Upgrade problems with Windowblinds 6
Thursday, January 7, 2010 by TamsNails | Discussion: Windows 7
Hi All!
I have an hp Pavillion dv6t laptop I purchased in Sept '09. I am eligible for HP's upgrade to Win 7 for N/C. I am now having problems with Windowblinds and the upgrade's insistence in removing before I can upgrade. I have gone through the entire registry a million times, and all the little places it might be in Windows Explorer. Deleted all, emptied recycle bin, rebooted and it still says I cannot continue with upgrade until I remove all of Windowblinds! I'm going out of my mind!!! Anyone else have this problem? And anyone have any suggestions?
Thank sooooooo much,
Tammy
Reply #2 Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:28 PM
You could try the ODNT Zapper utility to see if it will remove any traces of WindowBlinds.
Reply #3 Friday, January 8, 2010 4:06 PM
Thanks for all your replys...after I posted, I went offline during the upgrade install, and just kept hammerin' away at the registry and Windows Explorer. I ended up getting it all out by doing a search of " wb*.* " and went through each piece by piece and the 7 install finally proceeded. But I sure do appreciate the suggestions! I will use them on my son's laptop if I run into the same problems!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!
Tammy
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Reply #1 Thursday, January 7, 2010 8:16 PM
I upgraded from Vista Home Premium 64 bit to Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit and I didn't get any notice to uninstall WindowBlinds. One thing I did though do was reset the skin back to default. I have Object Desktop so I in fact reset everything that change things like icons, cursor and what have you back to default before running the Win 7 update.
Don't know if this little bit of information will help.
EDIT: Just noticed you are talking about WB 6, I had WB 7 installed, sorry. If you reset the skin back to default before uninstalling you might want to try a clean up program like CCleaner, and use the Registry clean up function.