Favorites... yep, it's anoying.

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OK, I have heard all the "Favorites is a toolbar and we can't skin it" things from Neil and everyone, but it's just a major drawback of WB5.  With skins like Dreamland that have full transparency it makes IE's Favorites menu look like crap!  I'm sure if you really put your heads together you can find a way to skin that menu as well.  It's just nasty to have a production build of one of your products that lacks features that a previous version of WB had.  This goes right in line with the console window skinning thing.  I mean, come on!


Also, on a side note, WB5 009 build seems to reapply the skin on Windows startup each time.  This takes extra time and slows bootup to the desktop time.  Might want to change that arround or optimize it.  This perticular problem causes issues if you use the XBOX skin and don't want the START bar to be double-hight.  If you shrink it to single-hight (normal default for all other skins) and lock the toolbar it stays that way until a restart... why, because WB5 reapplies the skin which is set to double-hight by default.  This is stupid... find a fix please.... and don't give me that (it's a skin issue).  If WB5 wouldn't reapply the skin on startup (what is this, StyleXP) this wouldn't be an issue.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

WB5 009 build seems to reapply the skin on Windows startup each time

If this is correct, it is probably due to the need to go to an ".ini" file for settings, due to some users having ODBC issues.

If everyone (including manufactured OEM's) installed the OS with the default settings, this would probably not be an issue - but Stardock has decided to go with the ".ini" path to fix issues with the ODBC path.

I may be off base here, so perhaps Neil would clarify after holiday break......

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why would you install only part of an operating system? Boggles me.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Favorites does get skinned but since it is not a menu, per pixel, transparency, is not applied on it. This is a Windows limitation not WB.
Taskbar size issue; in WB config what setting do you have set in user overrides, small, large or skin decides. If it is changing as you say I would think it is set to skin decides, set it to small.
WB reapplies skin at startup; do you mean that WB config opens and applies skin, or do you see Luna first then the skin you have selected.
Open WB config, select system info, copy and paste it here.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

WB reapplies skin at startup; do you mean that WB config opens and applies skin, or do you see Luna first then the skin you have selected.


I state this because if I reset the taskbar size to small on reboot (yes, you were right I have it set to default of skin chooses size) it goes back to large (default for xbox skin).  If I manually set it to small and then open WB and reapply the skin it goes back to large.  This to me (pure logical speculation here) implies that WB reapplies the skin on startup of Windows, otherwise it would have kept my small taskbar setting.  Anyway, thanks for the input on the other things.