Cleartype in Explorer broken - WB

Clear type looks as if its working fine on your screen.   

The author of this skin has predilection on exiguous fonts,you could enlarge them by Windowblinds' own feature,or re-edit with skinstudio.

The fonts where much sharper before the update, trust me. Also the problem is the same with any other skins. I notice a markable difference when switching to Aero also.

Have you tried another skin?

Also make sure cleartype is actually enabled as it is possible it got turned off somehow.

As I said, everything is fine when I only use Aero. It also seems to me that the large fonts setting is broken with WB.

Okay, after some more experiments part of the problem seems to be the font setting in the particular skin. Note that I have to restart before all fonts get updated when changing the skin. Something is definately different regarding font settings in this build of WB.

What font setting in the skin? As you said it was fine before WB update.. Obviouslty I can't set fonts to autofix on WB update but I'm curious what you did to fix it.

Nicholassworld..been to the optometrist lately? Over 250 comments on this skin, not one about font size.. nice to see you back though Stalker Nick   

vStyler : I have set all fonts to Tahoma now.

The same thing happens for me on all skins. It wasn't so bad when using Vienna because the fonts at least smoothed, but on skins using Tahoma it is terrible. I had to stop using WB at least for now because of this.

Yes, it just still doesn't look right. To me it seems as if the smoothing is lost from time to time.

Any progress here ?

The same thing happens for me on all skins. I just updated WB.

Well I hope someone reads this. Earth to Stardock.

It showed up in one of Brad's screenshots even.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.7

Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4.7

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.51 (build 110 x86 - Vista Edition))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)

Wblind.dll 2007/06/18 15:11:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/06/12 17:56:39
Wbconfig.exe 2007/06/19 10:43:03
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 16:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 19:27:49
Wbload.dll 2007/05/26 12:35:56

Using Windows Vista 32bit Ultimate

Update : The problem is recognized and cared for and hopefully be history with the next update.

Great news!

Is the next update going to be WB6, or?

yeah, i had the same problem. when i tried to contact stardock about this, and gave them all my info necessary, they had no direct solution. so i uninstalled 5.51 and reverted to 5.50 lol. RETARDED for a payware!

We have tracked down why this happens with some skins and will be putting out an update soon (a non WB6 build)

Thanks, Neil

Thanks.

Ah, fine !

It is happening in a lot more places than just Explorer.

Bug is found.
Bug is reported.
Bug is (being) fixed.

This is the way things are supposed to work. Yay!