installed the new SDC first.

Showed DX and WB6 updates available, clicked update now. DX installed. Got the 'previous version of WB must be uninstalled first. Did that. Rebooted. Naked Computer

Opened SDC, no update prompted, but showed WB6 as available to install. Installed, rebooted.

Working as expected. VERY NICE!!! On XP no less. It might be just in my head, but there *seems* to be more areas allowed to be transparent/translucent.

Even got an unexpected bonus: The new SD skin "Diamond" allows for full window drags, not just the outline. (my graphics card isn't up to spec) It's a little slow, but still. It's the only skin which allows that. That skin seems to slow everything else down. Don't know why. Changing to anything else clears up the slowness.

My only beef is that changing skins is now very, very slow.

There is a process showing up called "WBINST~2.exe. Don't know what that is, haven't tried killing it, but it won't go away on its own.

Hummm, child windows not skinned in Opera, WinRAR, MP3tag... and command prompt not skinned (like wB5).

> Ticket posted On: Jun 22 2006 12:56 AM (Support Center)

Downloaded update, my skin titlebar still no blur.

Yeah...I just noticed it deleted some skins! Why on earth would someone do that without a warning of some kind? Who would expect before hand that this would happen!

Vector Cell is missing. Is there a list somewhere of which skins got deleted so we can do reinstall them?

And I'm also having the problem about the window frames not blurring over certain things. Examples: there's no blur when placed over Winamp, and when hovering over my Avedesk widgets...it doesn't see them at all, only the wallpaper behind them.

It is just too cool. I did loose all my skins that I had on WB 5. But I can always download them again. I want to say that the Molten Skin is to cool. And I love the way you can change the colors and transparency.. Everyting went very smooth for me.
Had NO problems. Uninstalled 5 and reinstalled 6. Everything is working fine. I am using OS Vista Premium.

Ditto!

I have a question, will the older skins like from 2003 or 2004 still work with WB6???

Ok I just noticed something else...if i open notepad and place the titlebar directly over the titlebar for windows explorer...no blur (or over any other titlebar), but....when winamp is behind explorer and notepad on top of explorer....winamp gets blurred....but the section of explorer titlebar not overlapping winamp isn't blurred. @_@


Ok...nevermind all that nonsense above. It seems the titlebars are blurred when placed over the winamp playlist, just not the main window (Winamp 5 with modern skin). Titlebar on top of titlebar still seems to have no blurring...

So far, WB6 looks pretty much like WB5 on my XPP SP2 rig (has constant alpha only). Unfortunately, the menu painting problem that I've posted about with 5.51.025 (all versions after 5.49, actually) persists with this version. That's the only real knock I have for now.

The blur effect looks great on Diamond, even without PPA here, except for the Titlebar-over-Titlebar problem others have mentioned. Can't say as I see any change in performance. I love the new UI options, particularly the control over system button animation - thanks, SD, for listening to our requests.

One observation: the Taskbar Sizing Bar for a vertical taskbar is now completely transparent; can still grab it & resize the bar, but just shows the wallpaper through the "crack" as it were. Overall looks damn good for the first beta.

And "Unload WindowBlinds" is back in the SysTray Icon Context Menu -

Can you turn off blur on Vista.ExplorerTop?

Working perfectly on XP here.

When I try and change the sidebar skin it will not change.

Also when I create my own sidebar skin and try to edit it, I get the following error message:

This application has filed to start because iconv.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.


I tried reinstalling WB6 and it doesnt seem to have helped.

Am on Vista business, AMD 3500, Geforce 7600.