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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Daiwa
Reply #141 Thursday, August 2, 2007 5:49 PM
I was also hoping that text with blurred shadows would finally work in the Titlebar with WB6 - afraid not. Gotta look to see if shadowed text is now a working option in menus & the Start Panel, but I'm not optimistic. Seems like those would be a priority, but that's just me.

Overall, the beta seems very solid, but there clearly is work to be done.

karmat
Reply #142 Thursday, August 2, 2007 5:54 PM
Thank you Monty XP and Nakor for responding. Found the info, and yes, I have 32 bit!

Neil Banfield
Reply #143 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:11 PM

RedBuzzard: Menu bars are not skinned with per pixel skins which is why MDI min, max, close buttons do not get skinned.  This is not a bug.

Daiwa: We intentionally block shadowed text on menus as it would look a mess with ownerdrawn menus not using it.


tosbsas
Reply #144 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:16 PM
no problems here at all, just activation needed a second install. I don't like though that you cannot choose where it installs wb.

I said install, it asked for uninstall, I did that, NO REBOOT , wb 6 installed, reboot and import skins

Now all runs great

Ruben

vStyler
Reply #145 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:23 PM
Menu bars are not skinned with per pixel skins which is why MDI min, max, close buttons do not get skinned. This is


Does that mean they will not be skinned in final WB6?

Tsumana
Reply #146 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:28 PM
I've been using it all day and so far have had no major problems, I'm on a fairly old XP machine and everything has been going great. Actually changing WBs seems to be considerable quicker now.

Daiwa
Reply #147 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:35 PM
Daiwa: We intentionally block shadowed text on menus as it would look a mess with ownerdrawn menus not using it.


10-4. How about Titlebar text effects? If it still doesn't work, will SKS6 stop offering options like that that WB doesn't support? Still curious about the menu painting issues, as well. But then you probably know that.

Daiwa
Reply #148 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:46 PM
Menu bars are not skinned with per pixel skins which is why MDI min, max, close buttons do not get skinned. This is

Does that mean they will not be skinned in final WB6?


And can we get the skinning of MDI buttons in non-perpixel skins fixed up?

Sorry, I know I'm a pest.

Excalpius
Reply #149 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:53 PM
I'm having the same problem, both the Windowblinds 5.51 and now with the v6 beta.

I'm an Object Desktop subscriber, so I would have installed a trial version of WindowsBlinds on this originally clean Vista 32 Ultimate installation.

Object Dock, Multiplicity Professional, Desktop X, LogonVista, TweakVista all install and run correctly

UAC is off, but I've uninstalled and reinstalled with it on and off
Results repeatable from two different admin accounts

I've reinstalled and updated Stardock Central, and have tried to run the applications with "Run as Administrator" etc.

I've disabled NOD32 antivirus and Windows Defender service and application and reinstalled, etc.

All to no avail.

Every time the wbconfig tries to run, it comes up with this "you must reboot" error message.

These new versions work fine under XP on two different test systems, so I know how the installation is supposed to work, hehe.

I've done so many uninstallations and reinstallations (which all require a new activation for WB6 beta) that I had to have Stardock tech support reset my activation counter, haha.

I would appreciate some help as well, thanks.

ClassicNancy
Reply #150 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:54 PM
My install went great and everything works fine with all the skins I had. My only issue is the sidebar. I tried using the double sidebar and nothing changes.

Neil Banfield
Reply #151 Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:56 PM
Double sidebar?

Excalpius
Reply #152 Thursday, August 2, 2007 7:54 PM
(delete, dup post due to crazy forumnness today)

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #153 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:01 PM

All working fine here   

Some nice new skins in there...but... gimme SkinStudio so I can do my own   


CodF4ther
Reply #154 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:08 PM
I'm running XP. When I turn on blur, the window frame turns to magic pink when I drag any window. Here are my details:

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6 (6.0 (beta build 18 x86))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to Mobile Intel(R) 915GM/GMS,910GML Express Chipset Family

Wblind.dll 2007/08/02 11:25:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/08/02 11:25:18
Wbconfig.exe 2007/08/02 11:25:47
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

Bebi Bulma
Reply #155 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:13 PM
For those looking for Vector Cell: WWW Link

And archiving the skins through SDC has NEVER worked for me. It just gets stuck loading the file list, and would get stuck for an hour before I gave up. Looks like I'll have to get Aura from a backup dvd. Really crappy that the skins were somehow deleted, especially since I told WB to leave all the skins, themes, etc when I uninstalled.

Neil Banfield
Reply #156 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:15 PM

CodF4ther: if you have a process called ipoint.exe running please kill it.

The latest version of MS intellipoint is highly buggy and causes glitches like this (it seems to be capturing the contents of every window - exactly why is a question for Microsoft)


vStyler
Reply #157 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:21 PM
Hey Neil.. good job on being around today\tonight, i, for one, appreciate it.

ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #158 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:23 PM
Updated to .023 and looks abit sharper with my graphics in Vista. Blurr is cleaner too!
Easy to update with no more than a restart!

SGT  

brewman
Reply #159 Thursday, August 2, 2007 8:33 PM
Nice work Neil .. things seem to be running fine on my machines.
I too appreciate all your hard work.

Mark Busekroos
Reply #160 Thursday, August 2, 2007 9:38 PM
Install was painless for me and is working great. Great job on the transparency and blur effects. Another great job by the Stardock team.

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