I haven't seen a problem with missing buttons. Can you post a screenshot so I can try to reproduce it? Found it. I used emergedesktop as shell. With explorer as shell the window buttons and programicon is shown with maximized windows. But with explorer as shell there is always cpu at 100%, although i deactivated all other programs incl antivirus! Perhaps it is because of my old computer (Pentium III, 512mb and IBM grafics onboard with Windows 2000) I thought I could replace truetransparency with smoothtext to skin also buttons etc. Screenshot: Emergedesktop with Rainmeter/Rainlendar/Truetransparency,GDI++,Antivir (gives a processor load of about 30%)