I'll watch for it now, but again, WSB hasn't crashed, not even once, that's why I reported that.
I only opened 3 themes (including Aero), test them, do some small modifications on only 1, but 5 msstyles were made in that folder. And I only use WSB normally, by changing and testing the theme, saving, and closing.

I've done it again during the evening, I've only opened one theme, again, simply modifying testing, saving, and closing WSB, and I now have 6 msstyles based on my theme (they all begins with the name of my theme (Project_101). And WSB did not crash, again, and was closed normally.

Quick update, after some small tests, WSB had not crashed once since my reinstall (I don't have the time to work a lot with it though), and yet there was 5 msstyles in C:\ProgramData\Windows Style Builder\Testing ... So I can't imagine how it was before ^^

Thanks for the feedback

Uxstyle doesn't patch any files and runs as a service to bypass the theme digital signature and should not cause any black screen bug, I have never had a problem with the black screen bug since I started using it when it first became available, your problem would probably be from saving your theme and applying it from outside the C:\Windows\Resources\Themes directory or you are mistaken and have used another patching program that does rely on patching system files to allow custom themes.

you are still able to retrieve your latest changes in the C:\ProgramData\Windows Style Builder\Testing directory.

I wasn't using Uxstyle, I was using UltraUXthemePatcher.
I only used Uxstyle more than a year ago but I was also not using WSB at that time, and I changed my hard drive in the meantime, and only used UltraUXthemepatcher after that.

I have never installed an .msstyle out of the Windows\Resources\Theme folder. But aren't you saying that WSB creates a backup file outside of this folder when testing ? Couldn't that be the reason of the problem ? After some crash of WSB, maybe Windows 8 starts using the theme inside that tesitng folder instead, and that would cause the black screen bug ? I don't know, I'm just speculating based on everything I read on the subject ^^
On my last black screen, using my Ubuntu usb stick, I deleted all I could find of WSB from my hard drive but I did not touch the C:\ProgramData\Windows Style Builder\Testing directory because I wasn't aware of that... but maybe Windows would have tried to use Aero again if I had deleted all that too ?

Oh I just find out that I wasn't using UXTheme before but UXStyle... I mingled the UXsomething

[Panda X]

Panda X, I always save my theme in the default windows folder (...\Windows\Resources\Themes).
On my previous black screen, all I did was a recovery before WSB was installed, yet UltraUX was still installed and the last version of my theme too, and then Windows started normally again. That's why I strongly assumed it came from WSB.

My WSB also blank every 20-30mn depending on how active I am with it (the elements in the window become white when I hover over them, I can't do anything, I can just kill the process). And sometimes it just crashes out of nowhere when I try to test. I can then restart, do the exact same changes, test again, and it will work. And this is why I call for stability ^^

YourNumbr1Fan, I used UXTheme before UltraUX, but at some point it had a compatibility issue with a Windows update, that's why I changed to UltraUX, but I'll give it another shot.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hi there,

So, I had a black screen issue yesterday, Windows refused to start again, I could see the pointer when I moved it but nothing else. And on top of that, Windows screwed up the recovery, so I was not able to go back in time. So, after 2 hours going in circle, I simply format the Windows/software partition and installed everything again...
But of course this is something I'd like to avoid as much as possible, spending hours installing and downloading everything again, including loosing some of the personal preferences inside some softwares like Photoshop is not something I want everyday especially on an SSD where you try to avoid writing ^^'

Now, I'm aware this can come from different things, WSB, depending on the version and how we use it, or UltraUXThemePatcher, or I don't know. And that's my point. I'm not sure where that came from but I sure would like to avoid it in the future and make things more stable at every level, so I'd like to gather informations in one post (I haven't seen one until now, so if it already exist then I'm terribly sorry ^^), and hopefully help others in the process.

Until now I learned to "never click "Use the Visual Style" in 8. I let WSB compile it and then apply it by clicking my .theme file or through Personalization." from 3am.

Also, in case something like that happen, I always have a Ubuntu (or Elementary) on a usb stick in order to access my files. But it there some way, some files to delete, or to replace with a backup, or I don't know... that could help Windows start again? Maybe WSB creates a .theme somewhere which is the cause of the problem, and deleting it would help Windows starts with Aero?

Last time I had the problem, I had to use the recovery and go back to the time before WSB was even installed and it worked pretty well and I didn't lose much.
But again, yesterday for an unknown reason, the first time I tried it didn't work, so I tried again to go further in the past, but then Windows recovery couldn't find anything anymore...
I also remember having the issue some time ago, but it was a problem between a Windows update and UxStyle. And I think the only thing I did then was to move my personal .theme, and Windows was able to start using Aero as default.

Finally, is there a version of WSB that is known to be more stable than others ? I'm not sure that this exist for Windows 8.1.1, but you never know ^^

Of course if there's anything that could help in this topic, please share your knowledge and experience, and how you fixed the problem if you encountered it.

Thank you very much for the quick answer, and you were right

This helps a lot, thanks again

Hi there

I've been looking everywhere but I really can't find where this white line (it's actually light grey : #dbdbdb) can be changed. It also seems that it appears like that in other themes I've tried..
Any idea ?

As you can see the theme is pretty dark and this bright line between the elements hurts a bit ^^



(original theme : http://nittiyh.deviantart.com/art/Nautilus-for-Windows-7-387306532 )

And while I'm on the questions, It's not possible to change the arrow and refresh glyph on the right of the address bar, right ?
I've also noticed some black text (for the details view for example that I can't change, it's normal ?)

(It's an 8.1.1 theme with WSB 1.5.6.2)