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What version, if any, do I have?

December 2, 2008 4:29:28 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

When I run either Impulse or Stardock Central I find that WindoBlinds is "available" - presumably not installed. How can that be when I have been running it for at least 2 years on my current system?

The install log shows a first installation 11/16/2006, latest update 10/28/2007.

The situation is the same for WindowFX, too - first installation 11/16/2006, latest update 08/04/2008.

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Reply #1 December 2, 2008 6:50:33 AM
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When I run either Impulse or Stardock Central I find that WindoBlinds is "available" - presumably not installed. How can that be when I have been running it for at least 2 years on my current system?

The "available" may be WB6?

copy the system info from the windowblinds configuration window and paste the info here. That will tell us if you have the current version installed

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Bob Everard
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Reply #2 December 3, 2008 4:24:30 AM
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Well, when I hover over WindowBlinds' icon in the Tray section of my OD+ dock I get the following information:

Window Blinds 6 (6.1 (build 55 X86))

That seems to suggest that I have WB6, doesn't it?

BTW, how do I get a WindowBlinds configuration window. The only options I can see when I right click on the icon are:

 Configure WindowBlinds

Unload WindowBlinds

Configure WindowBlinds has no effect whatsoever.

 

 

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Reply #3 December 3, 2008 5:20:12 AM
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you can acess WB config window directly in the WB folder in Programs, typically is , C:\Programs\Stardock\Object Desktop\Windowblinds. for XP. look for WBConfig.exe. This should open the Window Blinds Configuration window.

Any short cut to Windowblinds, like within your start menu should open WB. The window you use to change skins, is the WB configuration window.  once open go to the "system info" tab and copy the text in the window.

 

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Bob Everard
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Reply #4 December 6, 2008 5:56:25 AM
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My WB folder, at D:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds doesn't contain any WBConfig.exe, except insofar as it does contain a wbconfig.exe.manifest, which is an XML file.

According to both Impulse and Stardock Central, neither WindowBlinds nor WindowFX is available, and when I tried to install WB6 via Stardock Central it crashed!

sdcentral.exe 2.54.00 caused exception C0000005 at address 77404DF6 (Base: 400000)

Registers:
EAX=0000031A EBX=00000000 ECX=00000113 EDX=00000000 ESI=00000000
EDI=7E4188A6 EBP=00103244 ESP=00103234 EIP=77404DF6 FLAGS=00240246
CS=001B DS=0023 SS=0023 ES=0023 FS=003B GS=0000
FPU stack:
FFFF0080008000800080 FFFF0000000000000000 400AC8E521D753870000
0246A6A55C7C80545B6C 57F80000001F6773DD01 1FA380502353A6A55D64
FFFF0000000000000000 FFFF009FB69C009FB69C SW=0000 CW=027F

All the other Stardock products I have installed are correctly indicated by "Installed" or "Update available".

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Reply #5 December 6, 2008 6:49:38 AM
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I tried to update WB. After the boot I get a message saying that I MUST boot for the installation to complete, so I booted, and got exactly the same message box. In the whole WindowBlinds folder, the latest modification, apart from ONE file (sig6.bin, last modified 2008-05-13), the latest modification was some time in 2007.

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Reply #6 December 6, 2008 10:10:52 AM
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I'd delete the wb directory, run ccleaner, reboot, turn off your AVsoftware, install through impulse

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Reply #7 December 6, 2008 3:34:47 PM
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BTW, how do I get a WindowBlinds configuration window =>> right click on the icon =>> Configure WindowBlinds

 

Configure WindowBlinds has no effect whatsoever.

 

how are you changing skins?

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Reply #8 December 7, 2008 9:42:52 AM
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Quoting Bichur,
reply 7




how are you changing skins?

 

Bichur, I hadn't actually changed any skins for several months. The only thing I had done to WB was to unload it so that I could get a decent screenshot with Gadwin PrintScreen. It was after that I first really noticed that, according to Impulse, neither WB nor WindowFX were installed, in spite of the fact that I had been running with something called Impulse for several months.

I finally re-uninstalled, fisrt emptying the WB folder - now I can configure WB, and Impulse shows it as Installed.

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Reply #9 December 7, 2008 3:32:28 PM
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I finally re-uninstalled, fisrt emptying the WB folder - now I can configure WB, and Impulse shows it as Installed.

 

cool

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