WB on Vista is borked
Friday, July 25, 2008 by I.R. Brainiac | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Clean install of Vista,latest vid drivers for geforce 8600.
Took 3 tries just to get WB to install...having to disable all antivirus and windows defender was bullcrap. 
Seemed to be fine after the 3rd time but on reboot today...the wrong skin is being used,WB loaded diamond with no window skinning at all...no frames,no buttons,classic menus.
Cant go back to aero,cant change skins,cant unload WB.This is not helping me get over my dislike of Vista...or skinning it.
Havnt even launched SKS6 yet...GOD help me. 
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.7
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.2 (build 102 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 GeForce 8600 GT
Wblind.dll 2008/07/22 10:08:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/07/22 10:11:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/07/22 10:10:32
Wbload.exe 2008/04/28 11:35:14
Wbhelp.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:07
Tray.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:21
Wbload.dll 2008/04/28 11:34:28
Screen.exe 2008/07/22 10:10:09
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Reply #22 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:00 PM
Please give Vista another shot, for your loyal fan base.
Also, download & install DirectX 9...Vista does not come with it installed.
Reply #23 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:04 PM
well then something is very weird because I had WB installed on Vista before and I didnt have to install DX9....
Reply #24 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:06 PM
cant run Vista...how to install? (
Reply #25 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:08 PM
Personaly, I hate UAC so I turn it off and leave it that way. Good concept...sucks in it's current state.
Reply #26 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:09 PM
There's always safe mode...F8 at boot up, choose safe mode.
Reply #27 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:13 PM
Reply #28 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:19 PM
I also had trouble installing WB from Impulse. My problem was WB want's a reboot every time Windows loads. It will not run at all. I uninstalled in SDC & reintalled from SDC and it works fine. Not sure that this tidbit of info helps you but knowing it couldn't hurt.
Reply #29 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:27 PM
Did the SDC bit...things just got worse.
Reply #30 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:33 PM
Reply #31 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:49 PM
Replaced the dll from XP into Vista...no luck...Vista boots but then you get errors and it wont let explorer run.
BYE bye WB and Vista...I only did this to vistafy my latest WB and Its not worth this much headache.
Aaaaaaaaaaah...good ole XP.
Reply #32 Friday, July 25, 2008 8:52 PM
Reply #33 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:01 PM
Bad Vista Karma. It knows you've talked shit about it.
Now you have little choice but to do a clean install of Vista.
Reply #34 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:21 PM
Reply #35 Friday, July 25, 2008 9:27 PM
*insert popcorn smiley here*
Reply #36 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:09 PM
No,it was fresh install on a seperate drive...ran fine til I installed WB.
Gone now...drive is nothing but storage...but joy o joy...XP now has classic frames and menus.(and no start menu mouseovers)
I had to do a boot wipe on the vista disk to reformat...then at least XP would touch it...XP wouldnt reformat a Vista disk.
This latest rc of WB is a POS...XP and Vista were on SEPERATE drives...not partitions.Common scenario here so far is using Impulse to download latest rc of WB on both OS's.
I'm about to quit skinning and go play video games.
3 days lost and I still have problems...and just when I was starting to not HATE Vista...this crap happens. 
Reply #37 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:11 PM
I would NEVER run Vista without backup from XP.
With good reason obviously...I wouldnt be here now without XP...Vista was screwed
Reply #38 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:22 PM
Left to itself, Vista runs fine (as does XP).
.....hate to say it, but, in not going one way or the other, you screwed yourself.....
Anyone up for a nice game of chess????????
Reply #39 Friday, July 25, 2008 10:28 PM
Took that drive...blanked it out and just installed vista...booted fine...could still choose XP from another drive.
Install WB.....kabloooie!
(suspicious that 2 seperate OS's on 2 seperate drives are now acting screwy after installing latest rc of WB)...hmmmmmmm? Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #21 Friday, July 25, 2008 7:55 PM
used the pc for 2 days getting vista set up properly...security updates etc...didnt have a prob til I installed WB thru impulse.
Uninstalled everything...tried the zapper,installed sdc,reinstalled WB(several times and now its worse than ever.
Even tried to scrub the registry but the registry enties wouldnt go away.