Window Blinds Dillema?!?! Crashing...Help
Thursday, September 6, 2001 by Alex Black | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I installed window blinds on my win 98 se seems to cause a lot of crashing....
Any recommendations as to why?
Help
Any recommendations as to why?
Help
Alex Black
Reply #2 Saturday, September 8, 2001 12:36 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, September 8, 2001 12:36 PM
I am using a ATI Radeon 64 DDR
with the up to date drivers. Its still crashing that and control center.
with the up to date drivers. Its still crashing that and control center.
AJCrowley
Reply #3 Saturday, September 8, 2001 2:32 PM
Reply #3 Saturday, September 8, 2001 2:32 PM
It's also possible that you're using a skin file with some nasty errors in it, I know that's caused me some fun in the past.
feline
Reply #4 Monday, September 10, 2001 11:18 AM
Reply #4 Monday, September 10, 2001 11:18 AM
try lowering the hardware acceleration on your graphics card. if this fixes it then it is almost certinally a video driver issue
Alex Black
Reply #5 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:59 AM
Reply #5 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:59 AM
well these are my symptoms.
Ram gets sucked up a lot by window blinds.
I have 256 MEgs of Ram
I get Crashes a lot when using window blinds or even more when I use window blinds with control center.
I am using 800 mhz P3, win 98 se, 256 Megs of Ram, 60 gig 7200RPM @ 8.5 seek time.
Ati Radeon 64 DDR
Ram gets sucked up a lot by window blinds.
I have 256 MEgs of Ram
I get Crashes a lot when using window blinds or even more when I use window blinds with control center.
I am using 800 mhz P3, win 98 se, 256 Megs of Ram, 60 gig 7200RPM @ 8.5 seek time.
Ati Radeon 64 DDR
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Reply #6 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:19 AM
Reply #6 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 3:19 AM
yeah windowblinds dont seem to like win98 and me. i just upgraded to xp and got wb again, its pretty much acting like native to windows lol. ( ie: no errors, slowdown, or gobble resources at all )
kith
Reply #7 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:47 AM
Reply #7 Wednesday, September 12, 2001 7:47 AM
Alex,
I have a similar set up and do not have persistant problems. The problems I have had are usually due to some program being skinned that doesn't want to be skinned. If you notice something in particular that is loading at the time of the crash or you get a dialogue box that gives you any clues it would be very helpful. You can create rules and tell Windowblinds not to skin a particular program. If you are certain you are running out of resources, which seems strange at 256K, check out how much stuff you have loading at start-up using MSCONFIG from the RUN command. I use Cacheman to control how memory is used and have no problem recomending it. Use the available presets first and then tweak from there. Make sure to reboot after each change. Link below, good luck...
http://www.outertech.com/
Bill
I have a similar set up and do not have persistant problems. The problems I have had are usually due to some program being skinned that doesn't want to be skinned. If you notice something in particular that is loading at the time of the crash or you get a dialogue box that gives you any clues it would be very helpful. You can create rules and tell Windowblinds not to skin a particular program. If you are certain you are running out of resources, which seems strange at 256K, check out how much stuff you have loading at start-up using MSCONFIG from the RUN command. I use Cacheman to control how memory is used and have no problem recomending it. Use the available presets first and then tweak from there. Make sure to reboot after each change. Link below, good luck...
http://www.outertech.com/
Bill
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Reply #1 Thursday, September 6, 2001 5:34 PM