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Window Blinds 6 Vista Taskbar Icons get large and blurry after applying skin

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Window Blinds 6 Vista Taskbar Icons get large and blurry after applying skin

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Ok, I am running Vista Business X64. Just updated to Window Blinds 6 (although it did the same thing with 5.5).

Everything works great for the most part, except whenever I apply any skin other than Vista's Aero theme, my taskbar (NOT QUICKLAUNCH) icons get large and blurry and pixelated, or too small and pixelated, or just the right size but blurry and pixelated... All I have to do to get them back to normal is apply the Vista Aero theme and sometimes and reboot is necessary, but they are back to normal, a nice size and sharp and clear.

It isn't even necesarrily that I need to just resize the taskbar icons using the "Active title bar" option in Personalize in Vista, because even if they are approximately the correct size, they become blurry and pixelated after application of any skin. And like I said, everything else about the skins are just fine.

Any ideas?
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yeah, here it is December 26, 2008 and I am stuck with these engorged icons in the sys tray in X64 Vista. Even after uninstalling windowblinds and my colors i am still stuck with them.  A new machine too.  if i can find a fix, after all the years i have supported stardock, I think I will be done with these buggy programs.

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

tennascee: To the best of my knowledge there is no problem with enlarged system tray icons with WindowBlinds 6.3 on 64 bit Vista.  We were able to tweak things on that OS to workaround this OS 'feature'.

You should ensure that you have WB 6.3 installed.

Please note that the exact same thing can be reproduced WITHOUT WindowBlinds by altering the titlebar height on Vista.

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

I am having this same problem on XP home....I recently reinstalled my OS & reinstalled all my programs.  I am using WB 6.3.  I can't figure out what to do to fix the setting.  I'd say about every 5 or 6th time I boot up, the icons come up looking like they are supposed to.  But the rest of the time, they come up large & blurry.  Anybody know how to fix this in XP or if there is another thread on that?