Teething troubles

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Just bought Windowblinds 5 and having a few teething troubles:

1. Switching skins doesn't seem to 'take' properly, most times after switching things look garbled (particularly the taskbar/start menu) and I have to log out and log back in again to resolve.

2. Some skins seem to draw a border around running apps, leading to a flickering effect that effects performance when run full screen. Playing Oblivion is an example - I play this at my native desktop resolution, 1024x768. Right now I have the 'Royale Vista' skin installed, and on playing the game I see the border of the Oblivion window flickering in and out, and it slows the game to a crawl. Similar effect using the Aerial skin (my favourite). Other skins like Fresco don't seem to show this behaviour.

Setup: XP SP2 with latest updates, 2.8Ghz, 1GB ram, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB video with latest Catalyst 6.5 drivers. Same problems with the stable 5.01 WB release and the latest beta.

Any advice?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First, go to the System Information panel of WindowBlinds Configuration dialog, copy the information there & paste it into a reply here. That may help.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(SyncMaster152B(M)/155B(M)/156B(M)/152K(M), SyncMaster Magic CX156B(M)/MX154B(M)/CX154B/LX154B) 1 is attached to RADEON 9800 PRO

Wblind.dll 2006/06/06 12:09:02
Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/05 12:58:22
Wbconfig.exe 2006/03/19 14:33:44
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:12
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
The two checkboxes at the bottom of the dialog are unchecked.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
current video drivers?
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yep, all current. Actually, it seems like the checkbox options are related to both my problems - check first one to not use per pixel borders, the second if I have corrupted titlebar buttons and text backgrounds (although the problem seems more extensive than that). I'll fiddle with those settings and check back...

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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No joy, still have the corruption problems, need to log out/in again to correct it. Ah well. Anyone else have trouble with a Radeon 9800 Pro?

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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Try rolling WB back to the last released version and see if you have the same issues
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
some driver info: Link