Menu Fade Effect Disappeared

I'm on the trial version of WB 5. Have had it for 2 days and the menu fade-in effects have all of a sudden disappeared. Now they just appear without any animation. I've tried reinstalling WB but it still doesn't bring back the fade.
Please help.
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Reply #1 Top
I don't believe WB handles menu effects in general. WindowFX does, as does Windows itself, but not WB.

Menu backgrounds can have animations defined in a skin (obviously, skin-specific), but there is no general menu animation control which applies to all skins in WB Config. Now that you raise the question, I'm not sure how WB & WFX handle a conflict if an animation is used in a skin while WFX menu animations are enabled - so few skins use that WB feature that I've never run into that.
Reply #2 Top
But the thing is the first day i used WB the menu fade effects were actually working. Now whenever WB is running the fade gets disabled.
Reply #5 Top

If a menu is per pixel in the skin then it will not fade in.

Perhaps you are now using a different skin which has per pixel menus?

Reply #6 Top
I'm using VistaXP which has per pixel menus, but as i said, when i started using the skin it worked then stopped the next day. Also, the non-per pixel menus won't fade-in either.

I'm just trying some skins with non-per pixel menus now and it still won't allow fade-in. I think really inconvient that this type of software should disable options that are already on Windows.

EDIT: On closer inspection, it appears that WB has infact disabled the fade-in effect. When i go to desktop apperance properties, there's a "-" sign in the checkbox next to "menu effects". I think that's really stupid. Shame on you Stardock.
Reply #7 Top
WindowBlinds does not disable the system wide fade effect.
Reply #8 Top
Oh yay! I got it working just now. I think it still has got to do with what skin is selected. My bad.