That does not sound like anything WindowBlinds should be causing as it does not contain code to alter the screen brightness.

WB 7.3 is ignoring the per application "ignore" settings.  I turned it off for Excel 2010 because of the statement that it had better support for Office 2010.  It was worse.  So I turned ignore back on and it's still causing problems.  All my grid lines are invisible so the entire spreadsheet, even a blank one looks like it's on plain white paper.  Toggling the gridlines on and off does nothing.  Ignore is also failing for cmd.exe.

Guess I'me reverting back to the previous version when I get a chance.

I didn't do that at all. I simply installed 7.3 overtop of the last beta and rebooted. Worked just fine.

SOrry for the moronic question, but I just purchased WB about 5 weeks ago, was running the beta, but when I go to About WindowBlinds, in the config, it reads windowblinds 7.3 build 307. Is that the correct one, or am I missing how to update to newest one?

I have just renewed my Object Desktop subscription and i dont see anywhere in my account downloads a link for Window Blinds 7.3 the latest one there is 5.5 i have window blinds 7.2 currently installed which i used to update through impulse but i can no longer use impulse now can anyone tell me how the get the link for 7.3.

Try it at the Stardock Store. Login there and check your account if you haven't already.

It occurs to me to ask you to post a screenshot.  Some monitors have terrible rendering of light colours and so off white and white look identical and in some themes the line colour and the document colour may be closer than in others.

https://store.stardock.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=/myaccount/products 

i'm still having the issue of all transparency gone after a reboot. it doesn't matter what skin i use. if it has transparency, it's gone after a reboot. i always have to reapply the skin. all drivers are up to date.

on another note, whatever happened to greenreaper?

Just updated with impulse. After restart a WB DLL problem appears in a window. Windowsblind icon in tne tray was not working. Problems appear with some programs (not from Stardock). I tried to roll back with Impulse on an older WB but it failled. I rolled back (by windows restore) and every thing is OK. This new version seems to have some problems. Be careful before installing ...

OK, today comes a new update, but the problem with deskscapes3 is not gone.

Roll back to WB 7.2 and it works perfect, why not with WB 7.3 ?

If Deskscapes stops then typically a wallpaper has been applied.

Deskscapes stops and applies the dream you were running as a wall. Deskscapes does not pause, it stops and is no longer running. Right clicking does not give the resume link, and the pause link is greyed out. 

Yeah, that´s it, but with WB 7.2 i can apply a WBskin and Deskscapes don´t stop.