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I paid for my copy. I downloaded it from Stardock Central (which is a pain; I could have just downloaded a single EXE and installed the whole suite much easier), and some of the other programs work fine, but WindowBlinds comes up with a back background and I can't do anything with it. Also, after installing Object Desktop, i get a Spooler.exe error everytime I boot my computer, and two more after I log in.

Well, I guess I'll toss in my 2 cents....lol.
First off, that patch all of you are fervently attempting to diagnose actually disables communications to Stardock on the rig, and creates ID files to match the version of blinds. It also creates a mock activation file so it can be used without the code. That's all the crack does. It doesn't modify blinds itself in any way. secondly, I've actually used a cracked version for the sole purpose of comparing the cracked to the legit purchased version. I found that the cracked version ran just as smooth as the purchased. I now have a nice legit purchased version of 6 too and long since deleted the cracked because I personally think Stardock deserves every penny they ask for.
There WAS what was called a "black blinds crack" that did make blinds useless, but it got repaired and re-released. It was about as nasty as you can get too. It would not only disable skinning through blinds, but it also pegged sys resources to a whopping 90 to 99% usage.....lol.

In this I do have a question though. Is it possible to backup your current purchased version of blinds installed from SDC updating? Years ago I had purchased Object Desktop 2004 and lost everything due to a format, and my subscription running out. As a consequence, my purchased CD is useless. Since the subscription is more than the cost of what I really want, I chose to re-purchase blinds6. I'm currently up to date with SDC live updates, and would like to know if there's a way to avoid losing the most current version I have installed without panic attacks and severe depression...lol. Personally I think blinds and SKS is well worth the cash, but I don't wanna have to resort to re-purchasing it should things go awry again.
I know some of you are thinking, "well duuuuhh, why not just resubscribe?" Though that's obviously the desirable approach, not everyone has the 35 or so beans to blow right away....lol.
Lastly, [quote]It was simply an XP patch that interfered with WBs ability to skin windows.. not a faulty crack.


I personally have experienced issues with blinds vs. windows updates. Upon installing a new XPservicepack 2 update and framework2.0 Blinds went nuts. It was resizing just about everything. the most noticeable was the 16x16 systray icons being oversized to 24x24. It was so horrible I had to do a restore to correct the issue. After that, I disabled auto updates and refused to update at all. I was also using an ooooold purchased copy of Obj Desktop 2004, but it ran smooth as silk up to that point.

yup, that's all that would fix it though, which is kind of a pain if it happens often, which in my case it did.Oddly though, I'm having even more issues with blinds6 vs. Vista. I won't bring them up here since this is for cracked blinds usage. I still love Stardock, and probably would crawl into a hole and die if I couldn't use it. Thankfully the world has been graced with pure genius and I now can use it on Vista...lol. The main concern for me was, I thought it was a corruption in the skin I developed and not some quirk in XP. Franky, it scared the H.E. double hockey sticks outa me because I thought I was gonna have to rebuild the entire skin from scratch.....lol.

Oh man, you rule Bichur Thank you! you've saved me countless nights of sleep deprivation over this. I can't wait til SKS is purchasable I'm soooooo gonna buy it instaed of the free one.

the major reason for the black ui (when this post was written) was due to cracked versions of WB.


do you have nView turned on? if so, turn it off.

did you uninstall the trial and reboot prior to installing the paid?

if you put in the ticket at support page have you logged into it and checked the status?

have you checked your spam folders for emails?

cool. this is a useful information!! thanks.

uninstall all versions of WB - reboot

delete all WB folders

run a cleaner like CCleaner

clean your registry

reboot

 

download Impulse

 

run it and let it update itself

 

register your WB serial in Impulse

 

then use Impulse to download and install WB

 

 

if that doesn't work, start a new post - this one is waaaayyy old

Are any?

Russian Roulette....with only one empty chamber would be safer.

well i'm using a LEGAL copy of WindowBlinds...which means i'm a good guy