Vista WB BSOD with USB Dongle MS Remote

ok, at first i thought maybe i had a bad installation of windows or something, cause i was really messing with vista, breaking it, fixing it, and son on. anyways, if i had my USB IR dongle plugged in for my MS Media Center remote, i would get a BSOD on boot up, unplug it, and no problems, boots right up. i couldn't figure out what was causing it.

so i reformat, set up everything, and cool, it's working. i install the current version of windowblinds for vista, and the same BSOD, unplug the dongle, boots right up. i uninstall windowblinds, and no problems.

so there seems to be a weird bug with a MS USB IR remote dongle for media center remotes, and WB.

any thoughts?

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Neil Banfield

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What are the exact details shown by the BSOD?

Also what build number is your WB install? (System Information page)

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now, let me say, i seem to have found a workaround for me, i plug the IR receiver into my monitor USB ports, which don't seem to be activated until after this problem occurs. i also think it's tied to the video driver somehow, windows vista suggests that i upgrade my video drivers or something, or tells me it's a bad driver, but i've tried different versions of video driver with no change.

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.50 (build 102 x86 - Vista Edition))

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 1000008e
BCP1: C0000005
BCP2: 954C5881
BCP3: 9A7DBC04
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6000
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini031607-04.dmp
C:\Users\mguglielmo\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-110401-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\mguglielmo\AppData\Local\Temp\WERED0C.tmp.version.txt

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