Vanishing windows!

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I just purchased WindowFX, and while I really like most of the animations I seem to have uncovered a bug.

I had initially enabled some of the Window Management features, and when I was dragging the Outlook window towards the lower left of my screen the window suddenly vanished. I then could not get the Outlook window to appear, by clicking or any available right click options in the taskbar, or even by closing and opening Outlook again! Outlook would appear in the taskbar like it was running, but I could not see the Outlook window at all. The window was somehow being hidden or out of the screen's view.

I then tried a reboot, and still Outlook would not display its window. After a moment of panic the only way I eventually got Outlook to function again was to do a system restore. Now Outlook is working fine again (whew!) and I've disabled all of the Window Management features in WindowFX, since if I had to guess that is the likely functionality that caused the problem. I've been running fine for a while now. Has anyone else experienced a disappearing window like this with WindowFX?

btw, if it matters I'm running Windows 7, 64 bit version.

 

Thanks in advance for your support!

- Bill

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Can't anyone respond to this? Please... I thought that Stardock would want to know about potential problems in their current software products being sold.

 

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

What you describe doesn't sound like a feature of WFX.

I'd suggested re-enabling the settings you like and if it happens again let us know.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I can say that I am having the same problem.  Under Movement -> 'Fade Windows to semi transparent when moving and sizing them'.  And then move the window rapidly, all windows except the one I am moving will randomly mimimize and maximize.  If I disable this feature, no problems.

Second issue, when I goto 'Animations -> Movement -> Enable window dragging animations', my Nvidia GT8600 Geforce 311 drivers crash like all the time.  It's bad mojo.  Needs a patch.  I'll send a note to support.

TheWitness

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Then, I find that that Windows7 has a feature called 'Windows Wiggle' under Aero features.  Nasty.  Still getting the driver crash though.