Also, setting Colour=0,0,0 under the DWMSettings also makes the blur more like what's on the other elements. I pretty much just now found that out, and it makes the blurred shadows more stand-able.

I've already seen the thread, and Sexy is worth the whole $5 that I spent. Yeah, I'm on Vista. I know about all the crap with blurring, yes. But hey, do Colour=0,0,0 and Alpha=0. It's more easily standable... And I'm actually using the blur with it right now. It just doesn't work as well as the other elements.

Everyting is working for me, but then again I'm using XP Home. There are some skins that don't allow blurring even with XP.   

You might need to force blurring by clicking the top radio button, "Always blur even if blahblahblah". And if I remember correctly... I don't think XP can blur menus.


Also, here's some screenshots of the hack-around blurring in action.




However, if you do choose to use this little hack-around, it will affect windows like this, just as Neil Banfield himself said in my other thread way back when:



It's weird - while dragging that window around, it seemed a little bit like the blur behind the titlebar was stronger than the blur behind the thingie underneath it. It'd be nice to be able to adjust the blur strength, but that's a pipe dream for a much later release.


Anyways, just like Neil said: to do it, open up the skin's uis file, add the section below to it at the bottom, then re-apply the skin.

[DWMSettings]
Alpha=0
Colour=0,0,0