about wb's start-up purchase tip screen

Saturday, May 20, 2006 by dsf asdfsdfasdf | Discussion: WindowBlinds

I installed the trial wb and whenever i start wb software ,it remind me to purchase the enhanced edition.
How can I remove this boring tip screen! Help
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boss0190
Reply #1 Sunday, May 21, 2006 1:23 AM
Purchase the enhanced edition.

Will Rose
Reply #2 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:50 AM
Well, I own WB through Object Desktop, and I see the "purchase reminder" screen too.

I used to have WB 4.60.048 installed and everything was fine: no nags, no crashes.
I then used Stardock Central to uninstall 4.60, rebooted, and installed WB 5.01.006.

I found that 5.01 crashed (in the wbconfig screen) as soon as I clicked on one of several skins that WB4 had no problems with (such as Antares or Apogee), so I wanted to downgrade.

I used SDC to uninstall 5.01, rebooted, and used SDC to install 4.60.048 again.

NOW, everytime WB starts up, I get the purchase reminder nag screen. I looked in "About Windowblinds" and it does not mention being the shareware version.

I'd appreciate it if someone could help me make this inappropriate screen go away.

ZubaZ
Reply #3 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:01 PM
Could you post the system info from the WB config? I thought I had seen this before with mixed files.

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Will Rose
Reply #4 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:06 PM
Thanks for your reply Zubaz. I am running 4.60 now and there is no "System Info" option. I did see that option in 5.01 though.

ZubaZ
Reply #5 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 12:17 PM
Sorry, I missed teh rollback.

I'd grab odzapper and clean out WB and reinstall WB5.x http://tinyurl.com/r8xw5

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Neil Banfield
Reply #6 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:23 PM

You are getting a nag from WB 4.6 which was installed from SDC?

What does the tooltip say when you mouseover the WB system tray icon?


Will Rose
Reply #7 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:06 PM
Yes, that is correct, Neil. (BTW I have never installed shareware or even standalone WB. It's always been from SDC (or component manager before that). The screen offers me WB for $19.95 etc... The tooltip says exactly:

WindowBlinds 4 (4.6 (build 214))


Thanks....


Will Rose
Reply #8 Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:00 PM
A followup, Neil... I had occasion to reboot after my previous post, and NOW the tooltip says:

WindowBlinds 4.5

However, selecting "About Windowblinds" from the tooltip reports: 4.6 (build 214)

SDC says the version installed is 4.60.048


Thanks...

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