Only skins some apps and not the taskbar

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC but the Desktop Window Manager is NOT enabled!

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Good evening y'all. I've been using WindowBlinds for almost a month now and everything was working perfectly. All of a sudden it stopped working and I have no idea why. Below you will find an image with all my WindowBlinds information. It says that "Desktop Window Manager is not enabled" but I don't understand why. I've already tried uninstalling and reinstalling WindowBlinds and it still says the same. I made sure that DWM is enabled in both task manager and services.msc as seen in the following images. I do have Start 11 installed as well so I don't know if something could suddenly be conflicting between the 2 of them but at this point I have no idea what to do. Another major Issue I have is when applying a skin to windows file explorer it completely breaks and does not work. any advice help and if I figure something out I will follow up here.

 

windowblinds windows 11 help
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Update 1: Managed to get the skin to work again, All I did was Disable and re-enable Windows management service and then I basically spam restarted explorer using start 11

 

There is still an issue with file explorer though. It opens but none of the tabs work and this is with literally any skin except the original one. The only work around I've found is to just fully exclude file explorer from the skinning process but I would like for it to be skinned and work.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Need few more information.

  1. Windows 11 24H2 OS Build number. Please use Winver.exe. Something like screenshot below.
  2. Is the issue appear on any skin or on specific skin? Do the issue appear on WB Acrylic 7, Diamond, Arsenic etc?
  3. Please post a short video showing the issue you mentioned above.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

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