Installed WB5B.002, reboot and no desktop icons, taskbar etc

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 by greglaw | Discussion: WindowBlinds

After upgrading my licence for another year, I installed the WB5b.002 update through Stardock Central, rebooted when prompted and when I logged into my profile, I had my desktop bitmap and nada else. No icons, taskbar nada. Uninstalled through another profile, rebooted, logged into that profile and same problem, desktop background but nothing else.
Uninstalled again, rebooted, logged in and got Windows classic interface and my taskbar minimised and on the left hand edge of the screen. What the?

I'm also running adaware which loads on startup and that crashed on this beta. The previous WB5 beta never had a problem. Can I download the "old" beta from somewhere?

I'm running XP 64Bit
2Gb DDR II
3.4Ghz LGA775
Asus P5WDL2
etc etc

Any clues would be grateful, and as I mentioned, even a link to the previous beta would be appreciated

Thanks

Greg
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Nuxx
Reply #1 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:26 AM
I am having exact same problem on x64. I use ultramon and it makes that crash on boot too (missing reg entries), so I uninstalled it, but still WB5 has no taskbar as if explorer.exe has somehow failed.... Back to previous version I go....

greglaw
Reply #2 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:57 AM
Hi Citizen Nuxx,

Any clues on where I go to get the "old" version?

Thanks

Greg

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NightTrainthedark
Reply #3 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:02 AM
Windowblinds 4.6 should still be showing in Stardock Central as a seperate download from 5.0.

firebrick
Reply #4 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:11 AM
how long does it stay like that? mine will do the same thing "regular xp" i have to wait at least 10 min before anything shows up..i thought it was my old p4 1.4 machine, nortons, and all the bs that that has to boot up..

greglaw
Reply #5 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:34 AM
Thanks Journeyman, but I was hoping for WB5.001 version. I can see WB4 but some of my fav skins
don't work.
Bah It does'nt always pay to update.

Greg

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Bichur
Reply #6 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:26 AM

Did you have SDC archive prior to updating?


If so: restore the archive.


If not - try uninstalling through SDC - uncheck show pre release - and WB5.001 should show up.


greglaw
Reply #7 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:22 PM
Glad to se someone's on the ball, thanks Sir Bichur solved the problem perfectly.
Untick "show pre-release" and Hey presto there it is.

Thanks again

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Bichur
Reply #8 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:59 PM

you're welcome


you might consider checking the auto archive before install option if you haven't already done so...it can come in handy


Doctor Who
Reply #9 Wednesday, February 15, 2006 8:32 PM
I am running x64. I updated WB5 and on reboot got only my wallpaper. Nothing else. I opened Task Manager and could not for the life of me figure out what happened. I reinstalled Windows only to have it happen again. But I tried running a new task, Explorer.exe. Everything loaded.
I don't know why the new update does that, but it was allowing my wireless connection and system idle process was at 99%. I could not end that, so I tried this bold move. I'll just keep it on WB4 and leave it at that. I hope this info will be useful to someone.


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cbabbman
Reply #10 Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:14 AM
Same problem with this version on WinXP64. This is the second time I have tried with the same results...

there is something very wrong with this version.

duceyaj
Reply #11 Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:37 PM
i'm also getting the exact problem. i'm running winx64.
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.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1800 Series

Wblind.dll 2006/02/10 19:33:34
Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/06 20:45:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/05 18:42:52
Wbload.exe 2006/01/19 16:19:18
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

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Neil Banfield
Reply #12 Monday, February 20, 2006 9:59 AM

I have tried to reproduce this here without any luck.

Are you using the Welcome screen logon, or the classic domain style?  Also is your profile local or roaming?


alphadog
Reply #13 Tuesday, February 21, 2006 10:09 PM

Nice to see I'm not alone. I am on WinXP64. This last version caused the exact same problem as Greglaw and Nuxx. The desktop has nothing on it. When logging in as administrator afterwards and uninstalling WB, I can log back in my usual profile. If I re-install, the same issue surfaces.


I also use Ultramon and it fails to "set systray icon" like Nuxx. I guess WB is locking up something and Ultramon can't get its thing done. I use a local profile and classic domain style logon, as per Neil's questions.



I wonder if it could be the skin last used? (Mine was Thallos) Is there any way to reset current settings?


alphadog
Reply #14 Monday, February 27, 2006 9:19 PM
No other posts from Stardock? Usually, you guys are pretty responsive...

Neil Banfield
Reply #15 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:35 AM
I need to get this checked on domain style login to see if that makes a difference.

davedan9
Reply #16 Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:21 PM

I was getting the same problem with 5.002. I haven't tried 5.001 yet. But it does not seem to be skin related other then any skin other then MS default.  Below is how I would recover from nothingless.


When I was in neverland, I would ctrl-alt-del to get to task manager. Here you can do File, New Task. Do not bother with Browse it will just blow up. Explorer is going toast, hense no shell or anything. Select Run and CMD. Work you then work your to program directory for me that is C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds now you can run wbconfig.exe and set the skin to MS default. Click apply. Usually I would log off and back on again to sort out the shell.


Though I guess my next step is to uninstall 5.002 and try 5.001


Dave


davedan9
Reply #17 Wednesday, March 1, 2006 5:29 PM

Just as a follow up. Version 5.00.001 seems to be running well on my Xp x64 pro system. I am able to any of the skins and my system has not seem to have any of the explorer crashes that I was having before.


Dave


 


Bichur
Reply #18 Wednesday, March 1, 2006 5:34 PM

duceyaj
Reply #19 Saturday, March 4, 2006 3:33 AM
where do you download the old version? i didn't backup my old version when i updated.

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Bichur
Reply #20 Saturday, March 4, 2006 7:29 PM
if you are referring to 5.00.001 an you're using a higher beta...using SDC...uninstall the beta and uncheck 'show prerelease' and the released version should show for download. Check 'auto archive' first so you don't lose the one you have in case I'm wrong.

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