Very large "plain" buttons take up titlebar, prevent narrow windows.

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I have WindowBlinds 7.2 (build 95 x86) running on Win XP Pro.  I recently noticed that I cannot make a window any narrower than a certain size.  On this monitor, which is 1920 pixels wide, the minimum window width is about 860 pixels.  I first noticed this when I was using WordPad to display lists of items on-screen and wanted the WordPad window to be narrow. 

When I close out of windowblinds and view the window in Classic, I see very wide versions of the the maximize, minimize, and close buttons that take up most of the taskbar.  I had never seen these versions of those buttons in Classic before and I think I have just noticed this for the past few months.  These are what are apparently preventing me from making the windows narrow.

The only way to stop this behavior is to go to Appearance in Display Properties, select Windows XP style, and then load a windowblinds skin.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Please do an About Windowblinds and copy your information to the clipboard and post it here, it will help support.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

OK

 

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.2 (build 95 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.

(BenQ E2400HD (Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Wblind.dll         2010/11/29 13:40:20
Wbsrv.dll         2010/04/01 10:44:56
SevenConfig.exe         2010/11/29 10:40:27
Wbload.exe         2010/09/07 16:02:35
Wbhelp.dll         2010/09/07 16:02:34
Wbui.dll         2009/10/07 12:35:05
Tray.dll              2009/10/21 06:13:19
Screen.exe         2010/06/07 11:10:43

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

update on this-- when I first invoke Firefox (4.0b13pre) I get no title bar, and then when I click on it, I get the bar with the big plain buttons, and then if I minimize and maximize it, I get the bar back with the skinned buttons. I sent the about windows for my desktoop, my laptop (where I notice the problems) has the following about windows info:

 

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.2 (build 95 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.

(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M

Wblind.dll         2010/11/29 13:40:20
Wbsrv.dll         2010/02/03 13:11:56
SevenConfig.exe         2010/11/29 10:40:27
Wbload.exe         2010/11/29 13:40:35
Wbhelp.dll         2010/11/29 13:40:34
Wbui.dll         2009/10/07 12:35:05
Tray.dll              2009/10/21 06:13:19
Screen.exe         2010/06/07 11:10:43

The laptop is a Lenovo Y550P.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

some programs just don't skin (adobe reader seems to be one), some programs when changing a windowblind lose focus and do weird things, including large classic type buttons. I'll go out on a limb and say that since the last WB update these things have been happening on occasion.

a trouble ticket was initiated on these issues and even though SD closed out the trouble ticket, there have been no updates to the program to correct these minor annoyances.