Odd quirk with Windowblinds on Windows 10

I've been using WindowBlinds on Windows 10 for awhile now, on two other machines.  The first machine was a Surface laptop, the second was a desktop machine which had been upgraded from Windows 7 Pro previously.  Neither of them exhibited the issue that I'm seeing here...

Details on my system:
WindowsBlinds 10.84 (059 - Windows 10 Edition)
Windows 10 Build 19042

A couple of days ago, I replaced motherboard/cpu/memory/cpu_cooler on my desktop machine, and did a clean install of Windows 10.
I then installed WindowBlinds (downloading the installer directly from Stardock, rather than using an old copy).  I activated my copy, then deleted the WB activation for the old motherboard.  Then proceeded to re-install all my themes, which went fine.

The quirk I'm experiencing is this: two programs that I use regularly, are handling minimize wrong...
In fact, when I click minimize, they minimize to the system tray instead of just minimizing to the taskbar.  Then, if I click the icon on the taskbar, instead of restoring the current app, Windows launches a new copy of the program!!

If I tell WindowBlinds "Ignore this application and do not skin it", that solves the problem and they work fine... but I *really* don't want to do that!!  Has anyone seen anything like this before?  Any idea how I can resolve it??

The two programs which are doing this 'minimize to system tray' trick are CubicExplorer and ConsoleZ...

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Update: Actually, I've just realized that *many* programs are doing this, including Mozilla Thunderbird, Pale Moon browser, and a couple of others...  this is not good...

Reply #2 Top

Have you perhaps enabled the setting in WindowBlinds to minimize to the tray?

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O...M...G... :(O  
I didn't even know that setting existed!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
How in the hells did that get set ?!?!
Thank you... nevermind...