Shell Menu Problems

Blackness.

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Okay, well, I just installed windowblinds 5 Final. It seems that when I use skins specifically designed for WB5 (Suchs as the Xbox360 skin, or KoLs Vista Beta 2 skin), The shell menu will show for about 1/3 a second (on the xbox360 skin), then turn completely black (On the vista skin, its always black =S). On the Vista skin, it is also slightly transparent. Any help? I waited a long time to use these skins, and now I can't.
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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
When you rightclick, the menu. Its called the shell.
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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Arctice,


You might want to copy and paste the text from "System Information" found in the WindowBlinds config panel.


Note - the common name for the menu you are referring to is "Context Menu", which was originally dubbed "Shortcut Menu" in the early days of Windows.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

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

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family

Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 12:01:54
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 11:50:22
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 15:45:06
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 15:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/26 18:09:46
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Neil,

In case you are on WC forum, and not on Stardock site viewing these threads, here is Artice's system info:

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

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

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to Intel(R) 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family

Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 12:01:54
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 11:50:22
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 15:45:06
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 15:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/26 18:09:46
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

Artice, thanks for posting.

Hopefully Neil will have time to look at this one.

I see onboard graphics, so this may be part of the issue, though it is a newer chipset.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

If that happens then it sounds like you have an app running which is trying to make all menus transparent.

You will need to disable that with WB skins which use per pixel menus as they will break the menus.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, I did, didn't see that. All fixed now! Now, I have one more problem. When using a transparent skin (in this case, KoL's Beta 2 Glass), the start menu/taskbar is transparent, yet the windows are not. They are completely black (like the Beta 2 black skin).