Disabling Fences (a Stardock application) kinda messes up wallpaper engine

[JaxXz]

disabling it removes the wallpaper from visibility, but if the wallpaper has sound it will continue to play, the wallpaper becomes visible again once Fences is re-enabled.

[Biohazard]

You may be able to avoid it by setting the Windows background to solid black (unless you did that already). Since you continue hearing the audio, I presume the window of Wallpaper Engine is not closed but rather that they draw the default wallpaper on top.

[JaxXz]

Publicado originalmente por Biohazard:

You may be able to avoid it by setting the Windows background to solid black (unless you did that already). Since you continue hearing the audio, I presume the window of Wallpaper Engine is not closed but rather that they draw the default wallpaper on top.

will try that

[JaxXz]

set it to solid black with windows background option "solid color" it produces the same results.

[Biohazard]

Maybe just using the "recent wallpapers" feature and reloading the last one allows it to be restored? Does it work at all again if you restart Wallpaper Engine completely in that state?

[JaxXz]

Publicado originalmente por Biohazard:

Maybe just using the "recent wallpapers" feature and reloading the last one allows it to be restored? Does it work at all again if you restart Wallpaper Engine completely in that state?

restarting wallpaper engine does not it fix it

[Biohazard]

You can restart explorer.exe in the task manager, that's about all I can offer. I would suggest asking on their forums, they are also on Steam I think.

The issue is that you cannot actually close Fences. Even if you disable it, it will keep 3 DLLs loaded into explorer.exe (one of them for the context menu). So I presume the window containing the icons is not translucent as it would be otherwise.

[JaxXz]

Publicado originalmente por Biohazard:

You can restart explorer.exe in the task manager, that's about all I can offer. I would suggest asking on their forums, they are also on Steam I think.

The issue is that you cannot actually close Fences. Even if you disable it, it will keep 3 DLLs loaded into explorer.exe (one of them for the context menu). So I presume the window containing the icons is not translucent as it would be otherwise.

restarting the explorer works