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I have the retail version of Windows Ultimate and yes without windows blinds running the Aero shows transparency correctly. As soon as I switch to a blinds skin it seems to switch the interface to Basic and then applies the skin. The start+tab window thing doesn't work either (it just does nothing). I'm not sure if this is the window blinds or the window fx running.

i can't seem to go back to aero with WB .. it just goes back to windows basic. So it looks like WB is downgrading my system for some reason.

After feather testing... that is if i can learn to spell... lol anyway It seems that windowblinds when running in vista uses vista's api's or native skining engine like it does on xp.. I have come to this conclusion because manualy stopping dwm.exe seems to kill all transparency on all wb5 perpixle skins.. Thats how it is able to run and not use more memory then windows does to skin windows.. The per pixel has been offloaded to dwm thats why the aero minimizing and maximizing effects and 3dflip work. But windowblinds doesnt 100% enable dwm all the time but most times thats why we will get the per pixel disabled. If this makes any sence tell me because in writing it i got confused lol.. Anyway bottom line..

WIndowblinds uses windows api's to skin windows.. all per pixel effects have been offloaded to dwm thats why they say perpixel will not work on vista computers without dwm compadible cards/drivers. This is inovative however id expect windowblinds perpixel to work without dwm because it works in xp maybe it needs an option to do perpixel without dwm. tho we would loose the extra minimizing and maximizing and 3dflip dwm provides. It is all up to developers but I think that perpixel should be achivable without dwm since dwm when active uses up to 20-30 megs of ram then without it. Its an issue but vista has been out to the public for what a few months month and a half or what and windowblinds has been adopted by an even smaller percentiage of those who actualy have vista. It will be worked out sooner or later.

for now i dont really care because my favorite skin doesnt use perpixel anyway its watercolor xp (whistler's old visual style)

anyone else have anything to add or correct i may have gotten a few things wrong but for the most part i think im right.. i dunno

I have Vista Basic on a PC that is otherwise completely Aero capable (I already subscribe to OD, so I couldn't justify paying the extra $60 only for for Aero, when I love OD/WB and would change the skin anyway). I also have the transparency problem mentioned previously. Does WB support Vista Basic? No differentation has been made in the specs of WB as to Vista version, except for Deskscapes, that I can find. If Basic is suported, how would I get DWM to work on my machine (for transparency)? Wb 5.5, Celeron 3.0Ghz, 1.5GbRam, Nvidia FX 5200 250Mb video card.