Start menu moves a couple of inches to the right when testing in Vista
Sunday, July 5, 2009 by Imzadi | Discussion: SkinStudio Help
I've sent a new skin I'm working on to several different people to test on Vista. In each instance the entire start menu moves about 2 inches over to the right, and the bottom is slightly behind the taskbar. Each one was on a laptop, and I don't know if that's the issue or not. Has anybody had this issue before? Is there something I can do as far as settings go in Skinstudio to fix this?
Oh and btw, I'm creating the skins on an XP machine.
Thanks!
Reply #2 Sunday, July 5, 2009 9:46 PM
They were testing it for me in Vista, since I don't have a Vista machine anymore. Both were using WB6.
I'm just curious as to what would cause this. On one computer I could see something odd happening, but the same thing on two different ones?
Reply #3 Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:14 PM
I agree. That's a tad bizarre. I think you need Xiandi, 2of3, AVMan or v's help....a skinner at any rate. You made it the same way as always?
Reply #4 Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:20 PM
Yep, start menu the same size as I have made them in the past. The only thing I can figure is that maybe there was a problem with installation or something. I'm baffled.
Reply #5 Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:26 PM
I dont have a laptop, but I do have Vista. I can at least see if it is doing it on a PC. You can send it to me if you like.
Reply #8 Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:49 PM
And here's what it's supposed to look like. This is on XP.
Reply #10 Monday, July 6, 2009 3:01 AM
Got it. The start menu is sitting just fine on my PC, so it's not a Vista problem.
Cool window frames, and a nice color scheme too. 
I'll be sending you and email shortly..
Reply #12 Monday, July 6, 2009 5:15 AM
The OS may have moved it if it felt it would not fit on the screen. I would check your part sizes and content margins.
Reply #13 Tuesday, July 7, 2009 2:34 AM
Hi Neil.
I made my parts the same size I always do, and content margins were the first thing I checked. Not sure what's up. It may just be a laptop problem. The widescreen seems to throw it off or something.
Reply #14 Tuesday, July 7, 2009 3:21 AM
you need to try negative bottom content margins for the places side...get rid of that wasted space and maybe the start menu will settle in.(for Vista sub)
Reply #15 Tuesday, July 7, 2009 4:12 PM
You mean to set the bottom painting margin at 0 on the Places image? I only had it set on 1
Reply #16 Tuesday, July 7, 2009 4:42 PM
Text margines.
-40 seems to work for me
Reply #18 Tuesday, July 7, 2009 9:00 PM
Its an odd little vista/WB bug that causes a large space to be left under the run command(if you have it)...like these other skinners said...its generally around -40.
Reply #19 Thursday, July 9, 2009 2:33 AM
Oh you're serious! LOL I thought you were kidding. Well heck, I already submitted the skin. 
Won't that throw the text off in XP then?
Nevermind...tried it and it didn't.
Thanks guys, who knew? Not me, obviously. 
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Reply #1 Sunday, July 5, 2009 9:42 PM
Hi Imzadi. More importantly, what were the OS's of the laptops and were they using WB6 or WB7beta? I have a Vista laptop if that would help?