neil, i didn't have access to the earlier betas.

This occurs when I click on the WB config dialog, but outside of the left window for example the substyle drop down control.

The last two betas released were usable in trial mode too.

Are you using a local account or a Windows Live account to login and is your machine set to autologin?

neil, i didn't know previous builds were available for trial so i hadn't installed them. sorry. my login is set to auto and my account is [email protected] which is also my microsoft account login addy that i use for technet.

i'm sure you will squash what few bugs there are. when you do, i will renew my ODNT sub.

Don't mean to be a bother but did anyone pic up on my post above?

Windowblinds is not loading a skin when my system boots or restarts. I have to apply manually after it up. I'm running Win 7 Ultimate. Any Ideas?  Rad

Its WindowBlinds 8.0 (017 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

What skin are you getting on a login?

At the moment we are unable to reproduce this on the machines we have tested on.  We will continue to try to reproduce it.
(If anyone else in this thread can do so, please let us know so we can find  out anything in common.)

UPDATE: I did some more research on this Neil as far as the text color on the expanded start menu (right side). On some skins it is fine, but on some it is an incorrect color no matter what. So I checked the code and I cannot seem to notice any difference in the code between a skin that is having the issue and one that is not. For instance, the Sublime skin is fine, but Sandera7 (should be white text and isn't) has an issue. Altero is fine, but Altosa is not. Chronos, Captivate and iOS have the issue, as well as many other skins. Don't know what to do on this one, so hope you guys can figure it out. Thanks.

Hi Neil, I'm not getting any skin, it's just classic windows. Rad

Ok, I may need to apologize! I changed skins and rebooted and now it's working fine! I was using "Windows Aero" and today I changed it to "Revolver" and rebooted just to see and it worked fine sooooo...I dunno but sorry for any trouble I may have caused.  Rad

I just posted this in another part of the forum and I'm not sure anybody really understood the issue but it was recommended that I post it here,so as I posted there

Just so we're clear;

Brightside windowblind with color applied by skin. 

Opening Window Color and Appearance app

Note I've selected black and the apply button is functional.

Apply button has been clicked and is now greyed out, but color has not changed. Previously at this point, it would.

But now after logging out and back in it has been applied.

I don't think I can make it any clearer.

I mentioned the background color bug in an e-mail I sent to support. I have a ticket going because WB8 tends to crash when you close the configuration window, I just got an e-mail back saying that they have escalate the background color issue to the Dev team.

I have an issue with Explorer windows on secondary monitors, this doesn't happen on the primary monitor.  Yeah, I know... weird.

Anyways, when you maximize an Explorer window on a secondary monitor the window's title bar, toolbar, and a lot of other things about the window gets completely mangled.  Also, the minimize, restore, and exit controls don't work either.

This is a picture of a mangled Explorer window.

I am a Windows Blinds 7 customer as well as a SkinStudio 7 Customer. How since you updated all our downloads in our My Downloads section to SkinStudio 8 can we get back out purchased SkinStudio 7 that works with Windows Blinds 7?

SkinStudio 7 will not run on Windows 8.  Sorry.

I think he's asking, as a Win 7/WB7 user, how to redownload SKS 7. Obviously, archiving it would have been the prudent thing to do, (which I have done) since it is no longer in our ODNT accounts.

Will SKS 8 work on on Windows 7 and with WB7?

I know that sks8 and wb8 work fine on windows7. Don't believe you can mix them.

I realize this is the beta issue thread for Windowblinds 8, but its the only one I can find that references the same problem LightStar reported where UIS2 titlebar text won't display.  Is this a known issue with Windowblinds 8 and is a fix in the works?  I have been using Windowblinds for about 10 years now and have a TON of UIS2 skins!!  If I can't use them anymore, I'll have psychological issues.  

Creating a skin, authors have to apply a skin too many times to see the changes they have made.. unfortunately this is not possible with Windowblinds 8 and Windows 8, I can apply only once the skin and does nothing if I want to apply the same skin  again  or any other skin...

The only solution I have found is to restart every time to be able to see the changes I have made, after a restart it works fine but for one skin only and this is very annoying and time consuming... I wonder if there is a solution for this issue.

Windows 8 Pro (9200.win8_gdr.130531-1504)
WindowBlinds 8.0 (017 - Windows 8 Edition) - 64 bit OS