WB6 Black line above Taskbar in certain skins

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I installed WB6 last night (licensed) and noticed that there was a heavy (5 pixel?) black line now running across my sceen at the top edge of the Taskbar. I am currently using the Pantheon Suite and have uninstalled/reinstalled both it and WB6 to try and correct this. I have noticed that this does not happen on all skins but it is happening on some. Since Pantheon is a paid for suite I was wondering if this a a WB6 issue, a skin/suite issue and/or if there is any known fix that can be made locally to correct this. (I really am fond of the Pantheon skin. tried several others last night but nothing had all of the same features, etc. that keep me with this skin).

Regards - MichaelO - longtime SD customer.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Same problem here (WB6), it was ok using the pre release beta WB 5.9***, it appeared from WB6.***, same on latest beta.
Some skins have a black line, some a line the same image as desktop.


If I untick the auto-hide-taskbar....line disapears....if I change skin, then tick auto-hide-taskbar, line not reappearing, have to move mouse to a empty part of taskbar before it slides up though....seem to rember the same problem some time ago.

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.0 (build 36 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 6600

Wblind.dll 2007/10/08 13:04:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/10/04 17:58:43
Wbconfig.exe 2007/10/01 17:35:33
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Wbui.dll 2007/09/24 19:08:06
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe 2007/10/01 11:23:24
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Could either (or both) of you post a screenshot of the black line in action?

MALZZO_: What is the version/date of your video driver?

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Multiplicity - Control multiple PCs using one keyboard and mouse
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I will have to reinstall WB6 to do this. I reverted to WB5 last night out of frustration with WB6 due to issues other than the Black line. Problems with the Font properties changing irratically.
If screenshot not posted before this evening I will reinstall and grab a screenshot for you. Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards - MichaelO.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
Hi Mike....

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 driver 163.71 WHQL (Windows XP home)

First 2, desktop image above t/b
Third black line
Forth untick the auto-hide-taskbar, looks normal.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Mike,

Sorry I blew right passed the video driver question.

EVGA Nvidia 8800GTX with 163.71 WHQL driver as well.

Regards - MichaelO
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm having these translucency issues also.
Geforce 6100

Trying different drivers but so far all have done it...only reverting back to WB5 has worked so far.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
had to settle for an 80 series driver...anything later caused custom resolutions to pan and scan the desktop.

this problem only affects some skins(that used to work fine)and seems restricted to the taskbars,grabber.  
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
I have the same problem. When the skin is first applied it is fine. It alwasy occurs after any screen saver application. It appears to be a bug in the coding.
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
1)Updated Nvida driver 69.01 beta (its stable) 69.04 beta latest
2)Updated WB to 6.00[b].100 beta (noticed a beta update to 6.00[b].102 not tried it to test on an unmodified resizer .tga file)
3)Replaced the taskbar resizer .tga file in affected skins with a transparent one (I used "TaskBarSize.tga" from Stardock Leo skin) using Skinstudio 6.
3 is the problem .tga file, possibly not made in Photo Shop in some skins.