Task Pane Gone

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I got a skin recently called experimental which looks cool! however the task panel disappears when i load the skin for some reason, its a pain with out the task panel and i was wondering how i could fix it in skin studio or something. the task panel shows up fine on the preview in skin studio but once the skin is on the task panel disappears, can anyone help me? please reply and i can give you a copy of the skin to look at.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Screenshot would help and a link to the skin.
TouchTasks - Access tasks with ease on Windows touchscreens.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The skin looks fine. Are you or have you installed any other software that may have messed up things on your system?
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
the task pane shows up in your windows? I just now tried to redownload, and put up the skin again but it failed to give me a task pane.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Doesn't look fine here... I deleted the shellstyle.xps and re-imported a background for the shell.. Now the shellstyle shows up.. I would delete the .xps and rebuild it, shouldn't take long.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I loaded the skin up here and do see a few problems with it. One such being that the task panel, in fact, does not load.

You may want to inform the skin author in their page in the gallery.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Oops didint realize it isnt your skin, It's AVman's.... yes inform him. There is some errant code in his .xps.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
how do you do that exactly, i've changed small things in the skin but i don't know how to re-import a background for the shell
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I only originally looked at the skin in SKS. After applying I dont have the task panes either. XPS file is corrupt.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'd choose another skin Strife.. there are thousand's in the WB gallery with FAR less errors.
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
how do you get the right .xps file? I am really attached to this skin, and i just wanna know how to get the task pane to show up, if i have to learn to do something, then i'll learn, but i wanna keep this skin. so do you have to program write the .xps file yourself or do you have to find it somewhere, the other errors on the skin don't bother me at all, i just need the dang task pane.
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
open all the shell images from SKS into a grapic editor.. and save them.. the go to the WB folder.. and delete shellstyle.xps Then simply open the skin again in SKS and reimport all the images you previously saved and SKS will write a new .xps for you.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
thanks for the help, i wouldn't have been able to do anything without your advice, i'll try and make a new theme out of this one so that this one works completely, and by the way SKS means the skin studio right? what kind of graphic editor do you suggest? is there a good free one or just use paintshop?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes Skinstudio, as far as Gfx.. all I have ever used is Photoshop.
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
for fixing the task pane do you take out all the shellstyle.xps files, there are multiple ones in the folder, cause well i just tried to fix it but it didn't work, so i'm gonna try again, its annoying me to no end!! lol
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
theres only 1 shellstyle.xps... delete it from the WB's folder... and start re-importing the images.. SKS will automatically create a new .xps file.
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
ya should i not worry about the shellstyle~.xps? sides that i reimported all the xp shell things or should i just reimport the entire skin piece by piece? and then afterward i should i just apply the skin again to check the task panel? I'm sorry that i'm so bad at this, i just wanna learn how to do this so i can start making my own, i'm gonna use this as a stepping stone.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes that's how to do it, delete that .xps too, its just a backup, start with a clean slate , import images one by one, set your text colors and mousovers and save, apply and check ur panel, start easy with the background panel.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WOW, i'm dumb, the thing isn't broken, really, just the transluceny switch on all the up/down buttons in the xps shell are enabled, just turn off the switch and the task pane shows up fine! i feel really dumb about it, but the skin works fine!
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Man that was a while back I almost forgot about that skin!That was my second skin!

vStyler & NightTrain thanks for trying to help ,when I built this thing I was just learning sks!

I'd choose another skin Strife.. there are thousand's in the WB gallery with FAR less errors.


As bad as I hate to admit it vStyler is probably right there are a lot of skins that are just more correct!This was exactly what it said "EXPERIMENTAL"

Anyway thanks for trying it.
the A/V Man