Thanks, Neil, I think that did the trick. My skins are working again now. That dragon's pretty cool, and it goes well (coincidentally) with my Witch-King of Angmar wallpaper from LotR: Return of the King.   

Did you get the email, Neil? I wasn't sure if I got it right.

Only problem I've seen is that my toolbar in windows is completely black. Anyone else seeing this?

Re: 'Note that the beta is for 32 bit XP and Vista systems only.'

Can I ask a dumb question about the above? Where do I check to make sure that my computer is 32 bit?

Thank you

DOGMAX with transparencies on Vista is a Dream Come True  

In Vista you can look in the Computer(My Computer) properties.

Karmat, the odds are overwhelming you're using a 32-bit OS. Right click on your My Computer/Computer icon and select Properties. On Vista, it'll explicitly mention "System Type: 32-bit Operating system" (or 64). I think XP will also indicate it in a similar fashion, but I'm not rebooting tonight to check.

You really really have to work to get a 64-bit version of Windows installed still (doesn't tend to come preloaded), so you probably are on 32-bit.

Kris

Nice Job on WB 6 -

The Animation on the Start Panel for Molten was really interesting -
(*Thought - what about adding the ability to add Widgets there ? like a clock / weather/stock ticker?)

The installation for me was just fine -

SDC had a new version - installed - restarted.

It said I had WB 5.5 and needed to uninstall - it did - rebooted - as required.

Went back to SDC and installed WB6 - didnt need to reboot -just launched WB6

Very nice

One little thing I am noticing with the Blur feature (*which is very slick on XP)
It will blur everything that is behind the Title bar - EXCEPT for Other Title Bars - so if I have 2 windows opened, one on top of the other - you can see both Titles clearly - :>?

Ditto.(start menu of Molten skin by ChaNinja for those who have not checked it out yet)

Was nice to see the new skins by Stardock Design included. Brad has been showing off Diamond for awhile now in preview shots.

i to had no problems installing the beta WB 6, as with everyone i had to uninstall WB5.5 first and be exposed to a naked windows (quite horrifying really, i am scarred for life)
but after that the install went beautifully and all is working as it should be. i love the new transparency features and can only congratulate stardock on yet another fine products (spontaneous applause)

Yep, can confirm this

order of windows in pic, from top down, Documents, My Videos, Firefox,

Any reason SDC isn't prompting for updates? I have 2.24 & it hasn't offered up an update in ages. I have it set to check & prompt in Settings. Check for Application Updates says nothing about SDC itself.

Is the currently downloadable SDC on Stardock.net the correct version?

WB 6 was working fine until I just saw another update and upgraded to 5.90[b].002 and now all I can get is Windows Aero.

Too late to edit; if only 2 windows open active window has no blur when over titlebar of inactive. If split it half and half, will have blur over toolbar icons but no blur over overlapped titlebars. With skin with transparent maxed titlebar, have one window maxed, blur is there, when max a second window, blur is gone.

5.90[b].021 worked great. With 5.90[b].022 I only get windows aero.