WindowBlinds 7.31 Beta Update
Thursday, March 22, 2012 by Island Dog | Discussion: WinCustomize News
A new beta update has been released today for WindowBlinds customers and Object Desktop subscribers. WindowBlinds is the tool you need to change the complete look and feel of the Windows desktop.
New in 7.31 beta update:
- Adds support for transparent scrollbars on Windows 7 Explorer windows
- Updates for start button and high dpi
- Fix for IE sizing issue
- Fix for Opera repaint issue on scrolling
- Fix for blurred borders on large bordered skins
- Fix for UltraMon secondary taskbar
Users can update via download.stardock.com or via the Stardock Central beta.
More info about WindowBlinds can be found at www.windowblinds.net.
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Reply #22 Friday, March 23, 2012 5:15 PM
Just to clarify the issue, all OD products were uninstalled through Impulse, long ago, and reinstalled fresh from the store. To state there was an "error" without stipulating what the error was is a bit frustrating. I do know that the download from the store was 64MB and the download through SDC was only about 34MB. [e digicons]:')[/e] 
Reply #23 Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:20 AM
I got this after the computer woke up from sleep: (had to reboot CPU at 100% at all 6 cores)
Reply #24 Saturday, March 24, 2012 3:23 AM
After posting this i got this blue stripe in IE when i went fullscreen:
Reply #25 Saturday, March 24, 2012 7:59 AM
( Not the & shining through Menu, thats opera itself, the color artefacts)
During various stages of loading pages the band containing that toolbar varies from a image like a badly tuned tv, to this.
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 7.9
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.31 (build 318 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
(Generic PnP Monitor) 2 is attached to AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
(Generic PnP Monitor) 3 is attached to AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series
Wblind.dll 2012/03/16 12:07:20
Wblind64.dll 2012/03/16 12:07:47
Wbsrv.dll 2011/09/26 15:10:56
SevenConfig.exe 2012/01/14 16:21:58
Wbload.exe 2010/10/20 16:08:35
Wbhelp.dll 2011/10/04 10:01:37
Tray.dll 2009/10/23 20:12:19
Wbload.dll 2010/06/07 15:59:25
Screen.exe 2010/06/07 15:59:43
Reduced 36%
Original 1641 x 72
Reduced 36%
Original 1629 x 66
Due to a design decision by the Opera team (to use OpenGL to render their entire UI including their menubar and additional titlebar button), it is unlikely we will support skinning Opera 12 with hardware acceleration until they implement DirectX support which I understand is planned. Hopefully they will decide to default to DirectX rather than OpenGL.
To disable HW acceleration in the Opera 12 alpha, navigate to opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableHardwareAcceleration
Set this to 0, scroll down the page until you find the save button and press it. Then restart Opera.
Reply #26 Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:50 AM
Fix for IE sizing issue- is this related to scrollbars ?
Reply #28 Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:00 AM
jupp in IE9 they do Uvah - the tiling does not work in IE9 but it does in FF thats why i ask if this has been fixed if not i dont see a benefit of upgrading to the beta unless the ultramon update 
Reply #29 Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:10 AM
Reply #30 Saturday, March 24, 2012 12:18 PM
The IE9 scrollbars not supporting tiling (and having other limitations too) is due to the very limited themes support that Microsoft put into IE9. They did not implement support for tiling which is why you cannot use tile in scrollbars in IE9. We filed bugs on this but Microsoft decided not to fix it.
This is why we added the special web scrollbars which allow you to create scrollbars that will be used in IE9 without having to cripple scrollbars in other applications.
Reply #31 Saturday, March 24, 2012 1:34 PM
Neil thanks for the answer even if i have played with the web section i couldnt make it work- i was a bit unclear since i wasnt speaking about the drag bars, my problem is the background tiling still. Like i said FF is eating the margin setup and displaying it correctly while IE fails but its only one tiny thing and i guess if MS isnt playing along this is something that cant be fixed..
IE is still one of my most used browsers even if its ugly but after a little skinning it isnt that bad once you get rid of those huge nav buttons
I would just wish MS would participate a little more into the whole skinning section but i have seen the windows 8 fish
@ Well then you havent seen The B I G difference it did for Hyperborea frames !!! neone6 i will have a look at it on my second pc simply dont want to overwrite until its out of beta
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Reply #21 Friday, March 23, 2012 4:17 PM
Frankief had you ever updated WindowBlinds, or if you have Object Desktop any of it's programs using Impulse? If you did you will need to uninstall those programs using Impulse and then you should be able to reinstall using SDC. As strange as it sounds the new SDC system can not hook up with what was done with Impulse. Based upon what I found out from Stardock that's what I did and SDC works fine.
EDIT: Ooops, I went back and reread your reply #11 Frankief, should have done that to begin with, sorry.