How to make it so themes can't change taskbar

When using any theme it breaks my taskbar, start menu and start button. I know how to block start button/menu changes but not taskbar.

How can I make it so themes can't change my taskbar?

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Never mind window blinds ruined my windows install (on a vm) so hell nah I never am using this shit company's shit software

Reply #2 Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Do let us know if you change your mind and need our help.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #3 Top

Quoting ItsRizeALT, reply 1

Never mind window blinds ruined my windows install (on a vm) so hell nah I never am using this shit company's shit software
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Bit of an overreaction don't you think? If you'd take the time to explain the issue it could be a simple fix.

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You can mod a skin so it taskbar and all its element will look close to Windows, but you will need to provide those graphics element your self and change it in Skinstudios. Would suggest you to move to Curtains, it easier in there.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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Quoting ItsRizeALT, reply 1

Never mind window blinds ruined my windows install (on a vm) so hell nah I never am using this shit company's shit software
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1. You use old Window Blinds ?

2. You use some corrupted or old not compatible theme ?

3. You use StartIsBack ?

4. Window Blinds work only on RTM and Beta Windows 10. Windows 10 Dev and Windows 11 is unsupport.

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When using any theme it breaks my taskbar, start menu and start button. I know how to block start button/menu changes but not taskbar.

How can I make it so themes can't change my taskbar?
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change it first before it changes yours :grin:  

prepare a black square image 40x40 px, save it twice, 1 as png, 1 as bmp.

open skin in sks, go to startmenu & taskbar > taskbar > horizontal taskbar > background > click tab image > look at the skin image for taskbar, if it's a bmp, import your bmp to replace it, if it's a tga, import your png to replace it, then click apply.

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When using any theme it breaks my taskbar, start menu and start button.
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Typical symptoms from StartIsBack + WindowBlinds. Only Start10 and Open Shell works correct.