Depending on the technique used for the stretching -Tiled or Stretched, you would have to adjust the Margins accordingly to make the buttons work properly.

Post the skin name?Might be able to tell you exactly what to do.

A link to find the skin might be good too. Looking at the skin I am wondering why the images are misaligned vertically and not horizontally. If it was a margin issue I would think your images would be misaligned only horizontally. Seems like an image stack issue to me?

Would love to look at the skin to  find out.

Up to you though!

Thanks so much for replying and offering to help!  I can't wait to find a solution.

Here's a skin example below. 

INVI 4V

All the ones I tried similar to this skin (for example all the skins made by 007TINAR do exactly what you see in the above screenshot.  Ive seen this on other skins too; but can remember the names.  I can reproduce this on ALL my Win7 machines (64bit and 32bit) and any version of WindowBlinds.

I know that these skins were created when there was only Windows Vista.  So, it's possible, I need to modify something related to the taskbar buttons.  I'd like to know how to do this from the experts on this forum.

Windowblinds settings:

1. I want to force the start button to be positioned in the middle in all skins.

2. The taskbar should be sized as follows:  Skin decides taskbar size

Just change your top and bottom paint margins to 14 on your taskbar, flash and taskbar progress bar if you add it, and don't forget your vertical taskbar buttons mkanet, works fine.

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