Kellsea

Join Date 06/2010

What should I do if I will format my computer soon?

Hi everyone,

New girl in town I recently buy WindowBlinds 7 and use it in my office computer. The computer goes bad and the system person want to format it. How I can protect my WindowBlinds license, in order to use it again when my computer be ok? Do I have to do some special process to save the license?

Please excuse my english, it sucks I know

Thank your for the help.

Greetings!!

Kellsea

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First, back up all your WindowBlind skins.

Then after the reformat all you need to do is reinstall Impulse. Log on to Impulse using the info you used when you purchased WB's. It should then show WindowBlinds in the "My Software" tab Click on install. Impulse will activate it then copy your skins back to the folder in Public Documents. All set to go!

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Thank you Wizard for your response, it was very useful!

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I'm glad I could help. You must work in a nice office if they let you use WindowBlinds at work.

BTW, Welcome to WinCustomize.

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Rosco_P

Join Date 07/2009

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Quoting Wizard1956,

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You must work in a nice office if they let you use WindowBlinds at work.

It's actually encouraged at my office...

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It's actually encouraged at my office...

One would hope

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How I can protect my WindowBlinds license, in order to use it again when my computer be ok? Do I have to do some special process to save the license?

No need to de-auth the machine or anything like that, just reinstall when you're up and running again. We're pretty lenient when it comes to activation. You don't have limitless installs, but no normal user should hit the limits when reinstalling. And, even if you do, you can always write to us and plead your case, and we'll probably reset the counts for you.

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I have recently discovered a program that makes reformatting my hard drive not necessary. When I installed new programs or remove others in the past, I was plagued with computer problems that often facilitated reformatting my hard drive. Since I have used Registry Mechanic, I have not had problems.

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Quoting Wizard1956,

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First, back up all your WindowBlind skins.

Then after the reformat all you need to do is reinstall Impulse. Log on to Impulse using the info you used when you purchased WB's. It should then show WindowBlinds in the "My Software" tab Click on install. Impulse will activate it then copy your skins back to the folder in Public Documents. All set to go!

Well, I'm going to format my HD and reinstall everything again, so I'm interested in following the advice given here. I don't understand about the "back up all your WindowBlind skins" and "Impulse will . . . copy your skins back to the folder in Public Documents." Of course I can just copy all my skin folders to an external HD, then copy them back to the C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds folder again (I have XP Pro SP3) after reinstalling WB with Impulse.

I don't see anything in WindowBlinds that'll back up my skins, so I don't understand how Impulse can copy my skins back to the folder in Public Documents. Maybe I just don't understand what Wizard1956 is saying.

I have to save textures I've created too, right?

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see if this helps....

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