A problem with Norton Utilities?
Thursday, November 22, 2001 by SPACEACE- | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I used to have the shareware version of WB and the Norton program boxes were skined with WB.I just installed the registered version of WB3 and now all of a sudden my Norton and my Display Properties boxes are not skinned (they just appear as that crappy old Windows classic style)Can anyone help me out with this problem?
kith
Reply #2 Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:19 PM
Reply #2 Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:19 PM
I have noticed the same thing with NU as Space Ace. However I must say that personally I am very happy with NU no longer being skinned. I always had problems with ghost images appearing and other oddities. I just don't think Norton takes well to skins. As to the why I'm sorry but I have no idea.
GreenReaper
Reply #3 Friday, November 23, 2001 12:04 AM
Reply #3 Friday, November 23, 2001 12:04 AM
Norton Utilities are not skinned because they do things in a non-standard way which cause bad things to happen when skinned. Display Properties is (currently) unskinned to ensure you have a way out if a skin is so bad that it crashes every window you display - usually because of a buggy DLL. You can change this by adding SkinDisplay=1 to the [Global] section of wb.ini in your Windows directory.
SpaceGhost
Reply #4 Friday, November 23, 2001 3:03 AM
Reply #4 Friday, November 23, 2001 3:03 AM
Wow! Thanks for the tip TheGreenReaper. Is it safe to change the wb.ini?
GreenReaper
Reply #6 Friday, November 23, 2001 9:06 AM
Reply #6 Friday, November 23, 2001 9:06 AM
Yes, it's reasonably safe, although it's probably best if you don't mess with any of the other settings there - most are just ones in the WB control panel, but some are special debugging ones that you don't normally need. Keep a backup if you're really paranoid. 
paxx
Reply #7 Friday, November 23, 2001 9:51 AM
Reply #7 Friday, November 23, 2001 9:51 AM
Cool, thanks TheGreenReaper! 
Now, is there a way to skin the Windows Security window (when you press Control+Alt+Delete)?
Now, is there a way to skin the Windows Security window (when you press Control+Alt+Delete)?
GreenReaper
Reply #8 Friday, November 23, 2001 11:40 PM
Reply #8 Friday, November 23, 2001 11:40 PM
I don't know of any way you can, currently. I'm not sure I'd personally want it to be, anyway (if your WB skin causes each window to crash, you'd *really* like to be able to bring up the WinSec panel without having it skin, right? *g*)
Of course, I might be proven wrong in the next ODNT update.
Of course, I might be proven wrong in the next ODNT update.
Frogboy
Reply #9 Saturday, November 24, 2001 12:10 AM
Reply #9 Saturday, November 24, 2001 12:10 AM
I took Norton out of my exclusion list and it works okay. WB tends to go on the side of being safe.
Jafo
Reply #10 Saturday, November 24, 2001 5:57 AM
Reply #10 Saturday, November 24, 2001 5:57 AM
Paxx....I always thought that the ctrl / alt / del window was NOT a function of the explorer shell, but part of the kernel....and maybe that was the reason it wasn't included in the skinnable bits of WB...
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Reply #1 Thursday, November 22, 2001 10:07 PM