Glitchy Windowblinds, can not apply or change skins

3java3

Join Date 07/2002

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Glitchy Windowblinds, can not apply or change skins

For some reason I am not able to change skins, or to apply skins. It takes a minute to process a change, a lot longer than normal, but then WB wimps out and leaves me with the old skin still applied and will not let me go back to default aero unless I unload windowblinds, which takes me back to classic. Normally a change or an apply should only take perhaps 15 seconds. It even has 2 skins going at the same time, which is really really really weird and strange. I do not know what is going on here. I have not been doing any tweaking or messing around with the registry. I am using a Toshiba Satellite A305, which has a 2 ghz dual core processor, 3 gigs of RAM. Intel Centrino chip, and running Windows 7 Ultimate.

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retiredmaster

Join Date 03/2001

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As promised:

Booted up this morning and once again I have two copies of WBVista.exe running.

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The same thing happened to me this morning! Last night, before I went to bed, I shut the computer down. Not just to go to sleep, but a complete shut down. Needless to say, I was not too happy about seeing 2 copies of WBVista.exe running in Task Manager. I knew then and there, that If I were to try to apply or change skins in Windowblinds, it wiould a classic fail. But I thought I would do a reboot, and see what happened. After I rebooted, and checked the Task Manager, there was only 1 case of WBVista.exe running, so I was ok, and I was able to change a skin. Essorant, try a reboot or wait a while, then try a reboot later. That may fix things. I think Stardock needs to look into this, I think it's a major bug that needs to be fixed or resolved, and you and I are kinda like Beta testers, even though this is gold code that is giving us a headache.

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I have just upgraded to 7.1 and had to manually sort some problems with file permissions to get the update to run. Now it executes and opens the Configuration window, but fails to apply the skin. The first time I press the 'Apply Changes' button, I get a ghosted desktop for a few seconds, then back to Aero. If I press the button again, nothing happens at all.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 7.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 7.8

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.1 (build 273 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Dell 3008WFP(Digital)) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
(Dell 3008WFP(DP)) 2 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series
(Generic PnP Monitor) 3 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

Wblind.dll        2010/06/07 20:10:20
Wblind64.dll        2010/06/07 20:10:52
Wbsrv.dll        2010/06/07 20:10:56
SevenConfig.exe        2010/06/07 20:10:02
Wbload.exe        2010/04/01 22:40:18
Wbhelp.dll        2010/04/01 22:40:07
Tray.dll             2010/04/01 22:40:19
Wbload.dll             2010/06/07 20:10:25
Screen.exe        2010/04/01 22:39:26

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Bebi Bulma

Join Date 04/2004

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Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 17

Quoting Bebi Bulma, reply 10The menu fonts in Firefox, statusbar, right click menus, tooltips. I always had to go into the Windows appearance properties and manually change those to Segoe.

The skin author decides on those fonts and chances are the skin you are using did not set them to Segoe UI.

Setting them in appearance properties is not the right way to do this as they will be reset to whatever the skin has set on reboot.

Don't mean to hi-jack your thread again...but I think I know how the fonts act funny. When switching between WB skin/Aero/WB skin, that's when the fonts switch to Tahoma. Using Aero Colors right now and it's all Segoe, but if I switch to say Jawndo, some of the fonts will switch to Tahoma (and I have font overrides enabled to Segoe). A reboot is required to fix it.

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yay, I was having the same problem that 3java3 had with my new Windows 7 computer and brand new updated version of Windowblinds.

but followed Mrsguy's advice on this old thread and now the issue is resolved

In my case, none of the Windowblind's would apply whatsoever-- but would just turn my pretty Aero taskbar this plain white color. Only system restore would bring it back to the Aero transparent look.

On Windowblind's "About Screen" it even stated that Windowblinds was "installed correctly" too. When I tried to apply a theme, after following Mrsguy's advice, a little box popped up on the screen stating something like: "Windowblinds was not installed correctly, would you like to fix this". I clicked "yes", and then it applied the skin - Wouldnt work whatsoever before this. These forums are great help- my issue was resolved without having to bother the Stardock folk..yayyyy! thanks MirsGuy !

ps... lov'n my Windows 7 by the way-

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yay, I was having the same problem that 3java3 had with my new Windows 7 computer and brand new updated version of Windowblinds.

but followed Mrsguy's advice on this old thread and now the issue is resolved

In my case, none of the Windowblind's would apply whatsoever-- but would just turn my pretty Aero taskbar this plain white color. Only system restore would bring it back to the Aero transparent look.

ps... lov'n my Windows 7 by the way-

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