Bug in windowblinds - encrypted folder colour.

Published on November 28, 2008 By Nyxmorph In Stardock Support General

Hi,

Seem to have a bug in window blinds. Whenever I apply a skin to Windows Vista, I am no longer able to tell which files / folders are encrpted or compressed. Encrpyted / compressed folders should appear in green instead of black, due to the windows setting :

Folder Options -> View -> Show encrpyted or compressed NTFS file in color.

If anyone has a solution or tick box that I don't know about in window blinds to force files/folders to still show in color I would be very much obliged. Otherwise this looks like a bug.

Many thanks indeed.
Nyx.

Comments

ZubaZ

on Nov 28, 2008

Email support@stardock.com so they can feed this to a dev to look at please

Littleboy

on Nov 28, 2008

Already reported: LJZ-666823

IIRC this is an unfortunate side-effect of the way transparent explorer backgrounds are implemented. I think there is a thread somewhere where Neil explains what's happening. You might want to try to disable transparent explorer backgrounds, this should restore the colored folders for compressed/encrypted.

In my case, I also get fuzzy fonts due to Cleartype not working correctly with alpha-blended windows

Nyxmorph

on Dec 02, 2008

Many thanks for the feedback!

May I ask how to turn off transparent explorer backgrounds - cant seem to find a setting for that either!

Thanks,
Nyx.

Nyxmorph

on Dec 02, 2008

Ah, found out how you do this just if it helps other people, its not a tick box, but there is a slider.

On 'Look And Feel' -> 'Explorer backgrounds' you will find an opacity slider at the bottom. Slide it to the far right, and if you correctly position the slider right at the end, the green colour does indeed come back on encrpyted folders!

Many thanks for all your help, this was exactly what I was after.

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