Windowblinds 4.X and Windows 2000

Hi there,

I'm running Windowblinds under win2K. I have noticed that with WB 4.1 or 4.2 (which are supposed to be 2K friendly) draging a window edge to resise that window cause the scrollbars to stutter while it is being dragged. If I run WB3.5 there is no stuttering and window resizing is smooth as silk. It's very annoying. Does anyone know what's up here? I like to have "show window contents while dragging" swithched on because, lets face it, you should be able to do that with modern video cards.

My specs are:
Athlon XP 2400
Abit NF7-S
512m Kinmax DDR 2700
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro

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I run WB under WinXP home, so I can't speak directly to your question, but since I updated to version 4.1, and with each subsequent update since, my scrollbars AND the associated window contents will bounce up and down occasionally when I move or resize the windows. For me this only happens when I have an IE browser window open, and though it's a bit annoying, the problem is not persistent, so I have just chosen to ignore it.

Sorry, I can't offer any help or solution, but I thought this may possibly be related to your problem, and thought I should post in case it sparks something in someone else reading it.

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DavidK

Join Date 03/2001

I hadn't noticed that but now that you point it out I see it's happening on my system too...

must be an improvement in WB... the new jumping scrollbar feature "watch 'em shake!"

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watch 'em shake

Unload WB and the scrollbars still shake....so I think it's an XP issue

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Unload WB and the scrollbars still shake....so I think it's an XP issue

Unload WB and the scrollbars still bounce/shake/stutter... true.

But Uninstall WB as I had to recently for another reason, and the scrollbars stop bouncing... So I'm thinking it is a WB issue.

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I just figured that with all the stuff running on my desktop. Wallpaper, Sysmetrix, DX, IconX and WB, my video card couldn't keep up with the re-drawing the scrollbars while resizing a window and it wasn't WB because it uses so little resources. Been so long since I wasn't using WB, and now that all my Stardock software is running well, I'll leave it alone...and go with what Shameless said

I'm using a Radeon 7500 64MB DDR and according to Sisoft Sandra another 128MB of system memory is dedicated to the AGP function.

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I think from what some of you are saying it seems the scrollbars flicker a fair bit at present across the windows platforms. Hope that futer upgrades resolve the issue?

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