Without more information on this there is little I can say.

Uninstalling WB should remove all the key processes and you should not normally get 3 instances of wbvista in taskmanager unless you have 3 logged in users.

We are not aware of any BSOD issues being caused by WB.  There was a small problem on a couple of machines where you could get a BSOD before the login screen would show, but this was resolved a month or so ago.  It is possible your service was not correctly updated and so you were using the old build still.

If you look at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WindowBlinds\Group

What group name is it using?

File System

Will try to reboot without doing that too see if it happends consistantly.
I'll report back.

I will reinstall wb today sometime and try to reproduce and report back here. will make a note of the registry entry you mentioned. back later. thanks

ok, reinstalled the latest version, upone reboot (no bsod) everything went fine. when I opened sd central it found a new update. Ok, without much thinking I let it update and it is then 5.50.017. It asks to reboot, fine again, no bluescreen. But then when it opens wb, there is no more Vista theme. Instead it offers an XP theme. When I apply a skin, everything gets screwed up. the taskbar is not skinned and the rest is somewhat. All I can do is go back, apply basic windows skin and go the vista to reapply the vista skin. there is one instance of wbvista.exe in the taskmanager. in the reg tree it lists UIGroup under the wb tree. I will now uninstall wb again, reinstall and then try without updating it. apparently it messes things up big time. here is the system info I get. WindowBlinds 5.1 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.

It appears you have enabled limited per pixel mode, so WindowBlinds will support per pixel, but with no hardware support.

You have one monitor in total.

(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON X600 Series

Wblind.dll 2006/10/09 10:24:20
Wblind64.dll 2006/10/09 11:51:37
Wbsrv.dll 2006/10/09 10:40:18
Wbconfig.exe 2006/10/10 16:39:13
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/13 17:29:23

me again. I reinstalled after cleaning everything. this time there were no instances of wb services in the taskmanager. No blue screens either (knock on wood). I can apply skins and I see the vista skin next to others that were installed. the version it installed is 5.49t(.051. I open sd central and there it offers me to update again with the newest version of 5.50.017. I cancel the update. Below is the system info from within wb. Looks much better now. Apparently sd central thinks I have XP installed and wants to install a non Vista version? I will reboot a couple times now to see if there is a bsod and report back. Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.6

Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.50 (build 99 x86 - Vista Edition))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON X600 Series

Wblind.dll 2007/02/15 13:36:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/02/15 13:09:05
Wbconfig.exe 2007/02/15 13:35:52
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 18:26:49
Wbload.dll 2007/01/23 18:48:56

easy for you to say. thank you, this helped and the "there is no" update is gone. rebooted a couple times with no blue screen. I assume several things were messed up on my system. One more question. right after the logon screen I get a completely white screen for a couple seconds before it refreshes the ui. I have tried this with two skins (jitter and largo). I don't have this with the vista native theme. Is that normal? Although the chances that the problems I described will happen for others are minimal there seems to be a problem with the uninstaller not cleaning up correctly (and left me with a couple thins running in the background, especially the VistaSrv.exe). maybe sth worth looking into. thanks for all the quick help.

Did you upgrade your XP install to Vista or do a clean install? XP users were getting the wrong WB over the weekend. I wonder if there is a registry entry/etc. left behind if one upgrades to Vista?

Oye.....everyone saw the 5.50.17 version. It was a server glitch that was fixed. When you refreshed the XML data, it fixed it in SDC so that it didn't show.