can't uninstall windowsblinds

Thursday, April 22, 2004 by kmg1978 | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

i uninstalled windowsblinds, but the UI or is still installed on my system (in the control panel), and i can''t see how to get rid of it. b/c it''s still installed, i can''t get my machine to look the way it did before windowsblinds - it''s running the windows classic theme, which i don''t want. does anyone know how to get this off the machine?
thanks.
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yrag
Reply #1 Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:17 PM
Yeah....https://www.stardock.com/files/odnt_zapper.exe



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kmg1978
Reply #2 Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:33 PM
that program didn''t work. anything else?

yrag
Reply #3 Thursday, April 22, 2004 1:45 PM
Go into Display Properties/Appearance and change it to XP Style....you should have done that before you un-installed WB. You now may have to re-install WB, set to XP Style in DP and then un-install WB.



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kmg1978
Reply #4 Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:15 PM
i reinstalled WB, tried to set it to XP style, but apparently that doesn''t exist anymore. i set it to winxp style, but it replies that it couldn''t be applied in a timely manner, and defaults back to windows classic.

yrag
Reply #5 Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:31 PM
Did you have any other shell proggies installed before you installed WB?



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kmg1978
Reply #6 Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:46 PM
no, not sure what those may be. i installed object dock before WB though.

yrag
Reply #7 Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:57 PM
No...Object Dock wouldn''t be doing anything. The proggies I''m asking about are apps like StyleXP and others that hack your XP kernel file. I''m not quite sure what you''re looking at in Control Panel after you un-install WB, but that skin your looking for should be here:C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes\Luna...is it there?



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kmg1978
Reply #8 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:10 PM
yeah, it''s there. but i can''t see it when i go into display properties.

yrag
Reply #9 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:14 PM
Open up the Luna folder and double click Luna Visual Styles file .....

NightTrainthedark
Reply #10 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:15 PM
Gary I refuse to get in the middle but I just want to ask the obvius question that has been missed so far.
Just how are you going about uninstalling WB? Are you using add / remove programs or stardock central?
Wondering what you see in the control panel also.

kmg1978
Reply #11 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:18 PM
i''ve tried two ways:
1. i uninstalled using add/remove programs.
2. stardock cleanup, which is linked above.

is there anything else?

yrag
Reply #12 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:22 PM
Hmmmm....why don''t I see Stardock Central mentioned anywhere?

yrag
Reply #13 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:24 PM
kmg1978 - I thought you only had WB installed, but you mentioned Object Dock...how did you install these?

yrag
Reply #14 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:43 PM
BTW: NightTrain...any time you see me forgetting a detail, feel free to give me a wake up call......I''''m gettin'''' too old for this ....ah...stuff

.....I don''''t know why, but I feel like ''''Mr Greenjeans'''' today..






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NightTrainthedark
Reply #15 Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:46 PM
@ gary I just don''t want anyone to get the impression that I have the ability to help them.

kmg1978
Reply #16 Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:39 PM
i haven''t used stardock central. what is it? will it help?

you asked how i installed object dock - i downloaded the program, double clicked it, and installed. is there some additional installation method?

kmg1978
Reply #17 Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:42 PM
i just found out about stardock central - no, i didn''t use it.

i tried to restore my machine to an earlier date - but that didn''t help. now i''m starting to get conflicts w/ object dock, so i can''t even show my windows taskbar anymore (it had the autohide feature set on the taskbar, and since everytime i try to start objectdock it fails, i can''t access the taskbar at all.) what is going on?!

kmg1978
Reply #18 Thursday, April 22, 2004 7:47 PM
there was no Luna Visual Styles file. in the luna folder, there is a luna.msstyles file, but when i click that, i get the following error: "The visual styles could not be applied. The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion."

NightTrainthedark
Reply #19 Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:00 PM
I would highly suggest that you email support at stardock.com as is this is not a support site for stardock products. You will probably be helped faster if you go that route. Hope it helps.

yrag
Reply #20 Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:03 PM
Re-read #7 - did you install StyleXP or some other hack program to change your Visual before installing Window Blinds??



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