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WindowsBlinds stopped skinning Chrome

By gevansmd on September 5, 2015 9:58:12 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

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Chrome froze last night and after a reboot, if I use any skin besides plain Aero, the titlebar is invisible.  Unless an update was installed after the reboot I don't understand how it could have changed.  I now have Chrome on the per app restriction list.  Anyone else see this happen recently?

 

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.  Here is the Wb info dump:

 

Windows 7 Ultimate (7601.win7sp1_gdr.150715-0600)
WindowBlinds 8.06 (029 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

Wblind.dll 2014/07/16 08:42:ll
Wblind64.dll 2014/07/16 08:42:49
Wbsrv.dll 2014/07/16 08:42:48
WB8Config.exe 2015/04/21 11:40:09
Wbload.dll 2014/07/16 08:42:43
Screen.exe 2015/04/01 13:36:08

 

 

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gevansmd
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September 7, 2015 2:12:33 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I guess no one else is seeing this.  I'll try to un/reinstall WB and see what happens.

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gevansmd
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September 7, 2015 3:12:14 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Reinstalling did not solve the problem. 

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AceMatrix
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September 7, 2015 7:05:35 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

This has been an issue for many people for a very long time , including myself. I use the Chrome Background Theme application to solve the invisible titlebar issue.     -- Ace --

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gevansmd
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September 7, 2015 12:44:01 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Can you explain?  You create your own theme that doesn't skin the min/max/close button area?

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AceMatrix
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September 7, 2015 3:24:41 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

At the right of the address bar are those 3 little horizontal lines , that is the "Customize and control Google Chrome" button. Click on it. In the drop down menu, select "Settings" then go to "Appearance" and click on the button labeled "Get Themes" A page will open that you can scroll through hundreds of themes that will automatically skin the Titlebar and fix the invisibility problem. When I change my Windowblind theme, I scroll through the Google Chrome themes and try to pick out a theme that will closely match or at least compliment the Windowblinds theme I am currently using.    -- Ace --

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gevansmd
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September 7, 2015 4:35:06 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Ok, thanks.  Your last sentence actually answered my question.  I'm happy to use a google theme again for now.

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Neil Banfield
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September 7, 2015 6:47:13 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

Why are you using an old version of WindowBlinds?

Has it not been prompting for an update since about March?

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gevansmd
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September 8, 2015 1:23:40 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

No, I have downloaded other updates but there has been no notice about WB. I manually grabbed 8.23, the latest version on my download list. Do you know if that's the latest?

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Island Dog
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September 9, 2015 11:28:23 AM from Galactic Civilizations III Forums Galactic Civilizations III Forums

I believe 8.12 is the latest WindowBlinds version.

 

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The_Gear
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September 9, 2015 11:36:52 AM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

If that's what you obtained from your My Downloads page, then yes it's the most recent.

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Wizard1956
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September 9, 2015 11:40:28 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting Island Dog,
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I believe 8.12 is the latest WindowBlinds version.

 
That's what I see in my list. No 8.23 there for me.

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Uvah
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September 12, 2015 12:53:30 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I didn't see any 8.23

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LightStar
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September 12, 2015 1:09:18 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Quoting Uvah,
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I didn't see any 8.23

 

Because there is no 8.23, 8.12 is the latest version of Windowblinds. 

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gevansmd
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September 12, 2015 9:00:40 PM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

Hi LightStar, you're a pro-level WindowsBlind skinner.  Do your blinds skin Chrome?  Wb used to work for me and then after a reboot it no longer skins Chrome properly.

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Uvah
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September 14, 2015 6:34:52 AM from WinCustomize Forums WinCustomize Forums

I believe it came from the latest build of Chrome. Because before that Chrome was skinned nicely. I posted a screenshot that shows that.

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