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A problem with Norton Utilities?

November 22, 2001 6:41:24 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
I used to have the shareware version of WB and the Norton program boxes were skined with WB.I just installed the registered version of WB3 and now all of a sudden my Norton and my Display Properties boxes are not skinned (they just appear as that crappy old Windows classic style)Can anyone help me out with this problem?
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Reply #1 November 22, 2001 10:07:58 PM
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I have WB3 on Windows XP Home Edition and the only time the Display Properties is skinned is when I use the standard themes included with the OS. Not sure why, hopefully someone will post an answer to this. As far as NU, don't know. Just my 2 cents.
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Reply #2 November 22, 2001 11:19:28 PM
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I have noticed the same thing with NU as Space Ace. However I must say that personally I am very happy with NU no longer being skinned. I always had problems with ghost images appearing and other oddities. I just don't think Norton takes well to skins. As to the why I'm sorry but I have no idea.
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Reply #3 November 23, 2001 12:04:03 AM
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Norton Utilities are not skinned because they do things in a non-standard way which cause bad things to happen when skinned. Display Properties is (currently) unskinned to ensure you have a way out if a skin is so bad that it crashes every window you display - usually because of a buggy DLL. You can change this by adding SkinDisplay=1 to the [Global] section of wb.ini in your Windows directory.
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Reply #4 November 23, 2001 3:03:06 AM
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Wow! Thanks for the tip TheGreenReaper. Is it safe to change the wb.ini?
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Reply #5 November 23, 2001 8:05:02 AM
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Good one, Mr. TheGreen....

Worked a treat....
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Reply #6 November 23, 2001 9:06:50 AM
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Yes, it's reasonably safe, although it's probably best if you don't mess with any of the other settings there - most are just ones in the WB control panel, but some are special debugging ones that you don't normally need. Keep a backup if you're really paranoid.
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Reply #7 November 23, 2001 9:51:24 AM
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Cool, thanks TheGreenReaper!
Now, is there a way to skin the Windows Security window (when you press Control+Alt+Delete)?
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Reply #8 November 23, 2001 11:40:35 PM
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I don't know of any way you can, currently. I'm not sure I'd personally want it to be, anyway (if your WB skin causes each window to crash, you'd *really* like to be able to bring up the WinSec panel without having it skin, right? *g*)

Of course, I might be proven wrong in the next ODNT update.
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Reply #9 November 24, 2001 12:10:30 AM
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I took Norton out of my exclusion list and it works okay. WB tends to go on the side of being safe.
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Reply #10 November 24, 2001 5:57:34 AM
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Paxx....I always thought that the ctrl / alt / del window was NOT a function of the explorer shell, but part of the kernel....and maybe that was the reason it wasn't included in the skinnable bits of WB...
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