Skinning the all prog mouseover image for Vista/Win7 will cancel out the mousover color.

I still need to do plenty of stuff but this is where iam at currently.

Keep an eye on the potential for 'confused' light-sources...aka shadows in the wrong places - make sure they all match [angle, offset, etc].

Other than that it looks like a Plumber's nightmare.....

....but fun...

This might be due to the wrong frame count, or the way you put them together.  It sometimes gets confusing because of the "focus and default" image, and where you need the animation to start and loop back to in the animation settings.

Follow the instructions in this tutorial and you should be good: https://forums.wincustomize.com/361485

Is there any chance you can send me the .wba file so I can take a look at it and see what might be happening?  My e-mail address is k4r3nl0we@gmail.com.

Actually there is k10w3 Go to edit, on top is the first undo. after that go down two lines and it will say step back. Same as undo.

I´ve just send you the wba including the png´s extra.

I fixed the start button to 27 frames for you and sent it back -- see it this is what you wanted it to do.

I'm not seeing what you're talking about -- it's going left to right.

I just compared the 2 wba´s the one you fixed shows a image size for the startbutton that is 1728x45 mine is 2800x50 did you resize it ?
Im just trying to figure out what i have done wrong  . Edit : just importet the startbutton from the fix you send me and skinstudio is rejecting it whenever i insert it it jumps back to the standart button. I made the exact same changes, set image count to 27 animation start to 6 and end to 27 but its not working here on my pc.
Also im wondering why the image size is diffrent.  i should maybee reinstall Skinstudio.
Anyway thanks a lot you realy helped me today  

I said start from zero, and work from there, in other words change the painting margins slowly and reapply and check ect.

make sure you have changed the height and width of the bottom bar in extra settings in sk to the correct numbers of your skin.

oops about the mouse over colour karen, my bad, i think im getting more aloof with every new day xx

My problems have gone i uninstalled skinstudio with an error yesterday via impulse, that already made me wonder.
With a fresh install over impulse i got an error code 207 or something when i tried to start skinstudio.
So i removed the registry keys via regedit: Made a reboot and since that its working, but its still am miracle to me that the tga from the skin i had send to k10w3 had a different size after it was returned via mail from k10w3 mine is still at 2800x50 while the size from k10w3 is 1728x45.
I tried to add it to the last saved wba, but then skinstudio switches to some different diamond button. The whole wba k10w3 send me works perfectly fine if i apply it.
But i cant export the tga and put it into an older backup wba.
Its strange and i don’t know what is causing that.
But i remade the startbutton had to resize it anyway - it was simply to small.
I took your advice to make a simple button for shutdown and so on.Made the buttons for the taskbar and shutdown i also made some small modifications to the overall startmenu look.
@ Jafo i also took your advice but its not that easy to fix since i didnt use photoshop shadows i removed them and made my own effects with clipping masks for each tiny thing ... this first wba try already has a total including backups of 160mb +
I will try to get startmenu done first and then i will concentrate on some positioning of the taskbar.
Iam already exited to do the rest. But there is so much to do still, iam really trying to keep it simple and useable, but yet eye-catching.
The most important thing is that the fun overweight’s the frustration, i think after iam done i will have a different perspective for all the local skinners.
It is so complicated to keep everything in touch and its really way more work than i expected so at this point i want to say thanks to every windowblind skinner out there for so much free skins over the past years I now even more honor your work.And then again thank you all especially Vampothika and k10w3 I really appreciate your help.