Bug: Expanding Windows
Thursday, November 29, 2007 by JacX77 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
I'm an Object Desktop user running WinbowBlinds 6 on Vista Final Home.
I love window blinds, and it's wonderful for replacing Vistas interface with something a little easier on the eyes, but I have one grievance with it.
I've noticed that with many skinned programs, mainly Windows Live Messenger, though yahoo will do it sometimes too, both the latest versions, when you open and close the windows several times, they will growing slowly by pizels and pixels, untill they take over the screen if you dont resize them back down. This doesn't happen with the default aero interface, or when WLM is in "Show Menu Bar" mode.
Is this a problem with WLM or yahoo itself, or with WindowBlinds? I really would like to see this fixed...
I love window blinds, and it's wonderful for replacing Vistas interface with something a little easier on the eyes, but I have one grievance with it.
I've noticed that with many skinned programs, mainly Windows Live Messenger, though yahoo will do it sometimes too, both the latest versions, when you open and close the windows several times, they will growing slowly by pizels and pixels, untill they take over the screen if you dont resize them back down. This doesn't happen with the default aero interface, or when WLM is in "Show Menu Bar" mode.
Is this a problem with WLM or yahoo itself, or with WindowBlinds? I really would like to see this fixed...
JacX77
Reply #2 Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:32 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:32 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot about that, I'm sorry. Here it is.
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.4
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.01 (build 57 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA NB8M-GS
Wblind.dll 2007/11/06 10:13:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/09/24 18:08:26
Wbconfig.exe 2007/11/02 14:30:08
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:28
Screen.exe 2007/11/02 19:37:51
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.4
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.01 (build 57 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA NB8M-GS
Wblind.dll 2007/11/06 10:13:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/09/24 18:08:26
Wbconfig.exe 2007/11/02 14:30:08
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:28
Screen.exe 2007/11/02 19:37:51
ArileenDesign
Reply #3 Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:39 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:39 PM
you should contact stardock support by sending a mail to [email protected] and referring with a link to this post
ZubaZ
Reply #4 Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:57 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:57 PM
The file dates you have don't match anything I can match them to.
Uninstall and reinstall from SDC.
No point contacting SDC until you have a good install
Uninstall and reinstall from SDC.
No point contacting SDC until you have a good install
ZubaZ
Reply #5 Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:18 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:18 PM
As an aside, I believe that both Yahoo and WLM have their own skinning engines and who knows what wackiness they do.
DorkCoffeez
Reply #6 Friday, November 30, 2007 8:44 AM
Reply #6 Friday, November 30, 2007 8:44 AM
Not sure about Windows live but Yahoo does not play well with Stardock skinning at all.
JacX77
Reply #7 Friday, November 30, 2007 1:34 PM
Reply #7 Friday, November 30, 2007 1:34 PM
I reinstalled WindowBlinds, just to be sure, all the dates were the same. Might be something to do with it being the Vista version.
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.4
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.01 (build 57 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA NB8M-GS
Wblind.dll 2007/11/06 10:13:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/09/24 18:08:26
Wbconfig.exe 2007/11/02 14:30:08
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:28
Screen.exe 2007/11/02 19:37:51
Looking closer, I think yahoo's isn't doing it anymore. That might have been with the last stable version, I'm using beta now. Windows Love/MSN is still just as bad. I think it might have something to do with the window borders being a different width?
It surely inst a universal problem with programs with their own skinning engines... Winamp holds up without error.
I might be just better off to exclude the application, as this likely isn't anything thats Stardock's fault, or something they could fix. I'll still report it to the support E-mail later today though.
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.4
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.01 (build 57 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA NB8M-GS
Wblind.dll 2007/11/06 10:13:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/09/24 18:08:26
Wbconfig.exe 2007/11/02 14:30:08
Wbload.exe 2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:28
Screen.exe 2007/11/02 19:37:51
Looking closer, I think yahoo's isn't doing it anymore. That might have been with the last stable version, I'm using beta now. Windows Love/MSN is still just as bad. I think it might have something to do with the window borders being a different width?
It surely inst a universal problem with programs with their own skinning engines... Winamp holds up without error.
I might be just better off to exclude the application, as this likely isn't anything thats Stardock's fault, or something they could fix. I'll still report it to the support E-mail later today though.
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Reply #1 Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:06 PM
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.51 (build 97 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.
(Écran Plug-and-Play) 1 is attached to GIGABYTE RADEON 9200
Wblind.dll Date hour
Wbsrv.dll Date hour
Wbconfig.exe Date hour
Wbload.exe Date hour
Wbhelp.dll Date hour
Wbui.dll Date hour
Tray.dll Date hour
you can find it by right click on the Windowblinds system tray icon and under "system information" on the WB application
click the top right button "copy text" and past it here