WindowBlinds 3.5A Expiration

Saturday, May 31, 2003 by Stardock Central | Discussion: WinCustomize News

There may be a problem with certain builds of WindowBlinds 3.5A expiring. We will have a new build of WB 3.5 available on Monday for those affected. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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eidylon
Reply #21 Monday, June 2, 2003 9:02 AM
The WB4-instead argument wouldn't work ... unless they already have it ready to go. The expiry removal will be a quick and easy fix (or should be), where as the WB4 upwork is not nearly so.

So ill be waiting in anticip for the 3.5 fix for now until the WB4 bit. Do need SOMEthing to tide us over.

tww
Reply #22 Monday, June 2, 2003 10:10 AM
All those in favor of Stardock providing free upgrades to Windowblinds 4.0 for registered WindowBlinds users to compensate for the hassle and time we all spent trying to fix the damn thing before finally seeing the "expiration notice" vote yes. Fat chance eh!

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Reply #23 Monday, June 2, 2003 11:15 AM
Monday 17:15 PM here ... and still nothing ... >

Einstein
Reply #24 Monday, June 2, 2003 11:51 AM
Get real ppl !
Free upgrades to WB4 for those of us using Win2000 is ridiculous. Besides that will be MONTHS from now. I want my skins back sooner rather than later.

I'm just hoping the "fix" will be available on OD because SDC isn't available for me. Someone up at the corporate firewall blocked the domain stardock.com and I can't get anything except news.stardock.com which I believe is coming on a different port. So If OD ever goes away - I will too I fear.

I'm thinking that this whole "timeout" bug was a ploy to find out how many non WinXP users are out there and are passionate about WB. It is like a drug and I need my skinning fix.

Thanks all!

Orion
Reply #25 Monday, June 2, 2003 11:51 AM
Two days without WB? Big deal...what a bunch of whining babies. I'm glad they found the problem and are fixing it. Meanwhile, I'm just using WB4. Glad to see you're on top of it Stardock.

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Reply #26 Monday, June 2, 2003 12:12 PM
I wonder how, if it's just a "limitation date limit" in any part of the software, this is not corrected at this time ... ??? so one line of code to get rid off ??? what a long job to do ...

tmaxx
Reply #27 Monday, June 2, 2003 12:14 PM
. . . and Photoshop 7.0 stopped working at the same time . . . hmmmmmmmm . . .




Behr
Reply #28 Monday, June 2, 2003 12:23 PM
Been using WB since it first was introduced and since then have only had to upgrade from OD.Methinks this is an excercise by Stardock to see how many of us are NOT on XP so they can establish whether releasing WB4 is worth the effort of not.It is worth the effort,given the number of messags up here and the thousands that may not have put up a message. XP users comments also noted...don't get elitist on us lower mortals..we love our WB and are not whinging without good reason. We paid for our version of WB too and it ough not to expire.!!Our money is as good as your XP and probalby funded the WB4 improvements cum to that

Neil Banfield
Reply #29 Monday, June 2, 2003 1:11 PM

I can assure you it was not intentional and we are working on the fix.


While its only 3-4 lines thats causing the issue, we have to test it and build installers & test those out before we can update it.  Plus the problem occured over a weekend which also delayed things.


Dagoz
Reply #30 Monday, June 2, 2003 1:30 PM
Release the WB4 to compensate for our suffering!


GreenReaper
Reply #31 Monday, June 2, 2003 1:47 PM
They can't release something they don't have yet.

Graagh
Reply #32 Monday, June 2, 2003 3:06 PM
You people are such whiners! They've found the problem and are working on a fix, for which you should be grateful. They already apologized for any inconvenience.

Everybody who's never made a mistake before, raise your hand.... Yeah, that's what I thought.

Bender50
Reply #33 Monday, June 2, 2003 3:50 PM
Thanks, Stardock, for your quick response to unforunate
incident, considering the weekend, you all did a fine job.

Dagoz
Reply #34 Monday, June 2, 2003 3:51 PM
We shouldn't be grateful for something that is our right. Remember that when we paid for that program the least thing that we expected is for it to work properly.

[email protected]
Reply #35 Monday, June 2, 2003 4:00 PM

I believe I've got all the enhanced, ODNT, and Stardock Central installers properly updated now. Use the form at https://www.stardock.com/support to get the enhanced links and serials or your CM/SDC as appropriate.


Customers who's ODNT subscriptions have expired, please contact [email protected] with your serial. They have a link that you can use with the CM to get 3.51.


Any other specific questions on this, email [email protected] rather than support. They have enough with the people who aren't reading here for info on this matter.


Ogy Ego
Reply #36 Monday, June 2, 2003 4:01 PM
NOTE!!!!

FOR EVERYONE WAITING TO GET UPDATE ON WB3.5 ITS OUT NOW!!! YOU HAVE TO DOWNLOAD STARDOCK CENTRAL AND UPDATE THE WHOLE THING FROM THERE...

THEY ARE REALLY AMASING...

THANX A LOT FOR EVERYTHING...

tww
Reply #37 Monday, June 2, 2003 4:04 PM
So did I miss something Bender50 - what quick response? I still don't see an fixed version posted anywhere.

Einstein - I have loads of shareware on my computer that the original purchase price included updates for a year or more. It pisses me off that I have to fork over more money for the updated version only 4 or 5 months after I purchased WindowBlinds.


tww
Reply #38 Monday, June 2, 2003 4:20 PM
Thanks Ogy Ego - yup that was pretty fast correction of the problem.
Good work Stardock staff.

[email protected]
Reply #39 Monday, June 2, 2003 4:48 PM
You do NOT have to use Stardock Central to update, though we do encourage it. The standalone builds are available for registered users as always and the build on the older CM has been updated as well.

GraveDigger
Reply #40 Monday, June 2, 2003 9:23 PM
Put me down as another confused WindowBlinds user - I've just reinstalled a Norton Ghost copy of my harddisk and was shocked to see that my WindowBlinds wasn't working correctly - even when I installed it on a different machine - I was also afraid that I might have inadvertly gotten a virus - thank goodness that it wasn't as serious as I had thought. Now I've just got to download the updated files.

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