That's not the point, but thanks for the suggestion.  WB4.6 skinned the prompt all day long and if you had a skin that would do window tranparency that would work as well.  Taking that feature away from WB5 just to implement PP is just stupid to me.  I'm sorry, but I just don't see what the big deal about PP is.  At first I was exited to see all the transparent frames and such, but now it's just anoying... people designing skins just aren't using it to full effect and that to me is a waste of a feature at the cost of others.  SD, are you listening?

Beta builds, by definition, will be buggy.

What Stardock does is have an on-going regimen of amendments/updates, often chasing some obscure 'issue' that no-one could even perceive or replicate until the product goes public.

If you want a real on-going 'skinnable' try Litestep....it's never made it to a genuine 'full' release yet....and it was originally for Win95.....yes, pre 98.

Functionality/specification/requirements/OS updates/revisions all demand this on-going effort....something that Notepad.exe doesn't need to contend with.

If you are dealing with something that works so CLOSELY with your OS, such as a complete Shell, or in the case of Windowblinds a GUI adaptation/mechanism capable of more than the OS maker had imagined possible then you have to expect that much about skinning is a W.I.P.

It's a fact of life, as anyone in the Skinning 'community' for any length of time can attest to....