WindowBlinds 11.02 (Released 04/05/2023)

04/17/2023

• Released on Steam

04/05/2023

• Stardock release: 04/05/2023

• Steam release: TBD

• UI version: 11.02

• File version 11.0.2.1

03/20/2023

• Has some fixes for issues with the taskbar painting when on a tablet with Windows KB5022913

03/14/2023

• Tweaks how the address bar transparency is handled on Win11 in explorer and has a small fix for taskbar support for Windows update KB5022913

03/13/2023

• This has support for 22H2 Moment 2

• Fixes some issues with taskbar progress bars

• Fixes a repaint issue with VLC and XnViewMP

• Support for tabbed notepad

• Fix for painting issue with light glass area and tabbed frame section working right now when you do not define the maximized version (though you should)

***Reserved***

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After applying the 23H2 enablement package to Windows 11, the Windowblinds tray icon no longer appears in the tray.  In other words, the following Windowblinds feature no longer works:

"Show icon in the system tray for easy access to WindowBlinds settings"

Uninstalling/Reinstalling Windowblinds 11 causes the Windowblinds tray icon to appear for a few boots.  But then it disappears again.

I'm in the Release Preview update channel, but I don't see why that should make a difference.  Release Preview is an insider channel but not a true beta channel.

As a workaround, I created a shortcut to Windowblinds on the desktop and pinned it to the taskbar.  It works, but it's not the same as having a tray icon.

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22631.2361]

@r_pinkard: But does WB 11 still work on 23H2? I'm thinking of getting WB 11, but I'm also currently in Release Preview.

Windowblinds still works in 22631, but there is just no icon in the taskbar.  The workaround is to create a Windowblinds shortcut on the desktop and pin it to the taskbar.

I was on 22621.2361 and the Enablement Package (EP) changed that to 22631.2361.  So the build number was the same and the EP merely activated embedded features in the build and incremented the version from 22621 to 22631.  Uninstalling the EP rolls back the version to 22621 and completely reverses the problem of not having a Windowblinds 11 icon in the taskbar.

Perhaps on the next patch Tuesday (10/10/23), the problem will be fixed.

After installing the Windows 11 23H2 update my tray icons are much bigger than normal. Is this a known issue that is being fixed? Seems to always happen with a new Windows feature release version, and maybe other version updates as well.

The currently "general availability channel" build for Windows 11 (as of November, 2023) is 22631.2715.

I have good news and bad news about this build.

The good news is that Windows 11 is now painting the taskbar!

The bad news is that Windowblinds 11 still doesn't provide a tray icon.  This started with the release of 22631. The workaround for this is to create a Windowblinds icon on the desktop and then pin the icon to the taskbar.

The following graphic shows the taskbar being painted by the Vuitton style (which is a non-public experimental style), a Windowblinds 11 icon on the taskbar, and no Windowblinds 11 tray icon.  Personal info has been blocked by the white box.

Windowblinds 11 (WB11)  now paints the taskbar, but the WB11 tray icon is missing and Firefox and Edge title bars are not painted by WB11.  WB11 does not cause screen hanging on my system.

Hi.  I recently tried to upgrade from WindowBlinds 10 to 11.  I'm still on Windows 10 but it says that's still supported.  Although it installed fine none of the skins are actually applying.  I get the loading bar like a skin is going to load but once it completes the windows all still have the default theme.  As far as I can tell no errors are being generated.  I also have Start 11 and on Blinds 10 everything works fine but once Blinds 11 is installed a lot of the Start 11 functions stop working as well.  The WindowBlinds service is running although no icon appears on the taskbar.

I reinstalled WindowBlinds 10 and everything seems to be back to normal.

Winver:

I've done the purge instructions and it looks exactly the same.  I did get a bunch of crashes with wbload this time right after the install finished.  The crashes only happened right after the install and haven't reoccurred, even if I try to run wbload manually.  The behavior looks the same though, I can try to switch themes and I get the loading bar but nothing actually changes.  

This is what the event viewer shows:
Faulting application name: wbload.exe, version: 10.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x565c3c8e
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x2280
Faulting application start time: 0x01da24f19a6ce621
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\WindowBlinds\wbload.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 65ba28c0-9208-41ab-a21a-f9cde890ec88
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Faulting application name: wbload.exe, version: 10.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x565c3c8e
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000
Faulting process id: 0x28fc
Faulting application start time: 0x01da24f19a751b17
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\WindowBlinds\wbload.exe
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 9f75fb2a-b236-4696-b2b0-c12c3351422f
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

If Microsoft Windows 11 is updated, and Stardock Windowblinds 11 (WB11) features stop working, then who is responsible for changing Windowblinds to keep up with the changes to Windows 11?

Currently, the WB11 tray icon doesn't display, and WB doesn't paint Firefox or Edge title bars (on my Dell Precision 7530).  Is there a plan to fix this?