Using Beta 9:

I don't get that at all....

Are you using any sort of ad blockers, or else is your WLM customized? What OS are you on?

Don't worry, Jon and I talked about this earlier and he fixed it. Somehow it got back again, Jon just needs to come online

Welcome back! . Well, you were the one who fixed it, I didn't have to do anything. You said you wrote 'a lot of code to fix it' and it was fixed perfectly after version 3.0.X. Still is fixed in 3.0.6. One "new" thing about this bug though is that it doesn't happen as often as it used to at all. Now it only happens like once in 30 minutes, whereas when the bug was just introduced it happened literally all the time when I opened a chat window.

You fixed it in 3.0.5 or 3.0.6 I think, not sure. It doesn't happen all the time, quite random actually though there are ways to reproduce it. It still happens if I disable the preview option.

i recently have exactly the effect but in Opera. The same black square. I believed it be an opera bug (using v10 beta) but now i read this post it makes me wonder.

The square is not related the size of the opera tab open, it's just a black square superimposed on the tab and part of the toolbar. Moving the mouse about makes highlighted items of the page loaded pop up for a second or so and then the square is back.

As it's very random it's hard to say if it doesn't happen with df disabled.

Update:

Managed to snap a snip (you have to be fast because as soon as there's redraw it disappears)
The black square has no relation to opera, the square doesn't fill the active Tab and overlaps into the taskbar but partly.

This issue is present a while now (4/5 weeks maybe), but never connected it to DF.

Awesome, thanks in advance.
PS: Did you watch the video?

Aww thanks . I couldn't be bothered to mess around with dodgy screen capturing software, so I just decided to film it instead.

Actually it was one of the ways this bug happens to me. Sometime someone says something to me, and I click the chatwindow to open it and the black bars are there. So it's not just a minimizing problem. This does not happen to me at all on the normal Windows taskbar.

I'm a software geek, always have the latest and greatest so I'm always up to date. The funny thing about all of this though is that it was completely fixed in either 3.0.5 or 3.0.6. So as a non-developer I would think this is a regression that returned after maybe fixing another thing.

me too, me too !!!!! And my black box appears out of nowhere just browsing along. Can't film it because it just happens randomly.

Was Beta 11 supposed to fix this? Because it made it kind of worse actually, I only have to minimize the chat window 2 times now to get the black bars and they appear more often now.

I'm using Windows 7 RTM 7600 x86 (with a Dutch languagepack) with the default settings, so Aero is enabled yes.

i'm using 7600 OEM x64, aero with windowblinds. DF beta 11
The black box just appeared an hour ago.

I tried also to minimize and restore. For a fraction of second i see the black box and then the window snaps into place.

If i minimize and wait for a while and maximize the blackbox doesn't show. If i minimize and restore immediately i can just see it flashing by.

Not using Windowblinds or any other graphical enhancing program. One of the ways it happens is when I left the click the window to minimize it two or three times and the black bars occur yes. It also happens only with Windows Live Messenger for me, no other programs.

Then how is it possible you actually fixed the bug in 3.0.5 or 3.0.6 and it returned again in the beta's? Would it help if I find out exactly in what version you fixed it and in what beta it returned again?

I'll get right on it. One problem though, the only DisplayFusion software setups I have on my HDD are 3.0.6 and the latest beta 11. Could you post the links for 3.0.4, 3.0.5 and Beta 1 until 11 for me here or PM them?

I don't have messenger installed, but it happens with me in Opera.
WB in 7? Question of taste. Actually i don't like the new themes at all; they're really really dull.
As soon as windows gives these http://www.wincustomize.com/zoom.aspx?skinid=6920&libid=1.....

Ok, just got back from testing. The WLM black bars bug is present in 3.0.4 but not anymore in 3.0.5 and 3.0.6. So you fixed it in 3.0.5.

Interesting - no WindowBlinds here and no mysterious black bars either - Jon, I think you're onto something (again).

Hmm, that's weird. Using beta 12 now and each time I minimize the chat window, the black bars get worse, so every time I minimize the chat window and I open it again there are more black bars. Also, I don't know if this helps but when I change my Windows 7 color scheme to Basic, the black bars look like this:

confirmed, and i'll need some time to see if the blackbox is gone. I can't create it like Domosan. (who's dutch btw Jon that explains a lot )

Wut?

we dutch are known to see things in a black light

Jon, sofar no black boxes with beta 12........

Why is Windows Live Messenger so mean to me . On a brighter note: I GOT MY DRIVER'S LICENSE TODAY! WOOHOO

Thanks! And no, this is the only one. I'm going to do a fresh Windows 7 install tomorrow again, if it's still occurring then I'll just stick to 3.0.6 forever

Absolutely, will do. Hopefully NVIDIA will release a set of new drivers soon as well.

FWIW: I am using the nVidia 190.38 drivers with my pair of GTX260s and they have just released new drivers for the Motherboards as well - 15.45 and 15.46 (depending upon upon whether you have nVidia based motherboards with on-board GPUs or not).

Also, My W7 RTM is a clean install as opposed to an upgrade - and even though you can edit a file and easily use the upgrade feature from the Beta / RC to final, I highly recommend that you clean install - playing around with apps and tweaks and whatnot will almost always leave remnants of themselves behind after uninstallation / removal, and especially when using beta and RC versions of the OS. In the long run, you'll be a lot happier with a new, fresh clean install of the OS and will have less issues down the road (well, to clarify, less issues b/c you'll have non that can be traced back to the upgrade).

I don't have an NVIDIA motherboard, waiting for new GPU drivers. And yes, I agree. I do a clean install about every 2 months, have done that for years now. I love starting fresh

So this is my setup:
windows 7600 OEM x64, NVIDIA Geforce 190.56 on a 250 GTS.
It's not Opera 10, because i reinstalled an old release version 9 and it does the same.

It's the first time though, before it was more frequent.

it just happens during a background wallpaper switch. Yes beta 12. But hey, if i'm the only one don't go chasing red herrings.

I can live with it so.....Just wait and see if anymore crop up. To me it's completed also, make us a nice wallpaper grouping box instead

Petrossa, perhaps you should stop using beta drivers and revert to the WHQL official drivers from nVidia:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_190.38_whql.html

Make that http://www.nvidia.com/object/win7_winvista_32bit_190.62_whql.html.
New set of GPU drivers released today

tnx John for the advice, but I actually changed drivers to the beta to see if the problem went away;

Downloading the 190.62 tnx Domosan for the heads up;

Gotchya. I didn't think you were using the beta drivers, and was surprised when they were listed.

@Domo - yeah, saw that a few hours later - so new drivers for all my nVidia components - time to go installing....

with latest drivers i see the black box appearing in other open windows during wallpaper update. They flash by, but essentially, the window border stays put, but inside the border a black box appears and disappears. Didn't happen with older drivers.

Would be interesting to know if this black box happens on non NVIDIA cards.

it's win 7. No problem to uninstall WB. I'll get back to you on that.

PS

Guess i'll wait a bit now see post: transitions

yep. Don't what you did there, but the redraw of the open windows is gone, and with it the black boxes...

Holy crap Jon, I don't know what you did but Beta 14 totally fixed the black bars problem for me as well as other minimizing problems . THANK YOU!