Latest Windows 10 Updates and Visual Studio 2017 Updates and now VS refuses to start unless I shut down WindowsBlinds.

Microsoft have reviewed the mini dumps and say it is an issue with fonts and agree it must be WindowsBlinds.

Can this be fixed pleased as I have to shut WindowsBlinds down everytime I want to use VS now (even with the software added to the exclusion list in advanced settings).

Microsoft response:

The bug seems to stem from a customized font that is shipped with WindowBlinds and used in some of the themes. This font causes a crash in a low-level WPF font API. If WindowBlinds allows you to revert font customizations while keeping the rest of the window chrome, that may help mitigate your issue.

Have you tried using a different theme as it sounds like if it is a 'fonts' issue then it might be a choice of system wide font exposing a bug in VS 2017.  Which theme are you using?

When you say Microsoft have reviewed the minidumps, do you mean a MSVP on public forums or an actual Microsoft developer? 

In testing here we are not having problems with VS2017 and WindowBlinds on the latest Windows 10 with the latest VS 2017 updates.

Could you try uninstalling WindowBlinds, REBOOTING (very important) and then downloading and installing the very latest version of WindowBlinds please.  It may be something went wrong in the upgrade though the usual reason for an app crash when excluded from WB would be a bug in the app itself coping with some system wide metric value (titlebar height, global fonts etc)

I provided their response in the edited post. I also forwarded the email to you.

but tomorrow I will uni stall, reboot and install again.

i am using ansaro 10 but I have tried other default themes.

will update you tomorrow.

I am sorry but I still get a crash.

I HAVE BIG PROBLEM WITH CURSOR FX...

I installed previus version and it crusches everytime when i tired to open it...

so i bought newest version 

and it goes the same way after uninstall previuss version and install the newest 

it didn't even show that something is wrong = just i try to open and nothing happens!

PLEASE HELP!

I checked here with ansaro 10 and it did crash VS 2017.  Oddly since rebooting I have not had a single crash from it though which means I cannot track the cause down any more precisely.

That skin does define custom system wide fonts but the font itself looks to be normal.

WindowBlinds does offer a way to disable the system wide fonts though.  Click on the theme you want to use in WB (but do not apply it yet), click modify style (under the apply button), click fonts and then tick the Do not apply any style system wide fonts option.  You can now apply the skin.

If the issue is a system wide font issue then regrettably there is nothing we can directly do to resolve this other than you not picking a custom font as the bug is not with WB it would be with VS2017.  Windows is told about the new font via the well documented apis specifically for this purpose, so the onus would be on them to fix their bug.

Other themes like Modern (included with WB) do not set any custom system wide fonts so if this is the issue they would work perfectly.

Unfortunately this is the thread for issues with WindowBlinds.  You would need to post this in the CursorFX group for assistance.

I have started to experience problems with Tortoise Git and and when I go to check for changes and click the commit button:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kzpp4ob90icu16v/TortoiseGit.jpg?dl=0

I am using the latest Tortoise Git and the latest Windows 10.  My skin is Dark Realm 10 Light. But I get this problem with other skins.

When the dialog first displays it looks like the attached. Then if I go to re-size the window it will immediately redraw correctly.

Please advise.

Thanks.

Spotify is driving me bonkers.  I managed to fix up Firefox by restoring the whole thing to default (under Firefox -> Troubleshooting -> Reset) and then excluding it.

However, I cannot find a way to exclude Spotify.  It's a weird app that bends the laws of physics.  I just cannot work it out.

If I find the Spotify .exe under some weird directory (C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Spotify.exe) and try to exclude it I get the error that "The file cannot be accessed by the system".. eh?

Any help appreciated...

I got issues with several apps, most notably ones using node webkit and the Lazarus IDE (latter of which makes Lazarus completely unusable since it makes component palette window glitchy making development imposible)

As I move mouse around, it really glitches out, like a broken NES game. I'm using Windows 3.11 theme to remind myself that the laptop I'm using it on is a piece of...

May I kindly ask if these issues are going to be looked at? Thank you very much.

Just to let you know that the newest version of TortoiseGit appears to render properly with Windows Blinds now.

Scratch that, any application I build with Lazarus is incompatible with WB, same stuff as shown in the screenshot above happens. I'd like if you could look into that, please.

Will there be a fix for MKVToolNix?

I reported this problem some time ago about how the window smears out when resizing the program.

Exactly same problem with qBittorrent.

We have an issue with Steam, the drop shadows from the main Steam app and all sub windows are now corrupt using any skin other Windows 10 default.  I am using the latest versions of Steam and WindowBlinds 10.

Hi i now no longer use window blinds at all windows 1803 will not even run it at all along with start 10 (i am running windows 10 pro 64 bit)

Is there an alternative to WindowsBlinds? One that is being supported because this software clearly is not any more.

WindowBlinds IS being supported.

We are working on an update.

OK, but all my emails over the months have not been replied to.

It has been half a year that Visual Studio has not worked.

Now I have difficulties with HelpNDoc and wanting the background disabled. I tried excluding the app from being skinned and doesn't work.

Then there is my original issue of bold dates on calendars that was originally fixed but now in themes doesn't show anymore.

You cannot exclude an application from system wide colour scheme changes.  I am afraid that is how Windows works.

As for the others, the VS issue is proving very troublesome to track down.

We do not offer email support anymore, it is forum only so you will not get any replies to emails.

> You cannot exclude an application from system wide colour scheme changes.  I am afraid that is how Windows works.

Then why do you have an option "exclude from skinning"?

I am using Dark Realm (Light) and the main issue I have there is that the background is not whiter for the canvas area.

You can exclude an application from a skin, but system wide colours are by definition system wide.  They are the old colour scheme that Windows since before Windows 3 has had.

Every single application will use the same set.

You can modify the skin so that colour isn't as dark as a solution.

When I unload windows blinds, the canvas background in HelpNDoc is white.

So you are telling me that even though you can tell it to not skin a application, it will still skin some of it because like it or not the base colours (of the skin) have replaced the defaults? Yet, we can tell it to use a certain skin and the choice is there for no skin.

It is frustrating that I have to keep unloading WindowsBlinds when it gets in the way of certain applications and then I have to load it backup again.