All WB skins use Windows Standard Color scheme

I'm using the new WB 5.5 for Vista x64. I have an mpg video as my background using either DeskScapes or DreamScenes, but everytime I boot, I get the error message that DreamScenes can not start because the color scheme Aero is not selected. No matter the WB skin I select, I always get Windows Standard as my color scheme.

Interesting that I can manually select my mpg file as my background and it works fine using Windows Standard instead of Aero.

How do I get DreamScenes to work with WB?

Thanks

Mark

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Neil Banfield

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It sounds like dreamscenes is getting confused.

What specification is your PC?

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I have an Intel Core 2 2.93Ghz
2GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 7600GT w/256MB
My Windows Experience rating is 5.4

I also have Stardocks Deskscapes installed but I cant get the DreamMaker software to work so I just select an .mpg file for my background. This works fine excpet at boot when I get the error message.

Mark

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Problem solved.

I realized I had a program that would launch on startup that was incompatible with Vista Aero scheme. It would force Vista to switch to the basic scheme temporarily during startup. When I removed this startup program, everything returned to normal.

Thanks for listening.

Mark

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Neil Banfield

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What application did you have that is incompatible with Vista Aero?

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My mistake...the problem remains. Any help would be appreciated.

I thought it was the Ulead Video Studio quick-launch program, but today I rebooted and the problem re-appeared. I've uninstalled StarDocks DeskScapes.

Here is what is happening:

1) On boot, WindowBlinds loads fine but I get the error message "DreamScene can only run using the Windows Aero Scheme".
2) I right click on the desktop and select Personalize/Windows Color and Appearance/Open Classic Appearance properties. Here I can see that the Windows Standard Color scheme is selected.
3) I change the color Scheme to Windows Aero---the preview window is now a black box
4) I press OK
5) I repeat step 2 and I can see that even though I just changed it, Windows Standard is still selected.
6) I unload WindowBlinds
7) Now my scheme can be seen as definitely Windows Standard
8) I repeat steps 2-4 and this time Windows Aero remains as my color scheme
9) I reload WindowBlinds
10) I repeat step 2...the Color Scheme has reverted again to Windows Standard

So it definitely appears to be WindowBlinds that is causing my Color Scheme to not be Aero.

Again, I am running Vista Ultimate 64bit and WindowBlinds. Here is my System Info:

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.51 (build 110 x86 - Vista Edition)) - 64 bit OS
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)

Wblind.dll 2007/06/18 15:11:20
Wblind64.dll 2007/06/18 15:11:04
Wbsrv.dll 2007/05/05 16:28:50
Wbconfig.exe 2007/06/19 10:43:03
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 16:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 19:27:49

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