WindowBlinds 10 not skinning the taskbar completely

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Hi,

 

I have windowblinds 10 installed on the most recent version 10.586.494 1511. With any skin, the time and date and notification and speaker, internet, and laptop battery does not skin. The "show hidden icons" is in the skin. It's completely transparent but the icons and time itself. Those show in white. 

Any ideas on this? I uninstalled it 3 months ago because its annoying. But I like WindowBlinds. There has to be a way to cover this. Any experience would be appreciated thanks.

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Happens on the rare occasion to me, but all I do is drag the taskbar to the right side of the screen and then back to the bottom and it is fixed.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks LightStar, by the way I really admire your work on wincustomize.com. I'll try that now...no not working for me. I have a pic I'm going to try and post of what it looks like right now at this moment...

 

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Here is what it looks like now...Don't know if you can see it or not....

 

 

 

Taskbar

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting topdawg7, reply 3

Here is what it looks like now...Don't know if you can see it or not....

 

 

 

Taskbar
End of topdawg7's quote

Image not visible. Sorry can't help you as I never had that problem or heard of it before.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If you right click and open the image in a new tab in your browser, you can see it. It's on his OneDrive. I have no idea what the problem could be though, other than possibly video drivers.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Yeah sorry I forgot to mention it was on OneDrive...I thought the url would've rendered it. But glad you were able to see it LightStar. I don't get it either. Seems to change all the time as well. Some of it will be skinned and then after while its not. It may be the video drivers. Idk...

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Had this very same problem. Updated my Nvidia drivers and it went away

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yep same problem as me.Happens every day,every skin.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This has started happening to me. The start button and search box are skinned, then it's just transparent along until the systray ^ icon then transparent again then the 'show desktop' button is skinned again.

 

Any fixes?

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting NeilBalmer, reply 9

This has started happening to me. The start button and search box are skinned, then it's just transparent along until the systray ^ icon then transparent again then the 'show desktop' button is skinned again.

 

Any fixes?
End of NeilBalmer's quote

Do you use Start10 as well?

Also how many computer monitors do you have?

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I don't have start 10 installed, although I did have the demo for a [very] short time. Single monitor, here is a quick screenshot of my desktop...

desktop showing taskbar error

 

The skin is currently "The Captain" by danioc, but it happens with all skins.

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting NeilBalmer, reply 11

I don't have start 10 installed, although I did have the demo for a [very] short time. Single monitor, here is a quick screenshot of my desktop...

Reduced 31%
desktop showing taskbar error
Original 1920 x 1080



 

The skin is currently "The Captain" by danioc, but it happens with all skins.

End of NeilBalmer's quote

What are you using to alter how your taskbar buttons appear? (as they seem to be positioning themselves in the middle of the bar)

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Oh, that's objectdock, I'm using a couple of explorer hacks to have the taskbar always on bottom (doesn't ALWAYS work, but most of the time it does) and to hide the taskbar icons.

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

This is totally a shambles,you messed around Taskbar then asking for help that WB didn't skinning properly?? :rolleyes:   

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It breaks regardless. Also, I do believe the OP is not using undocumented explorer options and is having the same issue. Which shows the issue is down to WB doing something wrong, not explorer.

The ONLY fix that I have found to work, is exiting WB and reloading.

 

 

For anyone interested, http://rammichael.com/7-taskbar-tweaker to 'always on bottom' the taskbar, and http://rammichael.com/winapiexec with the following command 'winapiexec.exe u@ShowWindow ( u@FindWindowExW ( u@FindWindowExW ( u@FindWindowExW ( u@FindWindowW Shell_TrayWnd 0 ) 0 ReBarWindow32 0 ) 0 MSTaskSwWClass' to hide the applications form the taskbar.

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

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