Per Application, Skype, and Explorer having a transparent menu bar.

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Aftyer the new Win 10 update today, i cannot use the Minimize, maximize or close (the old problem where the bar is shifting off xxxxxxx km away from its original position), and i cannot find a way to Exclude Skype from getting skinned by Blinds.

Anyone got an idea how i can do this, since skypeApp.exe is not working, or atleast Blinds seams to not be able ignore the skinning of Skype that way.

Task Manager got 3 app running under skype.
\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.30.73.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c\SkypeBackgroundHost.exe
C:\Windows\System32\RuntimeBroker.exe
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.SkypeApp_14.30.73.0_x64__kzf8qxf38zg5c

Putting all 3 on exclude does nothing, Skype gets skinned anyway it seams.

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Explorer got a Transparent menu bar, where "Home", "Share", "View" is located, i have not been able to find out where to change this, is it a but, or just an option that is not yet in SkinStudio ?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

I have forwarded your problem to Stardock Support team for their assistance. Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates. We appreciate your feedback and patience.

 

Basj

Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Please try the purge and reinstall steps : https://forums.stardock.com/486023/windowblinds-support-faq#reinstalling

get the latest official WB version, which is currently at 10.65 from your account. Reinstall this version and reboot.

Retest it. If the problem still happen, please get screen snip/grab and post it here.

Thank you,

 

Basj,

Stardock Community Assistant

 

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Hey, i did a clean instasll.

The Default Themes you have i found that some do no longer have this problem, but those i list here still do.
The Captain (No Problems)
Modern (No Problems BUT)
Modern - with blur (Preset) (Got problems)
Echo (No Problems)
Decisive_Win10  (No Problems, but the win 7/8 dos)
Corporate (No Problems)

This is how it looks, as you can see the "box" where the menu is in, is transparent, i can see Blinds interface through the skin.
https://i.imgur.com/ZVjgsOh.png

Altho, i did see some of the default skins, have a blurry transparent "box", but im still unable to find where it is in the SkinStudio.
https://i.imgur.com/C9I7ca8.png

Made a little video, if 1 image say 1000 words, then a video will say well a lot more :)
As you may see the Them Captain for Win 7/8 i cannot even apply to the desktop, the Blind just simply refuses to apply it, also it dos not even show a preview right, but well, not the main problem for me tho :)



As the video was taken, i did have installed my theme i wanted to use, to see if it had changed, or i could find a solution, which i still have not, have tried to see what the difference between those that work and the other are, but simply have not found out yet. :/

But i have found a annoyance in the SkinStudio tho, when ever i do anything, the mouse cursor moves to the right of the screen :/
This makes it a lot harder to do anything, since i have to move the mouse to the middle every time i do anything.

This is with DARK colors in Windows (Settings > Personalization > Choose your default app mode > Dark)

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you for the feedback?

Quoting dudesicko70, reply 3

This is with DARK colors in Windows
End of dudesicko70's quote

Do you see the same issues in the 'Light' Windows theme?

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

No its only in dark windows theme i found out.

But the dark theme from windows, also makes the "box" where i can change to Extra large icons, list, details and so on dark, this was also not possible to change with WindowsBlinds (as i have seen so far that is, or i may not know how), and ofc a lot of other places also, so would like to stay in dark theme for windows.