Unusual problem
Friday, September 5, 2003 by Cyrus Khambatta | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
I run WindowBlinds 4.1, on a W2k machine. I had downloaded numerous windowblinds skins. I recently clean installed my system, installed WB again in the same folder, with all the themes. The old themes do not show. Any suggestions as to how I can let WB acknowledge the old skins? Do I have to edit the uis file? I don't have the .wba files, the program downloads & installed them automatically.
I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks.
I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks.
Cyrus Khambatta
Reply #2 Saturday, September 6, 2003 9:12 PM
Reply #2 Saturday, September 6, 2003 9:12 PM
Thanks, ChasUGC. I've solved the problem. What I meant by clean install, is while still retaining the old OS, files etc. This way, u can copy whatever u want to the new OS & then delete the old files. The problem was that WB installed to a different directory than before. I just copied my skins folders to the new directory & gung ho, everything's fine.
Thanks again.
Thanks again.
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Reply #1 Friday, September 5, 2003 10:24 PM
Now, if you somehow retained the old skin folders and you installed to the windowblinds folder then, you probably have a windowblind folder within a windowblind folder. Try this, find wbload.exe and copy one of your skin folders to the folder where wbload.exe resides. If this skin then shows in display properties, then you can move all your other skin folders to that folder.
Or, you can download a new wba and execute it. This way you will be sure that windowblinds is functioning properly. If the new one shows in display properties, then, I would suggest trying what I typed in the middle paragraph, and place all the old skin folders in the directory where the new one that you executed was transferred.