White line above bottom taskbar

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Hi, I have a random problem that occurs sometimes, more often than not. A white line appears above the bottom windows task bar on windows 10 and I have to reapply the style to get rid of it. This can happen with any style, all of which are made for Windows 10. It usually happens after the PC starts but not until I press the start button on the task bar or open an app from the taskbar and like I said is random, sometimes OK others not. Once I get passed pressing any button on the task bar and its ok it, it will be fine until I restart machine. Uninstalled Windowblinds, purged it, reinstalled it, still no joy on latest update as well. Any help would be much appreciated, thank you.

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need more information.

1) Windows 10 version. Please use Winver.exe for full version numbers.

2) Windowblinds version.

3) Is the issue happen on any Style or just curtain style?

4) And please post a video or a picture of the issue so that we can understand it better.

Thanks

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi,

Win Version 1909

Windowblinds Version 1084

Any Styles

Will forward a picture when it happens again... but it is a continuous white line across the length of the taskbar.

Thank you.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Looks like you may be having a DWM issue from either having or not having hardware acceleration enabled or disabled.

Dwm.exe is a Microsoft Windows system file and it is responsible for the Desktop Window Manage, Desktop Window manager is the window manager in Windows OS that enabled the use of hardware acceleration to render the graphical user interface of Windows.
 
Try switching your current Hardware Acceleration setting to either enabled or disabled, based on what it's setting is now, and reboot.
 
Hope this helps. Stay safe.
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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Thank you, your answer solved the problem, although finding how to switch off hardware acceleration in Win 10 ver1909 was a nightmare to find. This is how I did it.

In: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics]

create: DWORD 

name: DisableHWAcceleration

value: 1

Restart Windows!

 
 
Thanks again.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Glad to help! :-)