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 #83 Monday, August 4, 2008 1:45 AM
I phoned tech support the other day, and it was he who suggested that AVG might be blocking WB. I uninstalled AVG, but was stuck with no anti-virus unless I found an alternative. So, I emailed the guy back and asked what I should do. He suggested allowing WB as an exception in AVG. Took some messing around, but I got it to work finally.
This is what I did:
I opened AVG, went to "resident shield", clicked on "manage exceptions", added the path C:\Program Files\Stardock and vuala! It worked! Rebooted several times and applied different skins to make sure. Everything seems to work great so far.
Anywho, hope that helps.
I'm using AVG 8 free version.
Reply #84 Monday, August 4, 2008 2:36 AM
Waddya think um made o' money here?
Reply #85 Monday, August 4, 2008 8:34 AM
My bad....WTF was I thinkin'..............
Reply #86 Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:10 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.
Hello brainiac,
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Reply #87 Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:26 PM
This post is 3 years old. Issue has been resolved a long time ago.
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Reply #81 Monday, August 4, 2008 1:11 AM