Its Funny how nostalgia can bring about completely opposite reactions. I have never used the default skins that come with WB as i find them too simple and clean, always liked Darker stuff that has a lot more going on especially with The Start Menu and Taskbar, other peeps love the revival and look of older times, each to there own though. Its the same with me for Tech Hardware, i have zero interest now in the machines of old i used to use, i do remember the Amstrad 464 and then the 6128, ages to load a game, the first using a tape deck, listening to the beeps and tones forever.

I do kind of like the taskbar image itself on the old one, maybe I'll go fishing through my archives to see if I can find it and tack a substyle onto the new version.

Life was great with Windows7 , it looked awesome and worked great. How exactly have the latest versions of Windows improved my life ??   THEY HAVEN'T     

-- Ace --

The issue with this new version is the blur on the taskbar is outside of where there are no graphics around the edges and corners. Does not look right to me.

Actually figured out the cause of it. Restarting explorer with start11 seems to trigger it. Re-applying the theme makes it go away. Though the caption buttons seem to be messed up only in stardock apps.