Console Windows aren't being skinned

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I just recently purchased window blinds 5 and it brought out a lot of bugs in my system. I mean, it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Anyway after finding a wonderful application http://www.systweak.com/asov2/ and using Microsoft's Spyware Beta (it has some wonderful utilities in it for catching explorer and internet explorer hooks), I got my system all back and stable. Even the nasty problems with window blinds crashing, not skinning anything, making me reskin an app 2 or more times to get everything to look right, locking up, all of those were taken care of.

However, for some reason I can't get my console windows to skin in the latest beta version of WB5. My system information is as follows:

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

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

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have 2 monitors.

(NEC MultiSync LCD1700V) 1 is attached to ALL-IN-WONDER X800 Series
(Plug and Play Monitor) 2 is attached to ALL-IN-WONDER X800 Series Secondary

Wblind.dll 2005/12/20 22:41:38
Wbsrv.dll 2005/12/20 22:57:44
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/05 18:42:52
Wbload.exe 2005/12/21 00:04:40
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26


I am using the latest version of ATI drivers (5.13 Catalyst). I also, during the process of cleaning up my registry and system completely removed window blinds and all of it's registry entries (I think) and started with a fresh install. The problem still persists, and I also noticed (and this may be something that was not needed, but in the beta I was using), there was an option to skin the console windows yet in this version that seems to be missing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It is a known issue and I believe that they are working on it.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To be fair its not a bug.  The feature was removed in WB5.  It might be coming back in 5.1 though.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Why was it removed?  That was the best part about WB.  It was the only one that could skin the console window.  I don't know about you, but that was the number 1 reason why I switched to WB from StyleXP.  You seriously need to bring that back... no "might".  Without that feature alone I consider WB5 a downgrade myself.  I can't even use the full transparency skins because the Favorites in IE can't do it so it just make is look like crap every time I hit that menu.


I hate visually imperfect stuff.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
It was working before, why remove it? Please bring it back! I'd like all of my windows to look nice, not just some of them.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It has some issues with Per-pixel Alpha Belending engine .. !!!