jwhite2170

Join Date 03/2010

Transparent line under explorer ribbon

Hello,

All of my skins have this weird transparent line under the explorer ribbon. I have tried uninstalling windowblinds and reinstalling and it is still there. I have tried many different skins and its always there. Any ideas what is causing this? Below is a screenshot using Diamond skin. Here is the weird thing though...when I went to take a screenshot, I am in Windows 11 by the way, when the screen dims to allow me to take my snip of the screen the transparent line goes away...? I had to get the below by taking a picture with my phone of my monitor and emailing it to myself.

Thanks.

John

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Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need to know more on your system.

Windows 11full version and OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe.
Windowblinds full version number.
Look like your Explorer is having some minor changes done to it. Do you have any other application install that change how your Windows Explorer work?

Here is what I get when I use Diamond on my system.

The frame under your addressbar and search bar is darker, while on mine it should look almost same color as the Windows frame color.
The extend arrow lost its button on your screenshot.

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Basj,
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Thank you for the reply.

Ok, here you go.

Here is windowblinds info-

The only OS customization i have is Windowblinds, Start11 and Iconpackager.

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Please try purge and reinstall steps as mention here : [Link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account page. Reboot after the purge. Reinstall and reboot again after the installation. Retest and report back here.

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Basj,
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Thanks,

Did that and the line is gone on "some" of the themes. Like Diamond looks like this now.

However here is what Black and Grey looks like. So does The Raven. I believe Office was the same too.

So right now I don't see any rhyme or reason why some look right and others not so much....let me know what you think or ideas you have....frustrating.

Thank you.

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Please try Clean boot as mentioned here: https://support.stardock.com/space/SHC/1346830395/WindowBlinds+Clean+Boot. This will help to identify if there is other application that might causing the issue on your system. Do note Clean boot need to be done with extra care, follow the steps closely. Try it and report back.

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Basj,
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Ok, I did that and when I ran the batch file I got the below message. So I ran services.msc and started the Windowblinds service manually. Once running I opened Windowblinds and applied my theme. Same transparent line was present. I tried another theme and same thing.

John

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Also, not sure if it means anything or not but I just noticed its on dialog boxes too....see below.

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Do know that some skin such as Black and Grey was last updated back in 2003. I don't think these skin still fully compatible with current Windows OS. As a test, please test with current latest skin such as Criminal by LightStar or any new skins that released recently.

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Basj,
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