Hey so I'm using just the Aero LoRes theme but decided to switch out my shelf for something else, and now the collapsed shelf is sitting just a couple pixels above my start bar and so I was wondering if there is a value somewhere in the theme files that I can edit to lower my shelf so that it matches up with the start bar... Any help would be appreciated...

Hi Spixo!

Not sure what you mean by 'switch out my shelf for something else' but what you are describing usually has something to do with the 'reserved screen space', i.e.; the area at the edges of the screen that is never covered up by maximized windows.

If re-starting Winstep Xtreme does not solve the problem, then:

1 - Open the Global Settings tab of NextSTART Preferences. In the Reserved Screen Space section make sure all four edges are set to zero.

2 - If the above doesn't do it either, temporarily disable NextSTART Task Management (Main NextSTART menu -> Settings -> Toggle NS Task Management) to make the Windows startbar visible again. An invisible Windows startbar is still reserving screen space never-the-less, so you might need to re-size it down and then re-enable NextSTART Task Management to solve the problem.

Let me know how it went.

Thanks for your help. It was just that my regular windows start bar was reserving screen space causing my shelf to float 4 or 5 pixels above my visible start var.