Workaround the Object Bar Beta White Background problem

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After doing some experimentation, I found that the problem seems to be occuring in bars that start with auto-hide on. If you turn auto-hide off, then go to the menu editor and go to the skin tab, by changing the skin to something else and back, you can get your skin back. After that, you can turn auto-hide on again, and things should be ok for a bit. I have found that after a bit, the white background problem will come back. But i haven't figured out the exact trigger that causes it yet.

-Scott MacDonald
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Unfortunately that hasn't worked for me. Theme manger locks up when trying to change the skin and task manger is required to kill the process.

I have had a little success with docking the bar elsewhere but not consistently.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
However (I talk to myself a lot lately), choosing "do not dock to any edge" seems to skin my OB properly and it sticks! :
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I lied. It's the "do not restrict the size of this bar" option that allows the skin thing to work right (for me anyway)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
nope. after much experimenting I find dock/undock is the culprit. Every time I reboot, I need to do this to re-skin the bar.

Am I the only one with the "ghost" problem? That is, the bar slides down (top docked) from time-to-time but is only an image of the real dock. Mouse-over hides the dock and then the real one comes down. Gravity?