Hey all!
I've been a Stardock / Object Desktop user since 2007. I've had great experiences with most of the suite since the beginning. I use WindowsFX, Fences - Fences 6, Start11v2 and all of its previous iterations, DeskScapes, Multiplicity, ObjectDock and WindowsBlinds off and on (more on that coming) on a regular basis and have them installed on my daily driver Windows install (currently Windows 11 Version Build 26100). Somewhere along the lines, WindowsBlinds has become one I just don't install anymore because it just regularly crashes my system. Windows 8 maybe? Windows 7? I'm not sure. But it's super frustrating. I just installed it again, once again hoping that it would be working good, and still I cannot even use chrome and/or Firefox because it makes them unusable -- and has been since as I mentioned before Windows 8 maybe. It's not hardware related because I've built 3 different systems along the way, with various graphics cards and processors and it's always the same results.
If I load up chrome, and go to any website with video, my whole browser flashes 3-4 times and the video errors out. YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, anything. I've tried different styles, including only using the StarDock supplied styles with the initial install and always get the same behavior.
Is WindowsBlinds just a thing of the past? Trying to search chrome here on the forums there seems to be conflicting information on how to even skin it and whether its even skinnable anymore. Some mods saying Chrome isn't skinnable at all in Windows 11, but the StarDock official website lists a "workaround" that seems to do absolutely nothing.
My current hardware:
Asus ROG Strix X670e-e
AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3D
Gigabyte RTX 4090 Xtreme Waterforce
32gb G.SKILL 6400C32 RGB
Samsung 32" Odyssey Neo G8k
Am I doing something wrong or is WindowsBlinds just a fond memory of windows past?