Taskbar icons oversized

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I was very happy when i saw that WB finally was running on my Vista64. But the icons on the taskbar notification area are oversized and choppy looking.
What is causing this problem?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
all skins or some skins?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
From Neil Banfield on another thread
If a skin sets a very large titlebar height, your system tray icons will also resize. This is true on XP and 64 bit Vista (though not 32 bit Vista)
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have also found that the reverse is true, if the titlebar height is short, the quicklaunch & system tray icons will reduce in size
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
or if the taskbar fonts are too big
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I used the same skins in Vista 32 bit and everything was fine. Itæs only affecting 64bit Vista.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yep, covered in quote from Neil, it is not an issue running 32 bit Vista.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have also found that the reverse is true, if the titlebar height is short, the quicklaunch & system tray icons will reduce in size


Yep, I have had that also Rob, had a skin with a height of like 8 or so, could hardly see tray and quick launch icons.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Here's a dumb question... Does anyone know why the two are related?

- forgive my ignorance is if this is an easy question, I'm still a bit of noob when it comes to using skinstudio, why would titlebar height be related to taskbar quicklaunch & system tray icon size? I just don't see the connection. I know that they are somehow related as we shown the cause/effect above but I'm just curious as to why, not really a complaint just a question.


While we're at (I don't mean to hijack this thread), does anyone know anything about adding a background image to the text displayed on the taskbar. I can add an image and it stretches with the titlebar text but the left & right sides of the image get blurred due to the stretching, I've seen some blinds that make use of a bkgrnd image behind the titlebar text that somehow have gotten around this problem but I'm stumped as to how they achieve this effect. Playing around with the margins doesn't seem to help, stretching it in skinstudio makes it appear fine but when actually applied it doesn't look as nice. Does this only work with per-pixel windowframes?