Problems during update to WB5 4.96[b].003
WB5 4.96[b].003
Monday, November 14, 2005 by lzvk25 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
This morning as soon as I finished the update WB5 to 4.96[b].003 and rebooted, my machine started to display this message :
WindowBlinds cannot start
WindowBlinds is currently not installed properly
If you have just installed WindowBlinds, please endure you rebooted after the istallation as the installer suggested.
OK
And even if I rebooted again, and again, and again, it still appeared.
So I decided to uninstall WB5 and reinstall it. Big mistake, my machine started to crawl like never before and only after I removed "wbsrv.dll" from the winlogon section from my startup programs (using "autoruns" from Sysinternals.com), I was able to at least have my PC control back, of course without WB5.
The previous version was working like a charm.
This is starting to get annoying, this is just another case of careless testing before relasing another update. Any ideas on how to let the big people at Stardock know about these faulty releases ?
Thanks
WindowBlinds cannot start
WindowBlinds is currently not installed properly
If you have just installed WindowBlinds, please endure you rebooted after the istallation as the installer suggested.
OK
And even if I rebooted again, and again, and again, it still appeared.
So I decided to uninstall WB5 and reinstall it. Big mistake, my machine started to crawl like never before and only after I removed "wbsrv.dll" from the winlogon section from my startup programs (using "autoruns" from Sysinternals.com), I was able to at least have my PC control back, of course without WB5.
The previous version was working like a charm.
This is starting to get annoying, this is just another case of careless testing before relasing another update. Any ideas on how to let the big people at Stardock know about these faulty releases ?
Thanks
CerebroJD
Reply #2 Monday, November 14, 2005 7:05 PM
Reply #2 Monday, November 14, 2005 7:05 PM
For future reference, you DONT need to delete your skins. When you are 'cleaning out' the WB folder, just delete all of the files, and NOT the skins folders. Then simply install, run, and voila! Your skins will still be there in WB. Sorry you had to lose them all... 
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Reply #1 Monday, November 14, 2005 5:11 PM
And of course I will have to reload ALL the skins I had. This is really becoming annoying and frustrating.
Now the thing is that the updater is not doing anything to wbsrv.dll.