"This machine MUST be rebooted after installing this version of WB6"
After Successfully Updating Everything with Impulse
Thursday, May 1, 2008 by pjamme | Discussion: Object Desktop
I decided to tackle Impulse with trepidation after reading all the horror stories. I downloaded the latest version from a link in the Impulse forum. As soo as Impulse loaded it asked to update itself, so i did. After I restarted Impulse I updated everything successfully except Skin Studio which said it was missing a password and did not complete so I restarted it and it updated successfully.
After I rebooted WB did not start so I tried it with the Program Menu and I got the subject error. It also said: (Sorry I have a bitmap, but cannot figure out how to insert an image without a URL so will type it out)
"If you have rebooted and still get this message, you may need to disable any registry protection / anti spyware apps you have and reinstall WindowBlinds as they may be incorrectly preventing the install. As an alternative, you can press the 'Use additional process' button which will make Windowblinds use a little more memory, but may resolve this problem."
As for the first suggestion, I am using Comodo Firewall 3 and I added wbcfg ( or wbconfig) as a trusted application which did not help. I also have NOD 32 by Eset as my Virus Program.
As for the other suggestion about one of the buttons, it didn't work. So I rebooted three times with no effect.
Any suggestions? How do I re-install from archive?
Peter
Reply #2 Sunday, May 4, 2008 3:43 PM
I rplied Friday night late, apparently it was lost in the Forum crash this weekend.
In SDC the newset WD I had archived was 6.02.5. When I click on Verify Applicaton in Impulse (v 1.01.155) it says: WindowBlinds 6 is not installed correctly. Please look for an application update. There aren't any.
Today I updated SDC to 2.54.522 and it showed WB 6.10.079 so I am trying that. That version installed and works fine. I wonder why I couldn't get it with Impulse?
Reply #3 Friday, May 9, 2008 8:29 AM
Even though WB 6.10.79 was working fine I tried Impulse again last night. It said updates were available for Icon Packager and Window Blinds 6 (Version 6.10.81) so I said update. When I rebooted I got the error again as above. So I went into SDC and tried to restore archive 6.10.79 three times and it failed each time. It installed that version (6.10.79) but not correctly.
So I opened Object Desktop in SDC and tried the update to 6.10.81 and that worked.
What I learned, Impulse is not ready yet for prime time. Stick to SDC for now.
Reply #4 Friday, May 9, 2008 10:36 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:03 AM
Update 7/25/08
Happy ending again. I went into SDC last night to roll it back and there was a new version (88) available so I updated and WB works again.
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Reply #1 Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:00 PM
Don't have Impulse... but in SDC it's 'file' > 'restore archive' = pick from the list when it comes up... should be the equivalent somewhere in Impulse