It isnt a matter of comfort. It's a matter of me telling you the issues I experienced with the Beta software, what was required to fix it, and then being told that disabling the app solves the problem. It did NOT solve the problem this time. I'll install again and see if the same occurs.

If anyone does have problems with a window not showing up correctly when disable all the animation settings for now.  We have had reports of a small issue with those not being happy with a few select applications and the next beta should hopefully address those.

Also known is flicking a window to another screen may not send it far enough (or too far) if you have very different width monitors.  This has been resolved internally.

Ok, I re-installed. This time it did work as you said it would. The first time it did NOT.

Turning off animations also fixes the issue. Hopefully that will be fixed as it is one of the prime cool features of FX.

Thank you for your excellent explanation Neil.  *If it prevents people with UAC running from having problems I can live with it. (I can always blame MS)

*Yet another reason why I highly dislike UAC

Overall, I like the look of the UI and what I've tried so far looks good. 

If you do want to stop it you can manually stop the Stardock WindowFX service and next time you reboot you will not have any processes for WindowFX.  To turn it back on you would need to restart the service.

It may be Outlook didn't actually properly close (due to being confused with an invisible window) and so when you reopened it you just got the same process.  Outlook does like to reuse windows and processes.

This is just beta 1 so it was expected there may be some rough edges with animations.  The plan is to take the feedback on the issues with them and then resolve the problem (I suspect it is a single issue that impacts apps which are doing something in a specific way) and add in a few more options too including a random option.

It would be very useful to know which of the animation types (Open / close / min / restore) is causing the problem.  Each of the individual animations should be identical, so this is just the overall class of animation controlled by the checkboxes thats important.

The photoshop thing goes to normal if I disable WinFX.

The right click thing has remained even after uninstalling WinFX. But I do know it started after installing WinFX.

WOW - what a cool surprise for this Halloween weekend!

I have installed (had to manually enter email and code uggg) , but after that all seems VERY good so far.

LOVE the new fade out background windws feature. Looking forward to more open/close animations too.

Thanks!!!!

Are you sure you didn't update something else around the same time?  Say intel video drivers (known for making right click menu slow)

WindowFX is very self contained and only has files in two folders and only writes to its own registry keys.  Once uninstalled there should be nothing left to cause any problems.

Using Windows 7 Pro 64bit, so far FX4 Beta is working well. I love the inactive window feature! 

Positive....  and I have nVidia gfx. Well...there were some windows updates, I think.

Neil, I have discovered that my graphics driver wasn't installed correctly and that was the problem with my context menu. Nothing to do with WinFX. I am sorry.

Still the thing with photoshop exists. Maybe we could get an exclusion list option, like with WB7?

I'll wait for the final release. WindowFX is way to slick to fool with. I remember having an old version on my emachine and it gave it the willies. But that may have been my fooling around with all the effects one after another.

Works great on my Vista machine. My laptop with Win 7 takes a long time coming out of hibernation so I had to turn it off. Nice work anyways.

XPHomeSP3 with MSExcel version 2003 (current patches)  I know, old o/s and ancient app, just throwing it out here in case it's useful.

EDIT:  ***Only seems to be happening with Windowblinds running.  Tried it with Gloss Black loaded and Polaris loaded, crashes on both.  Doesn't crash after unloading Windowblinds via systray unload.

Crashes Excel:

Enable WinFX4 Config HomeTab "Add additional options to the window right click menu".

Go to Excel window titlebar right-click menu "Window maximizing control".

Select anything other than "Always maximize to normal size".

Causes Excel to crash when clicking on the Excel window maximize button to execute the alternate maximized size. (crashes hard, exel.exe process just disappears from task manager)

Double-clicking on Excel window borders to resize works fine.  Right-click "Window size control" resizing works fine.  No animations enabled (XP).

Liking it in general.  Resizing enhancements are quite handy. Multi-monitor flash video fullscreen control in itself is worth having it installed.