bobbyhundreds

Join Date 11/2002

Corrupted Menus in Windows Mail

With WindowBlinds 6

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.

windowblinds

Locked Post

Advanced Search

Watch this post

Do not email me updates for this post Email me updates for this post

Successfully updated karma reason!

ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

+917

Tehy loko nromla to me>

Successfully updated karma reason!

stop it !

Successfully updated karma reason!

I think they sprouted stubble.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Sign Up or Login and this ad disappears!
There are many great features available to you once you register. Sign Up for a free account and browse the forums without ads.

Bumpity Bump

Successfully updated karma reason!

vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

+919

Lordy lordy thats begging for a punchline..

I have never seen anything like that.. does it happen in my WB's?

Successfully updated karma reason!

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.

Successfully updated karma reason!

CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

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?

Successfully updated karma reason!

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.

Successfully updated karma reason!

vStyler

Join Date 11/2004

+919

After sleeping on it I think I have the culprit...

Gremlins

Successfully updated karma reason!

hehe I must say I agree.

Successfully updated karma reason!

CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

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.

Successfully updated karma reason!

ZubaZ

Join Date 11/2001

+917

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?

Successfully updated karma reason!

CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

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.

Successfully updated karma reason!

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.

Successfully updated karma reason!

CerebroJD

Join Date 01/2003

So perhaps it was a skin problem that had been fixed already? I couldnt say for sure... :-/

Successfully updated karma reason!

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.

Successfully updated karma reason!