Start11
WindowBlinds start menu animation not showing....
Friday, December 3, 2021 by don5318 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
It was brought to my attention (on my Red Christmas WB) that if you are using Start11 (on Windows 10) and your WindowBlinds skin start menu has any animation, it won't show up on the start menu, the animation is actually sitting behind the start menu, you will see it (for a brief second) as the start menu is opened. I have no idea as to why this is, maybe Neil can shed some light on this, anyways, to work around this you must turn off "Animate the menu when opening it" from the Visual appearance of Windows 7 style, then the animation will show up. The WB animation will show up on the start menu; normally on Start10. So, if you are using Start11 on Windows 10 use the steps below....
Reply #2 Saturday, December 4, 2021 10:36 AM
"to work around this you must turn off "Animate the menu when opening it" from the Visual appearance of Windows 7 style, then the animation will show up. The WB animation will show up on the start menu; normally on Start10. So, if you are using Start11 on Windows 10 use the steps below....
Actually I'm seeing this on Windows 10 with Start 10 too. Is there a workaround for Start 10? I looked at the settings and I don't see something similar to the "animate the menu when opening it" option. TIA
Reply #3 Saturday, December 4, 2021 10:41 AM
Actually I'm seeing this on Windows 10 with Start 10 too. Is there a workaround for Start 10? I looked at the settings and I don't see something similar to the "animate the menu when opening it" option. TIA
I've not seen that happen on Start10 on my main pc, I do know that if a person is using "FX" it will do the same, not to say you are, but that's what I've been told, I'll have to see if I can reproduce it.
Reply #4 Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:26 PM
Actually I'm seeing this on Windows 10 with Start 10 too. Is there a workaround for Start 10? I looked at the settings and I don't see something similar to the "animate the menu when opening it" option. TIA
I've not seen that happen on Start10 on my main pc, I do know that if a person is using "FX" it will do the same, not to say you are, but that's what I've been told, I'll have to see if I can reproduce it.
Yes, I am using WindowFX v6. I turned it off and sure enough the animation problem went away. I'm using your new Christmas skin and now I can see the Santa snow globe on the start menu. Thanks for the tip.
Reply #5 Saturday, December 4, 2021 1:47 PM
Yes, I am using WindowFX v6. I turned it off and sure enough the animation problem went away. I'm using your new Christmas skin and now I can see the Santa snow globe on the start menu. Thanks for the tip.
Good to know, it's working for you. 
Reply #6 Saturday, December 4, 2021 2:22 PM
Yes, I am using WindowFX v6. I turned it off and sure enough the animation problem went away.
In case it matters to you, I don't believe you need to entirely turn off WinFX, you just need to turn off the Start Menu animations within it. That way you can keep using whatever else you have turned on in it.
Reply #7 Saturday, December 4, 2021 6:12 PM
Yes, I am using WindowFX v6. I turned it off and sure enough the animation problem went away.
In case it matters to you, I don't believe you need to entirely turn off WinFX, you just need to turn off the Start Menu animations within it. That way you can keep using whatever else you have turned on in it.
Reply #8 Sunday, December 5, 2021 9:32 AM
Yes, I am using WindowFX v6. I turned it off and sure enough the animation problem went away.
In case it matters to you, I don't believe you need to entirely turn off WinFX, you just need to turn off the Start Menu animations within it. That way you can keep using whatever else you have turned on in it.
Can you say more about how to do this? I went into WindowFX settings and changed the Start Menu animation (open and close) to the default, but the snow globe is still broken in the WindowBlind Red Christmas skin when WindowFX is enabled.
Reply #9 Sunday, December 5, 2021 1:21 PM
Can you say more about how to do this? I went into WindowFX settings and changed the Start Menu animation (open and close) to the default, but the snow globe is still broken in the WindowBlind Red Christmas skin when WindowFX is enabled.
With Win10/Start10/WinFX, setting the Start Menu to "Default animation" within WinFX used to fix it:
I'm on Win10/Start11 now, and I'm seeing the same thing you're seeing - you have to completely turn off WinFX. (I'm not having any luck even getting WinFX to animate the Start Menu.) I don't normally run WinFX, so I'm afraid I have know idea when that might have changed, but if that's not working for you now with Start10 something else may have changed along the way (Win10 perhaps).
Sorry about that, all I can say is "It used to work that way."
Reply #10 Sunday, December 5, 2021 2:48 PM
Sorry about that, all I can say is "It used to work that way."
Thanks for confirming what I'm seeing here. I don't mind turning off WindowFX for now. I prefer the Start 10 animations
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 4, 2021 12:12 AM
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