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No matter which Windowblinds skin I use (with Windows XP), the slide to the right of Firefox 4 vanishes. When I remove Windowblinds, it reappears again, so the problem seems to be one of compatibility.
I had this problem with the same setup (WinXP and Windowblinds 7.x). I was able to eventually diagnose it to the Firefox option "Use hardware acceleration when available" which can be found under Tools>Options>Advanced. When I disabled this option I no longer had the problem. Conversely, re-enabling it caused the problem to return. There must be some kind of incompatibility within the hardware acceleration calls made by firefox to the display drivers. I hope you find this reply helpful and that it resolves your problem.
I too was experiencing a similar odd behavior with FF 4.0+ and WindowBlinds 7.2 on WinXP Pro. I initially tried the chosen solution (from jflorez) of disabling Firefox's "Use hardware acceleration when available" option, but this only seemed to work correctly for me half of the time. At this point, I began taking a closer look at WindowBlinds' options in attempts to fix the incompatibility, and fortunately, managed to find a solution.
As Firefox has it own skins (themes), WindowBlinds does not need to touch it at all; effectively, it should simply ignore the Firefox application altogether. This can be done by opening WindowBlinds and clicking the Settings button (near the top of the WindowBlinds 7 Configuration window). In the Settings window, select the Per application tab and click the Add... button. Browse to the X:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\ directory and choose the firefox.exe ejecutable and click OK. In the Per application settings window under Total exclusion, check the "Ignore this application and do not skin it" option and click OK.
Lastly, if Firefox is currently running, it will need to be restarted for the changes to take effect. In short, I sincerely hope this solution helps other Firefox users who are experiencing this problem.
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Today I've tried to edit some windowblinds skins by extracting them and edit the textures. I've made a few changes I wanted to and repacked the files as a ".wba". Then I opened it with windowblinds but it appeared as the same as before Can someone help? I don't know what I did wrong
You can change a lot without going into Skinstudio at all. First you have to go into the skin itself. On win7: My Computer, C drive, Users, Public, Public Documents, Stardock, Windowblinds. Open the skin you want to fiddle with. There will be all the parts to the skin there. You'll need a graphics program that opens TGA files and Bitmap files. What I do is make a folder in My Documents and name it for the skin I am playing with. I copy the part of the skin that I am changing into that folder so I always have the original in case things go bad. Whatever I change I put into the original folder for the skin. When you want to see how the change looks you have to re apply the skin.
Finally it reacts to the changes I make in the texture files. But no the best... The colors change as I want them to, but a lot of the textures became invisible. What program do you use to edit the tga files correctly? (I used Pain.net)
When installed the task bar is very laggy, meaning that the mouse cursor takes about 1 second to hove over an item, for example in the tray area. When Start11 is uninstalled, task bar works with normal speed.
Edit: Win+X is working and opens the windows button right click menu. I also have windowblinds installed maybe that one is faulty, I also don't have a tray icon from windowblinds though the option is enabled in the windowblinds settings. this seems to have appeared with one of the latest windows 11 updates.
i have installed some more advanced system programs, but all basic needs, drivers etc, also for example "advanced systemcare" and "rainmeter" and is the last one is a UI customization i could try to uninstall that maybe.
This is really annoying and when i reinstalled Windows 11, it was all good with normal speed and no explorer lag at all. but at some point , when installing the mentioned system programs and drivers, the described starts to happen.
I found out that the problem with the laggy tray icons only appears when "enhanced taskbar" is enabled in the Start11 Settings. The Start Menu and the taskbar is working without any lag in both modes. But the tray as well as the whole system / explorer is laggy when that option is enabled.
In the end it was WindowBlinds what caused the tray icons to be lagging. With the "Default Theme" everything is at full speed, but when switching to another theme the tray icon mouseover lag starts. When switching back to default theme, its again at full speed. I experimented with some options in Windowblinds but without any success.
Great, thanks. Please try purge and reinstall steps for Windowblinds 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.
WindowBlinds is a computer program that allows users to skin the Windows graphical user interface. It has been developed by Stardock since 1998, and is the most popular component of their flagship software suite, Object Desktop. It is also available separately, and as an ActiveX/COM component called DirectSkin. Introduced in its sixth version, it supports alpha blending effects similar to the compositing of Windows Vista, but on Windows XP.
WindowBlinds has been downloaded over 10 million times[1][2] and was voted "Best Vertical Market Program or Utility" in the 2006 Shareware Industry Awards Foundation People's Choice Awards.[3] As of November 2009 there were 4448 WindowBlinds skins available at WinCustomize, with an average of nine being added per week; another popular repository is deviantART.
The advantages of UIS1+ are performance (Stardock has claimed that a UIS1+ version of the Windows XP "Luna" visual style is twice as fast as the original in repaint and resizing) and compatibility. Most msstyles can be converted to a UIS1+ skin.
The Advanced skin format is provided for when a skin design cannot fit into the above restrictions. Typically these skins may have wider borders in some places, or none at all. They may also feature titlebar background animation, or the use of scripting features.
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