 11 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I doubt that is caused by Windowblinds. My guess would be that you have some other third party software installed to customize your start menu/taskbar/explorer.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Jan, reply 1

I doubt that is caused by Windowblinds. My guess would be that you have some other third party software installed to customize your start menu/taskbar/explorer.

I've installed in my computer Cursor FX, Start 11, Fences, Iconpackager and Windowblinds.

It is the first time im using Windowblinds in W11, this never happened to me without WindowBlinds but after installing it started to happen.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting erick_darc, reply 2

It is the first time im using Windowblinds in W11, this never happened to me without WindowBlinds but after installing it started to happen.
As I said, it looks like something is conflicting with Windowblinds. Do you have any other third party software installed (non-Stardock apps) to modify your system?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Jan, reply 3


Quoting erick_darc,
reply 2

It is the first time im using Windowblinds in W11, this never happened to me without WindowBlinds but after installing it started to happen.

As I said, it looks like something is conflicting with Windowblinds. Do you have any other third party software installed (non-Stardock apps) to modify your system?

 

Nope, Just stardock software.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please try purge and reinstall steps as mention here : [Link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account page. Reboot after the purge. Reinstall and reboot again after the installation. Retest and report back here.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting basj, reply 5

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Please try purge and reinstall steps as mention here : [Link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account page. Reboot after the purge. Reinstall and reboot again after the installation. Retest and report back here.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

 

I've purged WindowBlinds twice and problem still there.

 

You must know that this happens not all the time, sometimes after the log in everything is correct, sometimes not (Kind of 20% appears the problem).

Weird behaviour.

 

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Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting basj, reply 7

Next, please try Cleanboot: https://forums.stardock.com/486023/windowblinds-support-faq#cleanboot.

Note: please follow the steps carefully.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

 

 

Hello again,

 

I've experienced the same issue after configuring new profiles or new computer installation.

 

Kind of weird, happens like 10 or 20 % of logins.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

Is the issue happen on any WB theme?

Also on the new computer what application that is running also running on the first system?

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

One thing that comes to mind is out dated themes not updated to current.

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Dcrew57, reply 10

One thing that comes to mind is out dated themes not updated to current.

 

Thank you for that, I've tried new themes and still having the issue.

 

Idk if it is relevant, but I started playing with some customization with Iconpackager, after applying some icon themes the issue appeared, dunno if its something related to Iconpackager.

 

Will keep looking.

 

Best regards!