i sent something to stardock support and than gave them my info on my system

 

So no luck on redoing that skin bhast23?

That would rule out me and perhaps others  from ever using it. As a  user of Winstep Workshelf and former ODPlus user, I can tell you that such an arrangement leaves a rather ugly gap between the taskbar and whatever is docked above it.

no it still doesn't work right.

I did a fresh install of Win8 and still the same issue

I have stardock support looking in to it 

I hope they figure something out

 

Me too, I like your skinning ideas!

 

Thank you 

Means alot coming from someone with your talent 

SKS 7.95 does not run on my Windows 7 at all, nothing happens when I click the executable.  The prior release did run on Windows 7.  Also, why would it show up as an upgrade in SDC and then install itself to a different location than where SKS 7.3 was installed to?

Have you tried finding the exe and directly running it?

 

Of course, same results Neil. It works fine on Windows 8 though, just Windows 7 is having the issue.

I am having the same problem on my Win7 machine just like LightStar

 

In my experience the show desktop button should never be wider than 15 pixels for a single state. I find that a total canvas width of 45 pixels is pretty much the best you can have without weird distortion happening. Try side by side states rather than stacked too.

 

An example of one of my typical show desktop button:

SkinStudio is missing the section for the classic progress bar, aka the [Progress] section.  When creating my skin, I had to manually add the section in Notepad.

Why are you trying to add that section?  It is obsolete and has been for a very long time.

The show desktop section is build up with "three images" if you use one and dont change the value it will take parts of the skin you are building your skin on.
there should be also a box that says "image count 3" ( look at the screenshot ) 

ALso make sure that the alpha channel is premultiplied is - not checked

Then go under extra tab and set " blend against taskbar " to enabled ( if the image has transparency )

Edit: in Windows8 you will only see it if you click it ( normal and mouseover do nothing )
 

The "edit in SKS" button in WB Config opens a web page to download SKS.