WindowBlinds 5 Trouble Already =(
Why Wont it Work?!
Tuesday, October 4, 2005 by xxZeroVirusxx | Discussion: WindowBlinds
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WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
WindowBlinds is not installed correctly on this PC. If you did not reboot after installing WindowBlinds 5 for the first time, then please reboot and try this again.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
If you suffer visible corruption (overbright) on the frames and have a NVIDIA board then please be aware this is a NVIDIA bug. It has been seen on GeForce 4 cards and some FX series cards.
Video Information
You have one monitor in total.
(Gateway VX700) 1 is attached to RADEON 9600 PRO Family (Microsoft Corporation)
'RADEON 9600 PRO SEC Family (Microsoft Corporation)' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAY2', but is not attached to the desktop.
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
PLEASE report all this information when submitting a problem report, especially anything related to per-pixel skinning. We don't know what's in that Dell you bought last July or the notebook the office gave you. Per-pixel skinning requires your drivers to at least claim to support the functions needed for it.
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Isn't installed correctly?! So I uninstalled it, then reinstalled it, and rebooted again. Still, same problem, same message.
By the by, I have Windows XP x64. Is this going to be a problem?
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Reply #62 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:40 PM
Reply #63 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:40 PM
Oh, but thanks for the 64 update. I hope you're happy soon
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Reply #65 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:50 PM
) and nothing seems to work whatsoever. Hope there's a fix coming out soon! 
Reply #66 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:53 PM
Reply #67 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:53 PM
WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
If you suffer visible corruption (overbright) on the frames and have a NVIDIA board then please be aware this is a NVIDIA bug. It has been seen on GeForce 4 cards and some FX series cards.
Video Information
You have one monitor in total.
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
PLEASE report all this information when submitting a problem report, especially anything related to per-pixel skinning. We don't know what's in that Dell you bought last July or the notebook the office gave you. Per-pixel skinning requires your drivers to at least claim to support the functions needed for it.
Reply #68 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:54 PM
But, first Wb5 build (4.90[b].002) with GeForce4 & FX5200 --> corruption (overbright)
and, second Wb5 build (4.90a[b].002) with GeForce4 & FX5200 --> NO corruption (overbright)
Reply #69 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:55 PM
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Reply #72 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:58 PM
WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.
If you suffer visible corruption (overbright) on the frames and have a NVIDIA board then please be aware this is a NVIDIA bug. It has been seen on GeForce 4 cards and some FX series cards.
Video Information
You have one monitor in total.
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
'Intel(R) 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAY2', but is not attached to the desktop.
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
Reply #73 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:59 PM
It's been less than 3 hours here since it went up. And it's suddenly got a lot more users than in testing.
We've done a 4.90a build with a fix we were able to find for the nvidia driver issue. Please update to that and it should sort the over-bright saturation, can't drag the window issue. Make sure you reboot.
There's a problem reported with the winzip main interface, but not the context menus. We'll be looking at that. One or two reports above of issues with machines prior to SP2 (rundll32 issues?), will check into that as well. This isn't an x64 beta build. The systray icon is not present in this build. We'll look into the AIM Messenger:Mate problem. If you have ghost images on the taskbar, screenshot that and note if locking/unlocking the taskbar makes any difference.
If in doubt, set the skin to classic, remove the files from the WindowBlinds dir (you can keep the subdirs with your skins), rename any that are left, reboot, remove any files that were left in the root of the WB dir, reinstall 4.90a or later, reboot. Run wbconfig.exe to select a skin and get started.
Activate.exe from the SDCentral dir needs to be able to get to the internet at install time to activate the beta build (there will be a sig.bin in the directory after it does that). You can right-click on the WB5 item in Stardock Central and force it to try and activate, but do it too many times and it'll stop. Email [email protected] if you pass the threshold. Or if the sig.bin isn't there, find the activate.log from the SDCentral dir and email it to [email protected].
If Stardock Central is exiting at the end of the install, you didn't let it update to the latest version. Please let it do so or reinstall it from http://storage.stardock.com/files/sdcentral_setup.exe.
These files should be in the WindowBlinds dir. There are others, but these are the ones with the mojo, so to speak.
9/05/05 19:14 90,624 wbui.dll
9/06/05 15:26 167,936 wbdb.dll
9/06/05 18:04 232,960 wbload.exe
10/03/05 13:44 49,152 Screen.exe
varies sig.bin
10/04/05 16:18 172,032 WbSrv.dll
varies Skins.mdb
10/04/05 20:11 276,992 wbconfig.exe
10/04/05 23:20 500,818 wblind.dll
SkinStudio 4.90 should be available for download by the time you read this.
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Reply #80 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 7:23 PM
| If in doubt, set the skin to classic, remove the files from the WindowBlinds dir (you can keep the subdirs with your skins), rename any that are left, reboot, remove any files that were left in the root of the WB dir, reinstall 4.90a or later, reboot. Run wbconfig.exe to select a skin and get started. |
I did all of that, and still nothing. "Apply Skin" does nothing, and there's some black spots like a user said previously.
It activated right too (I saw in the status message part where it normally says "Downloading", "Activating..." then "Activated Successfully").
I know it's still beta, but I got really hyped about it.. So in all honesty it's quite a disappointment. However, I'm sure SD is doing all it can to resolve the issue.
Complaining wont solve anything, so I'll leave it as that.
And if it's of any relevance, in Component Tray, it lists "Window Blinds" AND "Window Blinds 5", there's also no uninstall option in Add/Remove programs..
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Reply #61 Tuesday, October 4, 2005 6:39 PM