Corrupted Menus in Windows Mail

With WindowBlinds 6

from WinCustomize Forums
Hi,I am using the latest WindowBlinds with Vista Home Premium and I am having a problem with the menus in Windows mail.They have lines on them which disappear as I mouse over them but reappear straight afterwards.It happens with the Adamant and Classic skins by Stardock Design and Adrenaline by PixelPirate loaded but stops happening if I reload Vista's native skin or Optix,Diamond,Leo etc..
Here are some screenies:




Here's my system info:
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.2
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4.6

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.0 (build 50 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(HP L2045w Wide LCD Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1650 SE

Wblind.dll 2007/10/04 17:58:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/09/24 19:08:26
Wbconfig.exe 2007/10/01 17:35:33
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:28
Screen.exe 2007/10/01 11:23:24

Any ideas? It's got me stumped.    
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Tehy loko nromla to me>
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Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Lordy lordy thats begging for a punchline..   I have never seen anything like that.. does it happen in my WB's?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey there vStyler   hehe no,just the ones I mentioned.I'm gonna do a system restore at the weekend to see if that sorts it out.  
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That might be a bit of an agressive step... I'm not exactly sure where WB is even getting those lines from... Perhaps its a bizarre margin problem?  Have you opened up the skins in SKS and taken a look for any common values that might be leading toward this issue, that other skins (like vStyler's) dont have?
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hi there CerebroJD,thanks for dropping by.  Unfortunately my technical expertise doesn't stretch that far but thanks for the suggestion.TBH a system restore shouldn't be too drastic as it's a new pc and I hardly have anything on it yet,apart from BitDefender 2008 which I bought yesterday.
Hey at least it's unique,I bet no one else has hairy menus.     
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
After sleeping on it I think I have the culprit...


Gremlins   
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My question, of course, would be "why is it only happening in Windows Mail"?  They must be doing something non-standard in that application to cause it to just do it there.  In which case, I would wait around until we can get a developer or SD support staff in here to respond.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You know . .most menus have the keystroke letter underlined to indicate that you could [alt}-F for file then the letter to indicate the action ([alt]-F-N to go File | New Message)

I don't see those underscores in your menu . . any connection?
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Perhaps... but Windows has a setting to disable that underline until you hit Alt.  It seems that a combination of properties in the skin, and the application itself are causing these problems... Perhaps I'll need to check out Windows Mail when I get home to figure out if I can reproduce the problem.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well..... the plot thickens     I uninstalled Adamant and Adrenaline then re-installed and viola...no more hairy menus.Most peculiar.  I'm installing Windows Live Mail to replace Windows Mail now so I'll see what happens to that.Thanks guys.  
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So perhaps it was a skin problem that had been fixed already?  I couldnt say for sure... :-/
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Could well be that CerebroJD.I'll keep an eye on it and if it re-occurs I'll post here again. 
Actually when it was happening I wasn't getting the nice blue mouse over effects(with Adamant) in the menus,whereas I am now so yes,maybe a corrupted skin install.I was messing around with a new anti virus program around that time,so maybe that.