Taskbar display issues on WB11

Taskbar does not appear transparent and instead, displays a still image of the desktop background, just slightly blurred.

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Programs are not displayed under the taskbar. Only when I disable "force non acryllic blur", do programs become visible beneath the taskbar.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Quick update. Disabling "Lock Taskbar" on windows and resizing the taskbar with a window behind it, the blur "updates" but not continuously. 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Additionally, the same 'blur not updating' issue can occur with normal windows. Here, the desktop background is visible through a window. It seems that, for optimisation purposes, windowblinds only updates transparent aspects when moved about. 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

This is a bug in Windows 11 not WindowBlinds.

We do not do the blur ourselves, it is left to the OS to do and sometimes it forgets to repaint things.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting the, reply 4

To correct you, I am on windows 10 22h2.
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The issue is the same.  We do not do the blurring ourselves, not since Windows 2000 days.

Also note that recent Nvidia drivers have been known to break blur in the OS.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 5

Also note that recent Nvidia drivers have been known to break blur in the OS.
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I can confirm that, and it's been like that for a long time.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting the, reply 7

Downgrading my nvidia driver seems to have resolved the issue.
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If you are able to report the bug to Nvidia it would be helpful.  The more reports they get the better.