WB Vista 5.5 Bug?

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I'm not sure if this is known but I am running WB 5.5 on Vista x64 and for some reason all the skins I've applied make my system tray icons huge.
Heres a pic:

Is this a known bug with x64 thats going to be fixed in WB 6.0? It's a really big annoyance if you know what I mean. Not only do the system tray icons look ugly and huge, the taskbar is larger and even the Start Pannel icons are larger as well. I really hope this gets fixed or atleast is acknowledged and going to be looked at....
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just noticed something. If I unload WB then reload it the system tray icons are their normal size. But when I reboot they appear to be larger again.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yet another conflict when a skin is applied. The catalyst control center sits there for about 30 seconds when I try to open it, after which it crashes and im forced to close it. When I unload WB this problem no longer happens.

WB Info:

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.4

Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.51 (build 110 x86 - Vista Edition)) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

(Dell E207WFP) 1 is attached to Radeon X1950 Series

Wblind.dll 2007/06/18 15:11:20
Wblind64.dll 2007/06/18 15:11:04
Wbsrv.dll 2007/05/05 16:28:50
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 18:26:49
Wbload.dll 2005/02/23 17:09:23
WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well I really appreciate the overwelming amount of replies to this issues!
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Astyanax0 keep in mind it's Monday morning. People will come by and comment/answer. Have you emailed support yet?
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Astyanax0 keep in mind it's Monday morning. People will come by and comment/answer. Have you emailed support yet?


Brilliant idea, I'll be waiting over a week for a proper responce.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Remember, this is a community forum that the Stardock devs and support grace with their presence.  For formal support, you can always email [email protected].

Until then you can only hope that 1) another user with WB5.5 and Vista64 had the same problem and found a fix; or 2) one of the above-mentioned Stardockians arrive with a response.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
I asked around for an answer for you and here's what I came up with:

The WB bug could be caused by a bad "caption height" value in a skin and may continue until you restart the PC with a skin that doesn't have a bad caption height value.

Here's a similar post that may also offer you some suggestions:
https://forums.joeuser.com/?forumid=54&aid=160598

Other than that, I can only suggest that you email or call Stardock support and talk to someone more directly connected to the issue.

Best of luck!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That did it, I guess I'll have to go through each skin and take a look around so that Font height is correctly set. Does anyone know exactly where in skinstudio this setting is?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That did it, I guess I'll have to go through each skin and take a look around so that Font height is correctly set. Does anyone know exactly where in skinstudio this setting is?


Anyone?
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Whoops, easily overlooked.
One problem though. Skins that arent PerPixel like Camaro that have to get the titlebar height adjusted so the system tray icons don't get huge seem have some frame issues. The top image shrinks (which is to be expected) and when I try to add a PerPixel frame to it there seems to be an issue since the skin is UIS1, the PerPixel frame doesn't show in Vista when applied.