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Wierd Startup issue

December 1, 2011 8:32:30 AM from Stardock ForumsStardock Forums

Hi,

I have been running Windowblinds 73047 for a few months flawlessly. All of a sudden it will not start with windows. The service starts and is running fine but it will not load until I run the EXE and apply a theme. Then I am only good until I reboot. I don't "think" I did anything to compromise the installation and I ran a virus scan and everything is clean. Any ideas or should I try uninstalling and reinstalling?

 

Thanks all!!

Joe

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Reply #1 December 1, 2011 8:36:11 AM
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If you can, please update Windowblinds. This is an old issue taken care of in one of the recent updates.

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benmanns
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Reply #2 December 1, 2011 8:37:30 AM
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question does it have a blank colored screen after the welcome screen of windows ?
normaly there is a background color for the desktop defined by any windowblinds skin...
Or does it load aero and then applys the defined skin ?

NVM after reading snowmans comment i know the problem is different from mine...

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Reply #3 December 1, 2011 8:53:43 AM
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 Have you updated/installed any security apps that may be blocking WB from running at start-up? If not, a reinstall of WindowBlinds would'nt hurt anything to try it.

 

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a blank colored screen after the welcome screen of windows

I get that also, sort of a very pale blue screen just before the desktop loads. It didn't do that before the last couple of updates. It looks ugly, but not a biggy.

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Reply #4 December 1, 2011 9:25:23 AM
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for me it issort of a problem even if its just a short time its still annoying i have that background color for about 7 seconds thats almost as long as my windows boot up time... it was working one time right after the installation but now i always have that background again.

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Reply #5 December 2, 2011 8:50:30 AM
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What version of Windows, and how did you install WindowBlinds?

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Reply #6 December 2, 2011 9:25:26 AM
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@ Rosco sorry i wasnt able to reply sooner was at work- finally weekend -
back to topic i idownloaded the windowblinds exe from the stardock store and had problems the first time using my serial
Then i went to IRC where doc helped i uninstalled windowblinds and run cc-cleaner to remove the registry files in safe mode rebooted
ran windows exp index and installed again was working like a charm then after 4 days it was back to that state where it shows the background color of the skin while entering windows for 7 seconds.So i contacted Stardock support and got a  clear_wb_settings registry file and downloaded the installer again .
I uninstalled WB and used the reg file after a reboot and installed WB once more and now its working again.
The problem seems to be gone for now but i will keep you informed if it gets back any time soon.
-to what windowblinds version: The first iinstaller was the WindowBlinds730_enhanced_setup and the one i downloaded recently is the same
I will post my Wb about also:

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9 Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 7.7

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.3 (build 310 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC (PnP-Monitor (Standard)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 (PnP-Monitor (Standard)) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560

Wblind.dll      2011/10/17 11:18:20
Wblind64.dll      2011/10/17 11:18:48
Wbsrv.dll      2011/09/26 15:10:56
SevenConfig.exe      2011/10/13 17:33:52
Wbload.exe      2010/10/20 16:08:35
Wbhelp.dll      2011/10/04 10:01:37
Tray.dll           2009/10/23 20:12:19
Wbload.dll           2010/06/07 15:59:25
Screen.exe      2010/06/07 15:59:43

The funny thing was that the normal Aero was loading directly while others like Win8 metro didnt...

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