Why doesnt Winblinds skin the Display properties in XP
Monday, January 21, 2002 by pbirkett | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Why is that? I have asked this question before but simply got the answer "it does on mine". It used to skin it in W2k. It is WBlind 3.1
pbirkett
Reply #2 Monday, January 21, 2002 7:57 AM
Reply #2 Monday, January 21, 2002 7:57 AM
That makes sense. I wonder why this protection is not integrated in Windows 2k.
davad70
Reply #3 Monday, January 21, 2002 8:00 AM
Reply #3 Monday, January 21, 2002 8:00 AM
Because Display properties wasn't the interface used to change skins, I believe.
feline
Reply #4 Monday, January 21, 2002 11:10 AM
Reply #4 Monday, January 21, 2002 11:10 AM
as i understand it WB isnt so tightly integrated into win2k as it is in winXP, so if you applied a bad skin it would be easier to get out of it in win2k
leqin
Reply #5 Monday, January 21, 2002 12:47 PM
Reply #5 Monday, January 21, 2002 12:47 PM
Under WinXP Windowblinds is accessed via the display properties dialog. Prior that, with other versions of Windows, Windowblinds was a seperate application. A bad skin can really screw things up,especially when you are a new user and your nice new XP install got totaly trashed - who you gonna blame ... brad wardell (sung to the theme from Ghostbusters). Stardock being wise decided obviously nobody sits as their pc looking at the display properties dialog all day long, apart from themers and skinners, so just to be safe it can be left unskinned - but if you really want it done it only takes adding the line above into wb.ini and it is skinned for you.
pbirkett
Reply #6 Monday, January 21, 2002 5:23 PM
Reply #6 Monday, January 21, 2002 5:23 PM
OK, thanx everyone for the advice, I found it a little puzzling at first, but now it makes perfect sense.
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Reply #1 Monday, January 21, 2002 7:37 AM