Even stays on the desktop with IE minimized. And the bad part is, I don't have to hover over the topic to get this popup. All I need to do is have my cursor pass over it. It happens on it's own.

Help....

Oh and another thing with 8.1 the laptop took a long time to boot up. Now that I went back to 8 it boots real fast.

Looks like they will have to look into it at WC, doing it here too on Windows 8.1. Coding change time!

For the record, putting WC in compatibility view fixes the popup problem, but brings back double previews.

We beta test for Stardock, don't we? I have run every Windows OS beta/preview since XP. Nothing wrong with using a new release OS and sharing your findings, it actually can help with development.

Some of us haven't abandoned 7, but dual boot with 8/8.1.

OK, so incorrectly rendered reflections, you say. Why don't they exist in IE9? 

Either way, you say tomato, I say tomahto.

Well, most of the people that frequent these forums do use Stardock software.

You "Beta test" everything you use, every day.

There's no 'end product' until a program is abandoned. Updates/fixes/patches only mean RTM is a slightly more finished Beta.

I see no point in supporting an OS which is inconvenient to use. Next? W9 - can only be used standing on your head, singing its praises while deluding yourself you're in New Zealand.

OS's are meant to make computing easy and productive. W8/8.1 do neither until altered to look and work like W7. For MS, it seems success means going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm (W. Churchill)...and there's something ineffably sad about that.

I suppose, Jim. I doubt anyone could sell enough skins to compensate for the cost of looking and using that OS.

For me, it's crap to be avoided. I wouldn't have it were they giving it away.

Having done both an upgrade to and a clean install of 8.1, I think it is safe to say that most of the issues people are having (slow boot times, problems on the internet, programs no longer working) are simply due to the upgrade process and not W8.1 itself...these problems aren't a whole lot different than when people upgraded to vista or 7 and suddenly had problems cropping up out of nowhere...

As with any OS, clean installs are the only way to ensure stability....

Btw, I do not experience this problem on the forums, even if coming from wincustomize...I really don't think it is an inherent problem with 8.1 or IE 11....

I would also report that with IE 11, it seems when I reply/post in the WC forums, I type my text, then try to add a screen shot, the screen shot goes first, and forces the text down. Then I have to manually move the pic down and move the text back up.

Anyone who hates SAAB is a blithering idiot....

Bigger question here:

Why are you all using IE11 instead of Chrome? Even Firefox.