This is not a bug.

When disabled WindowFX is not impacting any applications.

 Consider this more of a request than an actual bug.

I like to keep running processes and services in check. It would be nice if "Disabled"  meant completely unloaded.

Same with Firefox...it won't restore from minimized state. And as a side note, ever since installing WinFX, it takes 21 seconds from the time I right click the desktop to the time I get a context menu.

I agree with reply 22.

If that were true then disabling would have solved the issue, and yes I had restarted outlook after disabling it.

When the app is disabled the app is disabled.  It cannot have any impact on any applications opened after it was disabled.

That sounds unexpected.  WindowFX doesn't do anything with that menu.  Does this continue if you disable the right click menu features in WindowFX?

Just telling you what it did. Disabling the app did NOT solve the problem. Uninstallation solved the problem.

Guess I'll just leave it uninstalled so I have a fully functional PC.

Well this is beta software so if you are not comfortable with beta software when I would always advise only using the final release versions.

However I must repeat what I said earlier.  If the application is disabled (as in you open the app up the the enable button is enabled and the disable button is disabled) then the application is having no impact on other processes.  The processes remaining are simply there to avoid issues caused by the Vista / 7 UAC.

Unfortunately that would require the process to elevate itself in order to disable the processes and likewise elevate to turn itself on.  Generally speaking this isn't exactly user friendly and the processes have been designed to use as little memory as possible.  Throw in the possibility of multiple users who may or may not want the app and you end up needing at least one process at all times - the service.

Thats not to say we will not look into the possibility of it shutting down one of the additional processes if it proves viable without producing a poor user experience.

It isnt a matter of comfort. It's a matter of me telling you the issues I experienced with the Beta software, what was required to fix it, and then being told that disabling the app solves the problem. It did NOT solve the problem this time. I'll install again and see if the same occurs.

If anyone does have problems with a window not showing up correctly when disable all the animation settings for now.  We have had reports of a small issue with those not being happy with a few select applications and the next beta should hopefully address those.

Also known is flicking a window to another screen may not send it far enough (or too far) if you have very different width monitors.  This has been resolved internally.

Ok, I re-installed. This time it did work as you said it would. The first time it did NOT.

Turning off animations also fixes the issue. Hopefully that will be fixed as it is one of the prime cool features of FX.

Thank you for your excellent explanation Neil.  *If it prevents people with UAC running from having problems I can live with it. (I can always blame MS)

*Yet another reason why I highly dislike UAC

Overall, I like the look of the UI and what I've tried so far looks good. 

If you do want to stop it you can manually stop the Stardock WindowFX service and next time you reboot you will not have any processes for WindowFX.  To turn it back on you would need to restart the service.

It may be Outlook didn't actually properly close (due to being confused with an invisible window) and so when you reopened it you just got the same process.  Outlook does like to reuse windows and processes.

This is just beta 1 so it was expected there may be some rough edges with animations.  The plan is to take the feedback on the issues with them and then resolve the problem (I suspect it is a single issue that impacts apps which are doing something in a specific way) and add in a few more options too including a random option.

It would be very useful to know which of the animation types (Open / close / min / restore) is causing the problem.  Each of the individual animations should be identical, so this is just the overall class of animation controlled by the checkboxes thats important.

The photoshop thing goes to normal if I disable WinFX.

The right click thing has remained even after uninstalling WinFX. But I do know it started after installing WinFX.

WOW - what a cool surprise for this Halloween weekend!

I have installed (had to manually enter email and code uggg) , but after that all seems VERY good so far.

LOVE the new fade out background windws feature. Looking forward to more open/close animations too.

Thanks!!!!

Are you sure you didn't update something else around the same time?  Say intel video drivers (known for making right click menu slow)

WindowFX is very self contained and only has files in two folders and only writes to its own registry keys.  Once uninstalled there should be nothing left to cause any problems.

Using Windows 7 Pro 64bit, so far FX4 Beta is working well. I love the inactive window feature!