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WINDOWBLINDS BETA FOR VISTA ARRIVES!

Get Object Desktop, get WindowBlinds for Vista

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November 15, 2006 9:34:25 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums

For Vista is now available on Object Desktop.

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Rejoice!

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Reply #1 November 15, 2006 10:14:48 PM
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Just installed on Vista Build 5744 looking great!!!!!

Thanks
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Reply #2 November 15, 2006 10:57:32 PM
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Thank You Jesus...(and Stardock!)
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Reply #3 November 15, 2006 11:20:46 PM
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Ok...you can't see it but I am doing a happy dance. Too bad that I am still at work for another 2 hours.
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Reply #4 November 15, 2006 11:22:55 PM
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Jafo rushes off to give it a go...
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Reply #5 November 15, 2006 11:24:47 PM
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Orion rushes off to bed so I can give it a go when I get to work in the morning.
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Reply #6 November 15, 2006 11:26:30 PM
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So WindowBlinds 5.49 is only for Pc's that have Vista installed? So if that is true it looks like if you don't have a vista machine you won't be doing any WindowBlind updates. I would think these WindowBlind versions are going to get installed on the wrong pc's. (My old Inspiron laptop won't be able to run Vista darn it!)
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Reply #7 November 15, 2006 11:28:59 PM
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I have 5.49 Running on a xp box.
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Reply #8 November 15, 2006 11:32:57 PM
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So WindowBlinds 5.49 is only for Pc's that have Vista installed?


No.  I'm running it on XP right now.

 
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Reply #9 November 16, 2006 12:06:46 AM
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Yeap, all seems to works fine on XP. woooohoooooo!!

Very nice blur effect on skin change!!
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Reply #10 November 16, 2006 12:20:25 AM
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Digg! 
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Reply #11 November 16, 2006 12:41:18 AM
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ooooo fantastic jump for joy wow exitment will kill me ty stardock
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Reply #12 November 16, 2006 12:47:50 AM
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Hey I got it switched to beta on XP but I keep hearing beeps all the time. Is that supposed to happen? Never happened before with 5.1.
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Reply #13 November 16, 2006 12:53:41 AM
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Giving it a shot right now. Works pretty well, even the transparent taskbar is 'live'

So far the only issues I've found are that changing the skin caused explorer to die (got the vista 'something bad happened to explorer' dialog ), and Office 2007, while it skins well, the titlebar buttons don't work, and there are some artifacts in the client area (on Excel at least). No show stoppers, though, and I'm pretty sure most of these will be fixed in future releases.

Great stuff so far!
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Reply #14 November 16, 2006 1:16:26 AM
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Wanna hear something funny? I thought it was my laptop making the beeps when installing the beta. Well, I walked the kitchen to cook me some tator tots to snack on and forgot that my cellphone was in my pocket. I heard the beeps again and thought it was in my head and then pulled out my cellphone and the battery is dying. I have to recharge it. I thought that was funny. So it has nothing to do with windowblinds 5.5 at all.
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Reply #15 November 16, 2006 2:01:04 AM
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@ Citizen dustyshot: lmao hahaha
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Reply #16 November 16, 2006 2:01:40 AM
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The ol' tater tot trick
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Reply #17 November 16, 2006 2:10:54 AM
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Aleatoric:

I can confirm both of your bugs so far.

The explorer dying does happen for me and so does the titlebar button issue in Office 2k7
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Reply #18 November 16, 2006 3:10:17 AM
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I'm running WindowBlinds 5.49(c) on Windows Vista Beta Pre-RC and (so far!) no problems at all. Thanks Stardock! God how i missed WindowBlinds!
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Reply #19 November 16, 2006 7:41:42 AM
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All that this program needs now in terms of users of Windows Vista, is a Vista-exclusive skin. I actually quite like Aero, but there are one or two little bits of it I don't like.
Thanks Stardock for a wonderful program! Any chance of improving Windows Vista Explorer?
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Reply #20 November 16, 2006 7:55:07 AM
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Running this now, looks great   

The only problem is, since installing this, I've been getting this funny burning smell   

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Reply #21 November 16, 2006 7:56:09 AM
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...oh cripes! I forgot the dinner was on...   
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Reply #22 November 16, 2006 8:45:43 AM
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Well---- I installed it on my version of Vista and it crashed explorer on the first skin change!

I restarted and then it hung my desktop prior to loading all startup items.

Third restart and now all seems ok- so far.

Only thing is I run webshots on my desktop and on every restart windowblinds applies its wallpaper and I can't seem to find out how to stop that.

All in all I plan on using it and seeing how it goes.

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Reply #23 November 16, 2006 9:00:12 AM
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DUH!!!!! on me I fingered out how to stop the wallpaper loading-duh

Now all seems to be GREAT!!!!!

Other than the initial hiccups it now be great- THANKS a bazillion Stardock
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Reply #24 November 16, 2006 9:16:04 AM
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Work fine & go fast !!!

(In " Change languaje settings" when click on spanish ... nothing happens... but I think is a Beta and it´s normal...only english in this BETA... )
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Reply #25 November 16, 2006 12:24:46 PM
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No issues on my machine. I'm running on 5744 as well. Very nice.
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