I agree with windoe, Looks like UI has gone backwards in time. 

We need more skins from the likes of DanilloOc, JJ.Ying, Mike Bryant, Essorant, vStyler Where did they go ? (not so much vStyler, seen his recent work and it's amazing like always).

{quote]It occurs to me to ask you to post a screenshot.  Some monitors have terrible rendering of light colours and so off white and white look identical and in some themes the line colour and the document colour may be closer than in others.[/quote]

Well for some reason today, the gridlines are clearly rendered using ignore or don't ignore mode.  However, when allowing WB to skin Excel 2010, the minimize, maximize and close buttons don't work so I set ignore back on for now.  Oh wait, I did change the blind I'm using so your theory may be correct,  As a matter of fact I used Skin Studio to affect amsall chnage to Ravens Wood once before to make it more readable.  I'm using Bell, Book and Candle now (both by Casperrr).

Impulse update was fine.

The dark Metro skin is beautiful. Dani? Use it for awhile. The effects are subtle. Love it.

Dunno about the others, but JJYing, I think, works for HP and probably has a full plate.

He has his own site too.

http://iconmoon.com/about.html 

And at DA.  

I'm right here, I'm back working at Stardock and in fact I did this two skins ( thought the original design direction is from Microsoft).

I'm working some really cool stuff at SD and have some new (original) skins coming too, i hope you like it

Cool Dani! I hope it works with WB 7.2 since until I find out somehow why 7.3 alters my screen brightness I'll be stuck with 7.2

And sorry guys...everything else works fine...it's just 7.3 that caused that...so it has to be something with that since it fixed itself after rolling back.

Yeah, I had so many of my programs crash I just deleted everything except cursorFX.  It seemed expecially bad after I tried to opened Skin Studio 7 to adjust the horizontal button position to use Vista style positioning on a couple of blinds.  Skin Studio wouldn't open and after that I got all of these errors so I just uninstalled everything and tried again.  Same result. 

Maybe consideration should be given to operating system specific installation instead of trying to incorporate changes for upcoming operating systems which seem to screw the pooch.  It has to be difficult as internet browsers and mail programs seem to always be changing their interface plus having to allow for several operating systems in both 32 and 64 versions.  Still, I'm gonna take a break for a while.

Based on the lack of other people reporting similar things and my knowledge of how WB works I believe your issue was just chance it happened with the WB update.  It could be you have an app running at startup which changes the brightness settings, but in that case I would expect to see a crash dialog if WB were crashing it before it could change your settings.

An updated 7.30.047 version is available via the My Accounts page on the Stardock store. I will see about updating the Impulse build on Friday. There are a couple of specific compatibility fixes and a bunch of updates to the Win8 Metro skin (Windows XP and Office 2007 oddities in particular).

Is it possible to force skin IE9 buttons and tabs?