Seems you can,t.

sjmcavan at hotmail.com

Of course at=@ and no spaces

Thanks. I will be sending it in a few minutes. You can ignore my PM. I was just asking the same question.

WB Sent...

I posted this in the SkinStudio 6 Beta Feedback thread since I saw that one first.

canmandeco: Thanks for your suggestion. I tried this and it did not work. I posted this problem in the SKS6 feedback forum hoping that maybe a Stardock programmer might see it and might have a "technical" (e.g., a SKS6 bug) reason as to why I cannot get rid of the default OS shadow around the Start Panel. Anyway, thank you to you too for stopping by to help. Much appreciated!

alphabyte,

I had an issue with one of my skins being seen as a UIS1 skin by SKS5. Here's what I did to correct it (not sure if it will fix your issue but it may be worth a try)

In SKS6,clean the skin (Tools/Clean Skin), then make a WBA package (File/Make WBA Package), switch to a different skin in WBconfig, then delete your problem skin in WBconfig, then find the WBA package that was created earlier and doubleclick it.

This will put your skin back into WBconfig; change to that skin and then try the settings as noted above to turn off the shadow.

I had put in a support ticket for the above problem, but was told SKS5 wouldn't be developed any longer (although it was SKS6 that apparently changed my skin to a UIS1) so there was never any investigation into why SKS6 'made' my skin into a UIS1.

2of3: Will post a solution here, if I can ever find one. Thanks!


pictoratus: Thanks for this suggestion. I will try it out and post later tonight what happens in my case. Thanks again for all your help!


IR: I will try your suggestion as well. I will post later tonight what happens with this approach. I don't mind the extra work, especially since this will give me more practice with Skin Studio in general (and I certainly could use the practice). Thanks for all your help as well. Much appreciated!

IR: Thank you for your suggestion. As you can see from the screenshot below, it worked! I guess Skin Studio 5 is the better way to go when starting a WB. Thank you again for all your help and for taking time out for a newbie like me. Your assistance was very appreciated!

Cavan1: Thank you to you too, for all your help!

SKS6 for Vista...5 for XP.  

yayyyyyyyyy fixxxed!!

It was nice reading how everyone was willing to help out - Priceless!

I'm sure many other people will benefit from the help provided in this thread.

It is sadden me that Robbie_Boy did not find it worthy to share how he/she managed to solve his/her problem. Take it to the grave Not right!


Beside that I'm very pleased

Everyone is correct but here is the problem sks 5 &6 both make back up files

So disable the feature in 6 HideShadows=0

save and apply

Now go to the windowblinds folder for this skin open the folder (set veiw to thumbnails)you will find a file called XPStuff.xp(it will have a skinstudio icon)

this is your good file

now you will find another file XPStuff.xp~ (it will look just like a normal file folder the squiggley line denotes a copy)

now delete the XPStuff.xp~

now open in SKS5 and enable(HideShadows=1)

save and apply

it will be gone ,open in SKS6 and continue building

Note when you start a skin if you start in 5 make this your first change save and apply then open in 6 you wont have this problem again!

It can be done in note pad but I recomend this way unless you are comfortale directly editing code!

 

Note there could be more than 1 backup of this file if so delete all XPStuff.xp~ (it will look just like a normal file folder the squiggley line denotes a copy)

you only need the 1 with the SKS icon w/o the squiggley line

This will work I am sure !

Avman this seems quite a thorough fix to the problem - though i havent tested it as mine works now - Is Skin studio 5 still easy enough to find?

Is there a sticky for all these weird little problems and their solutions?