I am using the Win8 Theme included in windowblinds. (With the metro style start button) Chrome has no themes. It seems the issue went away after reapplying the skin.

The start menu(startisback original start menu) gets cropped to only show the bottom left area and the user picture. It happens with all windowblinds skins.

Also another issue popped up. Some Java Applications dont skin properly as well. They go into classic mode

Here are a few bugs one in VUE and one it the top buttons not lining up correctly. The skin I'm using is win8 Metro that came with WindowBlinds 7.90 and 7.91

This is VUE their is a line that runs through the top of the window.

This one happens on all windows the top right hand buttons in all windows are out of alignment.

my system specs.

Windows 8 pro 64bit

Intel mainboard:DZ77GA-70K   

 CPU:Intel I7-3770K

GPU:EVGA GeForce GTX 670 FTW Driver Version 320.18

I'm using windows 8 built in antivirus and firewall.

Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster P2770

After updating this morning to the new beta Transparency works 
Even chrome gets skinned nicely... just one tiny thing to throw in there is when you maximize the chrome window
one frame ( left or right frame will reach the second monitor ) if placed on the first monitor the right ( second in this case ) will have a white line on it - if the chrome window is maxed on the "right secondary monitor the same will happen on the first monitor and a line will be visable.
But i can live with that over a non transparent taskbar
 
this happens on 1920x1080 dont know if it does on other resolutions  

Windows8-x64 pro Systembuilder 
Norton AV
screenshots included below
Skin : doesnt matter they all show it

Edit: was in rush earlier so i couldnt make a screenshot thingy also that line isnt grey it is transparent looked grey on that backgorund

I ran the tool and submitted the file to support under ticket #WDN-346-83412

I read earlier that was intended Michael, they figured a user would want the start button that came with the skin and disabled that function in Start8.

Update: The latest Beta build restored Taskbar transparency on my Surface Pro, but not on my desktop system.

Currently seeing "WindowsBlinds does not appear to be installed correctly on your machine.  Would you like to try to fix this issue now?"

Using Avira Internet Security (NOT using ESET)

Using Windows 8 with all latest updates as of 1-jun-2013.

The Windows instance was a fresh install as of 15th-may-2013. No conflicting desktop/video/theming products are installed.

Only additional Stardock product installed is Start8 which is still in operation.

WbCore.exe exists and the Stardock WindowBlinds service is runing.

WindowBlinds 7.90 initially installed, and worked as expected, used one theme and never changed it. Restarted just now and this error is evident, there is no equal to HIPS (Host Based Intrusion Prevention) control in Avira as far as I'm aware. If I'm wrong I'd gladly add an exception to directories/files to avoid this issue.

I have tried a complete uninstall including removal of the .bin file in ProgramData. Reinstalled using version 7.91 it was still aware of the previous skin (is this in a registry entry not removed on an uninstall?) but would not apply it (or any skin) at all, each time resulting in the same prompt to "fix the issue". I've tested this on two systems very equal, minimal, and from scratch installations of Windows both with Avira IS (differing only in a few hardware/driver details, AMD 790X vs 990FX, Intel 520 vs Samsung Pro 840)

I can't be sure but seem to remember restarting and seeing it working at one point but possibly before Avira had eyes on it. So I take it this particular product may have been flagged by Avira as overly "intrusive"?

Anyway, great product, look forward to hearing back from you and seeing the product running again.

After some fiddling around with Avira where it seemed perfectly happy with WB, it seems the issue occurs if you do a shutdown vs a reboot.  If you do that WB stops working until you reboot again at which point it returned to being happy until the next shutdown.

I quickly investigated this as compatibility with AV apps is naturally important to us, and it looks like the issue is caused by a system with Avira being in an unexpected state on a clean boot vs a reboot in Windows 8.  It looks like we have a fix for this which is good news so I imagine the next build will contain this.

Thanks for reporting this.

Hmm, you guys should try Windowblinds skins with with 150% font scaling (and "XP-style" disabled) applied.  That is, use the OS native font scaling, not anything in Windowblinds.

Windowblinds declares itself DPI-aware, yet fails to perform any scaling.  The result is that things are tiny and/or cut off in weird places.

It might be good to have some of your own developers use the Surface Pro, so you're certain to see these scaling issues yourselves.

Here's a screenshot with the Diamond theme on Windows 8, with Start8 installed:

http://picpaste.com/diamond-NM8Tz1Qg.png

Here's a screenshot with the stock Windows 8 theme (also with Start8):

http://picpaste.com/stock-krbsLAdB.png

Here's a screenshot with the Corporate theme:

http://picpaste.com/corporate-p3KQqr0E.png

EDIT: I suppose I should've stated more clearly: the WindowBlinds UI itself is dpi-aware, but the application of themes is not.  That's where the problem is -- things are too small, or get cut off weirdly.

Update: Confirmed re-applying skin resolved Taskbar Transparency on the Desktop system. Thank You, Sir!

Here's are some screenshots of some issues:

and in Search Mode...

Hope they can be fixed.

Oh, and take a look at the menu bar text mouse over and favorites menu in IE10 on Windows 8, they do not do that in Windows 7 and IE10.