skin studio XP and window blinds 5.51 help

arghh!...

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ok well.... i installed skin studio so that i could create some new themes and to test out skin studio i used another random theme and changed it a bit just messing about. The theme is a port of windows vista so it uses the round start orb but when i applied the theme and the orbs top went missing? how do i get that back with skin studio? its now basically the orb cut off to where the task bar stops.

Many thanks in advance for help 

mipmop
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't skin, but see if reply #1 makes any sense of it for you..
WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sounds like you deleted the Start button Overlay image.. or you checked the setting for it to NOT show all the time.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
right ok so where abouts is this setting? lol i cant find it...


thanks for replies
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Try re-downloading the skin and applying again (make sure you delete the one you have through WindowBlinds first). The orb is working fine for me.
What version of WindowBlinds do you have?
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
sorry i might have confused you a little bit, my problem is is that when i edit the theme with only a couple minor changes then applying the edited theme the top of the orb does not show, all other things are fine, its just that one detail thats bugging me.. i cant find out how to stop that from happening.

would it help if i posted a list of unsupported things that skinstudio says it cant do? as i dont understand most of them.

thanks for help btw
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
what version of SkinStudio?
also:
free, standard or pro?
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok its - skin studio pro - version 4.5.1 build 1035

in my programs it says its (SkinStudio XP)
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
version 4.5.1 build 1035


I believe this version is pre oversized start button, that would be why it is not working. Current pro version is 5.0.1 Build 1112. If you have a current Object Desktop subscription open Stardock Central and update to current version.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
err... lol im gussin im gonna have to go to stardock support for this, but in SDC it only recognises my skinstudio as bein the standard version? yet i have the pro version? any ideas.. or should i tell stardock.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok i emailed them explaining the situation, will let you know what happens
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
This is a transformation pack, meaning to attain how it looks in the screenshot there may be several other hacks \ programs needed to get it to look this way. I would avoid it.. there are plenty of other Vista wannabe themes around.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
that link i gave was just for the wb skin, in the comments at the bottom it just says here is the link to the vista transformation pack. this skin isn't part of that pack.
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Point being, the skin probably doesnt even have a start button overlay image.. some of the earlier Vista themes required a secondary program to make the start button appear correctly. Did it work before you opened it up in SKS? Worst case, use one of the other vista rips, their all pretty similar.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
yeah it does have the start button image overlay, but im guessin it don't work on my version of skin studio thats why i need to update it. and yeah im usin another one right now with hardly any probs but a few bugs here and ther. so yah! lol thanks for help
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ok just an update from whats happened after i emailed stardock. I was given skin studio pro for free download seeing as i got the wrong version in the first place, so now i have the real skinstudio pro! not the standard XP version. Thanks Stardock!!
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, wasn't that nice of them