Windowblinds screen keeps popping up! Help me Lord Jesus!!
Tuesday, August 19, 2003 by Oil2003 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
How do you get that annoying windowblinds registration screen from popping up. Everytime I re-boot my computer and almost every day it pops up when I'm in the middle of something important! I had to finally unload windowblinds when I was going something over with a client and that WB registration screen popped up. I have 2 firewalls (windows and Norton) on my computer with a popup blocker and it still comes up. It was really embarassing for me when I was trying to do business and have that annoying thing come up. It's a good way to lose potential clients and I can't afford to lose them. >
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IPlural
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:12 PM
Reply #3 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:12 PM
Stardock hired Jesus, MAN talk about tech support!
Tryzub
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:01 PM
Reply #4 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:01 PM
Unbelievable, truly -- an end user complaining about utilizing unregistered software that is nagging him/her to register. Meanwhile, having the audacity to say that this behavior may cost clients (i.e., money). What are you - twelve?
Oh yeah, and popup blockers work for popups that webmasters have coded into their webpages (i.e., popup blockers block windows in web browsers), not popups from other types of programs.
Heh, tonight I'm not feelin' real patient with, or sympathetic to, someone using trialware on the same computer he/she uses for business. Dare I say Oil2003 is a freeloader? Nooo, I don't know his/her situation. It's only speculation at this point.
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Oh yeah, and popup blockers work for popups that webmasters have coded into their webpages (i.e., popup blockers block windows in web browsers), not popups from other types of programs.
Heh, tonight I'm not feelin' real patient with, or sympathetic to, someone using trialware on the same computer he/she uses for business. Dare I say Oil2003 is a freeloader? Nooo, I don't know his/her situation. It's only speculation at this point.
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Oil2003
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:19 PM
Reply #7 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:19 PM
It's not as easy as that. What exactly do you need to register windowblinds?
As far as Tryzub - how is it that I'm a freeloader? I'm using a free program on a computer which I use for both personal and business use at home.
Is it possible to have trial software with no annoying popups? All that does it get the user mad enough to quit using the program and not register it (which is something that a lot of people can't do anyway) I had to unload windowblinds and quit using it and start using StyleXP - a 100% free program with free downloads.
BTW - why is it so hard to type in this message box? The text cursor keeps popping up to the top of the box.
As far as Tryzub - how is it that I'm a freeloader? I'm using a free program on a computer which I use for both personal and business use at home.
Is it possible to have trial software with no annoying popups? All that does it get the user mad enough to quit using the program and not register it (which is something that a lot of people can't do anyway) I had to unload windowblinds and quit using it and start using StyleXP - a 100% free program with free downloads.
BTW - why is it so hard to type in this message box? The text cursor keeps popping up to the top of the box.
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:29 PM
Reply #8 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:29 PM
I sent them a money order with a handwritten order form.Click on the windowblinds section and there is a link there for ordering WB.
Jafo
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:31 PM
Reply #9 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:31 PM
StyleXP isn't a 'program'...it's an unauthorized dll hack that enables the use of simplistic unsigned veriations of the default Window GUI look...nothing more.
The purpose of a 'reminder' is to remind you [curiously enough] to register [pay for] the shareware program you obviously were sufficiently interested in as to install it on 2 computers.
Were you to register the proggy you'd bypass/eliminate your solitary reason for complaint about a program that is far superior in function and capability than what can be achieved by a simple library hack that very probably voids your EULA which can be of real concern on a commercially used computer....
WasupBoy
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:41 PM
Reply #10 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:41 PM
You have no choice man.. Either bear with it, or buy it :/ i keep it up though.. i just wait for new version to come out and BOOM i dl it/install/and make my friend give the good looking skin to me 
uh.. i think its ok?
WasupBoy sits infront of his computer, puzzled
uh.. i think its ok?WasupBoy sits infront of his computer, puzzled
WasupBoy
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:43 PM
Reply #11 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:43 PM
Oh and i forgot to mension 
StyleXp is a program :/ and is authorized and Microsoft knows it. However, they make you pay for it after 30 days.. O well my friend and i urged out a cd key generator 
but i don't use it.. sometimes it slows down the computer while im playing Games/Using internet. I'd rather keep the Blue Winxp style 
However, i need the wallpaper and Ikonpackager from WC with out question 
StyleXp is a program :/ and is authorized and Microsoft knows it. However, they make you pay for it after 30 days.. O well my friend and i urged out a cd key generator 
but i don't use it.. sometimes it slows down the computer while im playing Games/Using internet. I'd rather keep the Blue Winxp style 
However, i need the wallpaper and Ikonpackager from WC with out question 
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #12 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:45 PM
Reply #12 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:45 PM
I think he installed it on only 1 PC.One that does double-duty.Oil its worth registering,the program skins more if its registered.Then you can see the cool scrollbars I made. 
WasupBoy
Reply #13 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:48 PM
Reply #13 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:48 PM
WasupBoy cries I CAN'T SEE THE SCROLLBARs!! NOooooo!
I.R. Brainiac
Reply #14 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:57 PM
Reply #14 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:57 PM
Shameless plug...https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=3456
as fine a scrollbar as you can get.hehe
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as fine a scrollbar as you can get.hehe
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sig101
Reply #15 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:29 PM
Reply #15 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:29 PM
What's a tad ironic is when in a previous thread Bliss asked if WB is worth buying Oil's response was that he wouldn't "pay for garbage." So, if it's "garbage" why the heck is it on his PC to begin with? And in a unregistered, feature limited version with a known nag screen? And then he complains because (horrors) the nag screen comes up during a business presentation and he was "embarrassed?"
Hey, if someone is doing a presentation for a client one would think the common sense thing to do for a true pro is to ensure the only software running is appropriate in a business situation where you don't want to look like a bozo. Whether it's WB shareware or a dancing nudie animation with a clock in its stomach, turn it off, unload it, uninstall it, whatever.
Another instance of a user induced issue being blamed on a software program.
Hey, if someone is doing a presentation for a client one would think the common sense thing to do for a true pro is to ensure the only software running is appropriate in a business situation where you don't want to look like a bozo. Whether it's WB shareware or a dancing nudie animation with a clock in its stomach, turn it off, unload it, uninstall it, whatever.
Another instance of a user induced issue being blamed on a software program.
Cavanaugh
Reply #16 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:55 PM
Reply #16 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:55 PM
why exactly do you run 2 firewalls? so you can block specific ports twice?
Tryzub
Reply #17 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:16 PM
Reply #17 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:16 PM
It's obvious Oil will get no sympathy from any of us. Suffice to say, pay for the shareware program or stop using it. As someone else mentioned, StyleXP is not freeware either. In addition, if you took the time to truly try WindowBlinds 4.x, you might find it useful...especially without the nags screens.
Alexandrie
Reply #18 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:05 PM
Reply #18 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:05 PM
Style XP is not free, and if you have a free copy it's a pirated copy
and this is.... bad! >
The DJ
Reply #19 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:21 PM
Reply #19 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:21 PM
Alexandrie, what is the name of that skin in your profile?
Sugaree
Reply #20 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:33 PM
And this is a person that has clients?
Oil, just follow the instructions on that "Annoying Registration Screen"
Reply #20 Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:33 PM
| It's not as easy as that. What exactly do you need to register windowblinds? |
And this is a person that has clients?
Oil, just follow the instructions on that "Annoying Registration Screen"
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Reply #1 Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:08 PM