You need the update to WindowBlinds for the recent Windows update.

This is available as a preview on the forums or it should be available as a release version next week.

my release version of WindowBlinds11 is up-to-date. I also downloaded the "beta" and this issue still persists. It's still broken.

Unfortunately this still did not work, Taskbar is still the solid Windows 11 color.

While I appreciate the help that is too much work to try and find the issue, when it can be numerous things if Clean boot doesn't work. I will just have to wait until 3 or 4 updates from now and hope it's fixed. I shouldn't have to jump through trial and error as an end user who purchased a product that should work for windows 10/11. I understand things get corrupt or blocked but a purge of a program and all it's files that was working just fine 48 hours ago and I haven't changed anything on my end doesn't work after all that, I don't really want to continue digging, at least not right at this moment. I might give it a try later but how this hasn't happened to anyone else on Windows 11 is intriguing, I don't use any other programs or apps that mess with the look and feel of windows, just WindowBlinds11. 

Thanks for the swift replies. If and when I do a Clean Boot, I'll post the outcome here.

Quoting basj,

reply 8

Wait, I just notice, don't you have Start11 installed in your system? Start11 need to have the taskbar and Startpanel be skin by Windowblinds. Below is what I get when I uninstalled Start11 from my system.



Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I did not have Start11. 

I just purchased it though. 

This works! Thanks for the help! Start11 and WB11 are BOTH needed for the themes to work properly.

Given that the start button is skinned it would make sense to just remove that feature from WindowBlinds if the taskbar isn't going to get skinned along with it.

Start 11 is required to skin the taskbar under windows 11. It's due to how Microsoft rebuilt the taskbar compared to windows 10. Start11 has stuff in it to reimplement some of the missing features required for windowblinds to skin. If you don't have it installed, you won't get a fully skinned taskbar. No way around it. Microsoft just keeps breaking things with each update.