Updated Info: Taskbar transparency is also not working on my Surface Pro tablet in exactly the same way as my desktop. It turns out I had simply not noticed it before because i mostly use the Metro interface with this device.

Yes thank you, applied the rule and when I select a skin and run it I get a blank back ground with only a mouse cursor on screen.

Thanks

Hi, the issues I'm experiencing so far are:

1) The address bar text (as shown in the pic) isn't displaying correctly. This occurs with the standard themes as well as others.

2) Flickering occurs inside the same address bar during some operations (like copying and stuff).

3) In windows 8 copy progress bar (with more details shown) the progress in the bar isn't shown graphically. There is not colour char to show the history of the copy nor is there the bar line that shows the current speed. Only the text value of the bar is shown. In "lesser details" the bar colour is visible. This also occurs with the standard themes as well as others. Could this be for a lack of theme adaptation to new windows 8 features?

4) And this one is a bit more troublesome for me... When doing remote desktop (to windows server 2012 from my machine) I am unable to click on the start menu corner or expand the notification bar menu because the taskbar of my machine keeps popping in front of the taskbar of the remote machine whenever I click on the taskbar. I have to use a smaller window mode in order to click there.

5) I am trying to reproduce this problem on command but haven't managed yet. I have a suspicion that the problem arises once windows 8 tries to sync backgrounds with another machine that your account is linked with (I have work laptop that doesn't have windowblinds installed). When I boot into windows the theme will have lost its textures (the taskbar and window borders will be white, the start button from start8 is still there and properly textured). The taskbar on the second screen is also slightly sunk down as to show about half of it. Re-applying the theme or changing themes resolves the issue

System and software details:

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 7.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 8.1

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.90 (008 - Windows 8 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

(Acer G245H) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
(Acer G245H) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670

Wblind.dll 2013/05/20 17:43:ll
Wblind64.dll 2013/05/20 17:43:48
Wbsrv.dll 2013/05/20 16:18:07
WB8Config.exe 2013/05/20 18:03:20
Wbload.exe 2013/05/07 19:30:24
Wbhelp.dll 2013/04/18 20:51:37
Tray.dll 2013/04/18 20:51:19
Wbload.dll 2013/05/20 16:18:39
Screen.exe 2013/05/09 20:07:23

I also have no antivirus installed

Don't know if this is a bug or not as all skins do not do it, but it does not occur in Windows 7, only Windows 8. Note the red markers of issues that occur when doing a search from the start menu. I know there is no mouse over image in Windows 7, but evidently there is in Windows 8 and it is overriding on the bottom panel. May be my images, but I cannot figure it out as I tried modifying this with SKS8 beta, but to no avail, nothing would change.

Blank background after installing WindowBlinds. I encountered the blank background (no wallpaper, icons or taskbar). However, if I exclude explorer.exe from windowblinds that problem goes away. However, that means my system windows don't get skinned and have a Windows 2000 look to them. I'm running Windows 8 Pro 64 bit. Video card - Radeon 7850 - Catalyst version 13.4

Are you running any other applications which may do something inside explorer? Anything to add a start button in Win8?

Also what Antivirus / Antimalware software are you running?

I'm using Stardock's Start8 to give me back the start button. I'm also using Virtual CD v10 - maybe it does something to explorer since it adds extra options to the right click menu for drive icons.  As for Antivirus I'm using Eset 6. Originally I was unable to get WindowBlinds to start but your fix to the settings for wbcore.exe fixed that problem. I found I also had to exclude taskmgr from WindowsBlinds if I wanted it to appear. The UAC popup window also wouldn't appear. 

When I apply color, texture or background, the title bar disappears.  I have to use the default settings. How can I correct this issue?  Thank you.

You are not using anything from Comodo too are you?

Which skin are you using?  This doesn't sound normal.

Response to reply 129:

    I'm using nothing from Comodo

Further update for my desktop system:

Dragon Age II keeps randomly skipping out of fullscreen mode into Windowed mode until I added it to the applications/do not skin list. This seems to most frequently happen if I click anything near the screen border. Will test with other games to see if it is a general DirectX fullscreen thing or not.

Windows 7 64 bit. WB 8 Beta

Start menu animations not working on secondary monitors.

Tested:

Vaporglow

RPM

MRX Reloaded

Also running DisplayFusion. 

This just in! If you hover the cursor over the start menu, secondary, the animation will pop in. But not just by clicking the start button.

On my windows 7 x64 home premium, when I apply color,texture or background, the title bar disappears.  The title bar is showing on any skin until I apply the aforementioned. I have not tried this on my windows8 pro yet.   Any suggestions?  Thank you in advance.

Mr Banfield,

Ive been using Comodo for years with no problems. They have the best Internet security out there.

I ran into problems with this Beta WB and Comodo, so I uninstalled Comodo I.S. and went to default windows 8 Defender security.

Windowblinds runs fine with it. 

HOWEVER, I have now tried Panda Cloud I.S., Avast I.S. and Comodo I.S. ALL of them have problems with Windowblinds.

Hence this is a problem with Windowblinds, not with the security software being used. Fix your software please.

It's rather foolish to force a person to change antivirus software to "fit" your program. 3 out of 4 I've tested have had problems with Windowblinds. I think the faulty party is being presented here.

This is clearly a Stardock problem.

I have a problem that if I change the show desktop button 

under the task bar section it doesn't change it fully.

it is pulling the image from the Edit Controls section- Button image

Here is an image to show you what I am talking about

OK so I am making my skin.
I go to "Theme part details" in SKINSTUDIO
If I click on Normal style MenuBars or click on Favorites menu or Popup Menus
the window comes open and than SkinStudio force closes as soon as I move my mouse
I have iconpackager, fences, and windowblinds 7.90 installed
64 bit os
Windows 8

Apparently, after applying texture, color or background to a skin, a reboot is required to get the title bar back.

How do I uninstall an old version of Windowblinds and other stardock software that says I must use impulse to uninstall it? I uninstalled impulse when I downloaded the new stardock central a long time ago. Thanks!