Glitchy Windowblinds, can not apply or change skins
Monday, June 21, 2010 by 3java3 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
For some reason I am not able to change skins, or to apply skins. It takes a minute to process a change, a lot longer than normal, but then WB wimps out and leaves me with the old skin still applied and will not let me go back to default aero unless I unload windowblinds, which takes me back to classic. Normally a change or an apply should only take perhaps 15 seconds. It even has 2 skins going at the same time, which is really really really weird and strange. I do not know what is going on here. I have not been doing any tweaking or messing around with the registry. I am using a Toshiba Satellite A305, which has a 2 ghz dual core processor, 3 gigs of RAM. Intel Centrino chip, and running Windows 7 Ultimate. 
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Reply #3 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:36 PM
June 8, 2010 is the last time I updated Windowblinds 7.0. Because of the update, my version went from 7.0 to 7.1.
Also, I wonder if installing Safari 5 from Apple has anything to do with my troubles? I doubt it, but it was the only recent software that I have added to my system in the last week or so, if my memory is correct. 
Reply #4 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 3:53 PM
That happened to me once, and a reboot fixed it. Have you tried that?
Reply #5 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:00 PM
This happens to me occasionally. Usually, I have to:
1. Apply Aero using WindowBlinds. This will usually give me the gray classic look, though.
2. Unload WindowBlinds.
3. Right-Click on the desktop and choose "Customize"
4. Choose an Aero theme. Note-this will also change your wallpaper.
5. While you're at it, make sure your window color is set to Aero.
6. Re-apply your WindowBlind.
I know this is squirly, but it works (for me). 
Reply #7 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:42 PM
Me too...a reboot was needed to un glitch it.
Lately WB has been very flaky about fonts mostly...dosnt want to apply the correct included fonts. 
Reply #8 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 4:44 PM
I noticed that too, some fonts kept reverting to Tahoma. 
Reply #9 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 6:55 PM
Lately WB has been very flaky about fonts mostly...dosnt want to apply the correct included fonts.
I noticed that too, some fonts kept reverting to Tahoma.
Which fonts?
Reply #10 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 7:16 PM
The menu fonts in Firefox, statusbar, right click menus, tooltips. I always had to go into the Windows appearance properties and manually change those to Segoe.
Reply #12 Tuesday, June 22, 2010 11:02 PM
Hmm. I've not noticed any font issues. Running WB on 2 different machines.
Reply #13 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 12:02 AM
Another fix for this is to install Windows XP...it works great with WindowBlinds! 
Reply #15 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:45 AM
Choice of the flat Earth society... 
Reply #16 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 2:51 AM
Check something in Windows task manager:
- Right-click the taskbar
- choose 'Task Manager' from the menu
- go to the 'processes' tab and sort them by 'image name' alphabetically
- see if you have WBVista.exe running twice (you shouldn't have)
I have this issue occasionally.
It is possible to kill one of those tasks (in my case I usually kill the one with the later PID) and WB then responds normally. There is a possibility you kill the wrong one though, in which case WB will not be able to skin your windows and you'll probably need a reboot.
Tim
Reply #17 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:51 AM
The skin author decides on those fonts and chances are the skin you are using did not set them to Segoe UI.
Setting them in appearance properties is not the right way to do this as they will be reset to whatever the skin has set on reboot.
Reply #18 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 5:52 AM
I am not aware of any problems with WB loading up fonts for those sections. They do not load from the cache files so it can't even be a corrupted cache file issue.
Reply #19 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 11:40 AM
I used segoe and calibri just about everywhere but those 3 locations.
Those were Vintage and hooge fonts and they get mess up a lot. (you notice a thing like that when you apply skins as much as we do)
A casual user might not notice the frequency or is using skins that stick to standard fonts.
Sometimes you could see them switch back and forth.Sometimes just opening WBconfig and not even applying could switch them.
Reply #20 Wednesday, June 23, 2010 3:36 PM
Well, I thought I had done a Unload Windowblinds. Then I rebooted. Tried again. Same issue. I had the default Aero and could not reskin and bring System into the Morph skin. Checking the task manager just now, I find 2 instances of WBVista.Exe. Most Interesting. I will do a test, kill the one on the bottom of the 2, and see what happens. 
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Reply #1 Monday, June 21, 2010 6:34 PM
When was the last time you updated Windows through Impulse?