WindowBlinds 6 Beta Feedback
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 by Neil Banfield | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Please post all feedback about the WindowBlinds 6 beta on this thread.
Note that the beta is for 32 bit XP and Vista systems only. Please do not post about it not working on 64 bit XP/Vista. Please continue to use WB 5.51 on those platforms.
This beta is for Object Desktop customers ONLY. Standalone WindowBlinds 5 owners will not be able to activate this build.
Please note that you must have Stardock Central 2.46 Build 154 or later to install the WindowBlinds 6 betas. If you try and use older versions, it'll eventually timeout and give you an error about an invalid URL.
If you have problems with it running at all, please uninstall WB6, reboot and then try reinstalling WB6 again.
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Reply #102 Thursday, August 2, 2007 10:44 AM
My settings:
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4.8
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6 (6.0 (beta build 30 x86 - Vista Edition))
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Monitor PnP genérico) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600
Wblind.dll 2007/08/01 10:45:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/08/01 15:27:02
Wbconfig.exe 2007/08/01 15:27:45
Wbload.exe 2007/07/30 13:14:11
Wbhelp.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:07
Tray.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:49
Wbload.dll 2007/07/24 10:33:56
Reply #103 Thursday, August 2, 2007 10:52 AM
Reply #104 Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:12 AM
Reply #105 Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:20 AM
This is my list, I think Darken's might be a little shorter
Acrylic
Ares
Aura
Fett
Fresco
Impulse
Jitter
Largo
Opulence
OpusOS
Vectorcell
I still have BuufOS but I downloaded an updated version at sometime which makes me believe it uninstalled ALL skins that were installed with Version 5.
Reply #106 Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:24 AM
Can't believe I lost Acrylic......was one of my most used.........
Reply #107 Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:32 AM
http://www.guichamps.com/skins2006.asp?skinid=709
Reply #108 Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:37 AM
Yep: Acrylic, Aura and Vectorcell can't be downloaded, will they be added back in or do we need to uninstall WB6, install WB5, save skins in another folder, then uninstall 5 and reinstall 6.
Neil, that start menu transparency control does nothing in XP, the others, window frames, menus and titlebar all work fine. Is the start menu trans for Vista only?
Reply #109 Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:41 AM
As Neil stated the ones that where removed. Where those uninstalled with WB 5.5 and WB 6 did not include these skins. If you have a archive of your earlier version and that archive included the skins with it. Then you can uninstall WB 6 and reinstall from the archive to get your skins back. Then do a backup copy of your skins to a folder and reinstall WB 6. After it has been installed you can add your skins back to your Window Blinds folder in Stardock Object Desktop.
People need to consider that this a Beta version of WB 6. But with any install of any update for any program it is best to have a good backup of everything.
Good luck everyone...
I believe the Stardock Team has done a very fine job with this update. For sure they are still working just as hard to get whatever other problems and tweaks that are left to be done before the final release is ready.
I say "Congrats to them all!" and "Thank You!"
SGT
Reply #111 Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:01 PM
Well done fellas, look forward to future builds and of course the final!
Reply #112 Thursday, August 2, 2007 12:56 PM
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6 (6.0 (beta build 17 x86))
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
This is because :
Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.
It appears you have enabled limited per pixel mode, so WindowBlinds will support per pixel, but with no hardware support.
(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 340M
Wblind.dll 2007/08/01 10:46:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/07/31 10:39:19
Wbconfig.exe 2007/08/01 15:27:45
Wbload.exe 2007/07/30 13:14:11
Wbhelp.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:07
Wbui.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:06
Tray.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:49
Reply #113 Thursday, August 2, 2007 1:10 PM
Reply #114 Thursday, August 2, 2007 1:17 PM
jhayes3: What tells you that you need to buy a new registration and what products do you have registered in SDC?
Reply #115 Thursday, August 2, 2007 1:27 PM
Really looking forward to seeing a completed blind from you.
Reply #116 Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:01 PM
Reply #117 Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:12 PM
Something odd happend here during the installation:
- Launched SDC and updated it as requested.
- Ran the WB6 installation and also uninstalled WB5.5 as requested.
- The uninstallation of WB5.5 started..... and here comes the odd part:
SDC uninstalled Iconpackager as well!!!
And, no I didn't touch anything related to IP prior to started the WB6 installation.
"Oh well" I though "I'll just reinstall IP after rebooting"
So I rebooted, but when re-entering my desktop...... all my icons were still the same as before rebooting (as applyed by IP)
So I launched SDC again to see if IP was still listed as uninstalled - and bingo... it was!
So how was the icons-set still applied?!
Well... for some reason IP is still present on my system - and working perfectly.....
(I have a unrelated question regarding language settings in IP:
How do I make IP keep the language I select?!
Whenever I select English as language (I hate the Danish PC-language), IP changes it back to Danish on next bootup.)
One other thing I noticed after installing WB6:
In the Windowblind folder there are two new folders "skinstudio" and "two"
Remaining "left-overs" from coding or do they have a specific purpose?!
Otherwise the installation and everything else went smoothly! 
Reply #119 Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:16 PM
Really looking forward to seeing a completed blind from you.
Considering the source, I must express my humble gratitude.
I've got a few sitting, waiting for some of these niggling details to get sorted out, and several in progress. I uploaded a suite of skins a couple of years ago - Crisp is the name if you're interested. They were updates of Jafo's BlindJAFO Trans3 skin from way way back. But I'm a little like you in that I hate publishing something I know has a glitch I can't get figured out.
I'll try not to disappoint once I have 'em ready.
Reply #120 Thursday, August 2, 2007 2:19 PM
The SkinStudio folder seems to have a lot of SKS6 resources.
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Reply #101 Thursday, August 2, 2007 10:15 AM
Your on Vista