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Blind functions without using a Blind?

November 25, 2003 12:55:39 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Can you configure Windows Blinds not to skin i.e. still use thye default XP Luna scheme but still have the good things like Roll Up/Down on Right Click Title bar?

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Reply #1 November 25, 2003 7:44:25 PM
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You could add any of those features to any blind you want pretty easily using SkinStudio
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Reply #2 November 26, 2003 7:02:16 AM
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check Freeshade. does exactly what you want: http://www.hmmn.org/FreeShade/
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Reply #3 December 2, 2003 4:38:24 PM
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Moshi: I installed Freeshade and now even when I uninstall it all the functionality remains, even though the app is gone. Aren't there just some registry settings that get changed to do the shutter thing? I can't remember what exactly needs to be changed in the registry to revert the original window behavior.

Any ideas? It isn't all that annoying, but when I shift-click to open a new window or select 'open in a new window' from the context menu it comes up shuttered.
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TigerMan
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Reply #4 December 3, 2003 7:08:02 AM
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sounds really strange. are you sure you uninstalled it? roll-up/shading (if that is what you mean with "shutter") is not a funtionality integrated into windows, so there is no reg key for that.
if you are sure you have uninstalled it, you might have set this behaviour in WindowBlinds earlier or it might be part of graphics card driver´s config (nVIDIA drivers come with that feature).
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Reply #5 December 3, 2003 11:57:41 PM
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Hrm. I'm running NVidea. No windowblinds though. I'll check in my video config and such and see. It all started the day I installed freeshade, though. I'll dig and and make sure. Just wanted to see if this was something others had seen happen. If all fails I'll email the guy. Thanks.
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Reply #6 December 21, 2003 12:08:26 AM
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WOO HOO!!

finally. I've been dealing with the aforementioned problem for a few weeks, but I *finally* figured it out.

It ends up that 'shading' in this case is just resetting the "restore" size of the window to a size so vertically small that the bottom edge is up against the title bar. When I uninstalled the program, the restore size wasn't changed, so all my new IE windows appeared to be shuttered.

I realized that I was getting a resize arrow on the bottom edge of the shuttered window, so I just dragged it open, and closed the window normally from the restore state to set the default restore size.

It was so simple it plumb evaded me...
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