I had this problem with IconPackager. I uninstalled IP, reinstalled WB and everything was fine. Am I right in saying that Theme Manager isn't compatible with WIndowBlinds 5?

I'll try that...

installed an older version of SDC which fixed the problems I was having with it.

Theme Manager is still not working properly. I have another theme manager issue I'm going to search the forums for. I'll post it in another thread if I don't find it.

If you have OD, try installing the latest beta build of WB from OD and see if that helps.

Beta builds are downloaded through the SDC browser.

Nope...it says there is an update, BUT I click it and it does nothing...I am only running the trial though..

I'm getting the same problem. Some notes on my situation:

I am a recent purchaser of ObjectDesktop, a Christmas gift for myself.

I normally run with a Restricted User account. This may matter, but I'm not sure.

I have installed WB 5, not WB 4.

I get the same bubble message.

Apparently my problem is only with WB visual styles. Cursors and Icons download and install correctly with ThemeMgr.

Theme Manager's download.log has messages like this:

-- [AlienMindII] ----------------------------------------------------
Url: https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?SkinID=3322&LibID=1
File: C:\DOCUME~1\NIGHTB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\~thememgr\WindowBlinds\
Result: Http error (code: -11, Error creating/opening the target file)

Afterwards, WB 5 shows an "Unknown" skin with no preview.

In C:\Program Files' Stardock and WinCustomize folders, I added Modify permissions for (Restricted) Users. This helped with other problems. And I checked to make sure I had write permissions for the Temp WindowBlinds folder.

I can manually download and install WB visual styles outside of ThemeMgr. I currently have the basic Aquarium theme installed. ThemeMgr cannot download new WB visual styles, but it can use existing styles.

Everything else I tried has worked: individual WB visual styles, icons, cursors, DesktopX (for Aquarium), and bootskins (of course installed with Administrator).

I searched all the documentation I could find for this problem. If somebody wants to tell me "RTFM," please tell me where the "M" is! This problem isn't a showstopper; I'm not going to ask for my money back. But it IS inconvenient.

Also, WB reports this:

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Sony Notebook LCD (1024x768)) 1 is attached to MOBILITY RADEON 9200

Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/20 12:23:40
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

-nightbird

Can't think that I've Done anything different, but I recently applied a suite with ThemeManager 2.24.040 and the WB applied without issue. I had problem of not being able to apply WB's via TM before, but now that I'm running WB 5.00[b]009, all appears to be working just fine.

Try copying the logons that TM installs to Wincustomize\LogonStudio so that they will be in both folders and TM should find the logons in one of those. Just a guess, but it should work.