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 #2 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:42 PM
Reply #4 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:56 PM
Noticed that you have an NVIDIA card, do you have nView turned off?
Could it be the drivers? Maybe go back to the last ones and see if that works.
It sounds like you have all ready tried an uninstall, reboot and reinstall, if not give that a shot with running CCleaner in between in case you just have a bad download.
You have probably tried all of these things by now.
Reply #5 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:57 PM
Reply #6 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:15 PM
Shouldn't even had to do that....what else are you running??
Reply #7 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:27 PM
The only service related to nvidia is the display driver service.
Now I have 3 different skins being used at once.
this is the only set of display drivers that have been installed...this is a brand new OS install.
Reply #8 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:29 PM
Reply #9 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:29 PM
Never had to disable AVG on XP.Or any nvidia stuff either. (
Reply #10 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:30 PM
3 times already NT.
Reply #11 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:33 PM
...and you don't have to on Vista either.
Open TaskManager....screen.exe running?
Reply #12 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:39 PM
Install it from SDC would be my guess.
Reply #13 Friday, July 25, 2008 4:39 PM
Reply #17 Friday, July 25, 2008 5:09 PM
Please let us know what other skinning software you have installed/running too.
Reply #18 Friday, July 25, 2008 5:44 PM
I've also tried to repro this here to no avail. I've installed WB clean from Impulse, using the US-1 server, rebooted, then applied a skin after rebooting without a problem.
Do you mean that simply opening wbconfig.exe would prompt WB to change skins, or do you mean that it would change skins again after restarting your computer?
Do you have MyColors installed on there too? (No known problems, just curious to know for reference purposes)
Mike
Reply #19 Friday, July 25, 2008 7:08 PM
Tried to completely uninstall impulse,WB...reboot,reinstallWB,reboot and now Vista will not run...get some wierd cannot find dxsomething .dll...explorer goes into a restart loop.
Even after uninstalling WB and rebooting again.
Vista is now completely unusable with just aero loaded...no Stardock progs but SDC.
Cant fix Vista so I'm giving up and back in XP.
Reply #20 Friday, July 25, 2008 7:54 PM
Could it be possible that something got messed up with the clean install of Vista?
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Reply #1 Friday, July 25, 2008 3:41 PM
Then I got diamond on start menu and toolbar,and aero metal for frames...mmmmmmmm special.