User Icon & User Name Not Displaying Properly

Vista Start Menu Help Needed

https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=4334&libid=1
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I'm hoping some experienced use can help.  I am currently using windowblinds 6.4 with Vista.  When I install some Windowblinds visial styles, the user icon and user name are not displaying as they do in the screenshots of the style.  One example is Treetog's "Antares" - https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?skinid=4334&libid=1.  In the image, the user name is displayed in the dark area at the top of the start menu.  In my screenshot, my name (Tony) is still on the right hand side of the start menu and that dark area is empty.

 

My Start Menu

 

Also, my user icon on the upper left of the start menu is the wrong size and has a square box around it.  This seems to happen with several themes.  Regardless of the user icon image I choose, it is always surrounded by a box and is too large so that it doesn't match the screenshot supplied with the visual theme I download.

Any help will be sincerely appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's an old skin

it's not matching cuz Antares wasn't made for vista

it also wasn't made for WB6

 

but if you had xp.. it was fine on WB4, WB5 & WB6... but appears to be getting glitchy on WB7

 

 

skins made for WB6 and/or Vista got icons under the screenshot

 

like this one: Steampunk

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks very much for the help.  I thought that might be the case but couldn't find the information anywhere to confirm it.  So, is there any way to easily modify these to work with Vista?  I don't have Skinstudio but if I buy it, is this a simple fix?

Thanks again!

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Skinstudio is free, but there is also a pro version that you can get with WB

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

is this a simple fix?
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for some it is...

 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting voidcore, reply 3
Skinstudio is free, but there is also a pro version that you can get with WB
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and the pro give more options

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Its two sets of XY margins basically.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

I downloaded the free version of Skinstudio.  Could someone point me to the exact tab for changing the user icon location and give me a brief explanation as to how to move where the user name is displayed?

Thanks!

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Can someone please direct me to detailed instructions on how to move and size the user icon and user name?

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

here's part of it: https://forums.wincustomize.com/343847

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have that skin made for Vista and did that with Skin Studio. Looks really nice...

But I'm stuck on using Windows 7 now. Got to get used to doing Win7 now

If I remeber correctly I did a lot of changes to those images to get it to where it looked good.

Good Luck...

Oh and since I did not make the skin I can not share my changes. But you can do your own and it can be done.

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Can someone please direct me to detailed instructions on how to move and size the user icon and user name?
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Just change the XY settings for each section \ element. There are no detailed parts.

 

But you can do your own and it can be done.
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yep