Reading my new ramblings, I wonder if that is why Microsoft does not employ any themes with animated menus. Because it sounds or looks like, painting margins and animations do not alter setting when a higher dpi or viewing setting is used ,Thus screwing everything up.Where as some glyph animations might shift position slightly, would not stretch funny because it is a set size, without margins adjusting the image.Again, I have no knowledge secreted to me, just talking , or typing, out loud.DT1

What!?!

What!?!

I understood it.

you mentioned in an earlier post that the ap height shouldn't exceed 25 pixels, I was referring to that and should have been more clear in what I was referring to, sorry.

yes, I agree that the sizing was way off as well, but you'd already mentioned that.

Hey GMC, I did say that and was taught that, and it worked, so I never questioned it. But, after your post about the size allotment25-30, I did correct myself in the above post that I was wrong about why it distorted the start menu, in my defense.I am still learning, maybe slow, but am  grateful you posted that. I have never looked at any tutorials simply because I am on dial up and takes to long to load pages, usually crashes my browser. So info from these forums helps tremendously.

I still wonder what is to be gained by making the AP image taller though.

Anyway, glad you were not offended and thanks for the info.DT1

gives you a bigger arrow....

ive always made mine 30 high... must be all that non dairy creamer in your coffee bro...hehhe

Everything lined up fine after I took windows down to 100% font size. I'd changed that years ago and never thought about it. A very strange problem indeed! Next thing I'll try is going back to 125% to see if it still lines up now that the skinning is done.

-It won´t ! 

The 125% setting is making all sorts of Resizing & stretching so you " Can read " text etc better and takes no pardon to "Skinning apps" such as Windowblinds or Skinstudio"

Everyone here will tell you the same (Jafo already did)

Well, I tried it and stil the same problem so it's back to 100% for me, my old eyes will just have to squint more.

have you tried changing the start menu font size in sks?

Hi gmc2,

Thanks for chiming in.

I tried changing all the font styles back to OS Default and applied, then I changed over to 125% fonts but the same problem with miss-match was there.

I did notice something else however. I tried applying all of the skins I've downloaded and all of them line up perfect, it's just the skins I've made that hqve the miss-match and I'd sure like to find a fix for that.

Now for another problem I just came up with... it should probably be in a new post.

With my Asian Red and the new WIP I'm working on, I'm having trouble changing font color or type in just the vertical taskbar "Active Button". For even more weirdness to consider, when you unlock the taskbar, the active button changes to the new font and color but when you lock the taskbar it changes back to the original black type and size making it un-readable with my dark colored active button.

My only available workaround was to create a vertical taskbar button image and lighten up the active button so the text was readable.

All this weirdness seems to be just with my machine so I did an sfc /scannow and it did find an error and fixed it so after reboot I hoped things would be different but Noooo......

And to top it all off, all of my open program windows have been shrinking on their own after use and leaving them open. That was the main reason for sfc /scannow.

Ok, I've done enough cross-posting in this response.... I'll now go back to making my WIP.