Help!! WB is messing up my computer!! (with screenshots)
I don't know what to do anymore... I tried everything!
Friday, December 16, 2005 by Link632 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
I have been using WB5 for about 4 days now and I haven't gotten any types of errors, whatsoever, up until a few hours ago.. I didn't even do a thing! I was using Mormegil's ChristmasTime theme (and ran it for 4 days without errors), then when I decided to come to WinCustomize.com to browse for new Objects and such, my computer hung up on me! I don't know if that had anything to do with my visiting wincustomize.com, but it couldn't have been a virus or a spyware because I just performed a general maintenance on my computer a few hours earlier (and I have been doing that since January).. Then I restarted my computer using the button on my CPU and when I entered my Windows XP account, the entire "start" bar below (the whole thing, not just the start button, but the entire bar -- sorry, i have no idea what it's called) didn't even show up! The only thing that showed up was the digital clock, and that's it.. Ok, hold on.. I don't know where I'm going anymore. I think it's better if I just show you a screenshot and maybe you can just help me out and tell me what's wrong (also, I tried uninstalling+re-installing WB5, but apparently, that didn't fix my problem)..
http://tinypic.com/ionkf5.jpg
That's my whole screen.. No "start button" and the entire "bar" at the bottom of the screen is messed up! WB also got rid of my Windows XP theme.. I tried accessing through desktop/right-click/bah blah but then that didn't work.. all it's showing me is nothing (sorry, I'm really, really sleepy and i have been trying to fix this problem since 5 PM (and now it's about (9:00).. so, that should explain why my grammar is skewed. i haven't even eaten yet!) I tried righ clicking on "My Computer" and going to "Manage" / "Services" / etc. (as one poster explained in another thread), but that didn't work -- it didn't bring my Windows XP theme back..
Please help me! I am totally clueless about what's going on! And once again, excuse the grammar. I'm typing this up real fast because I'm about to collapse.. 
I really hope you guys can help me! Please!
Moderator Note:
This issue is caused by the cracked version of WindowBlinds. Don't run the cracked version of WindowBlinds and this won't happen.
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Reply #102 Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:44 PM
| first off: i have a warezed copy |
Go home, Man.... 
Reply #103 Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:57 PM
Reply #104 Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:57 PM
How many among 9,000,000+ users claimed by Stardock using a warez copy of WB5?
Reply #105 Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:04 PM
Is anyone awared of where WB5 cracked files came from?
Can it be from some hackers? but how can they embed the time bomb or counter in the binary files to make your PC feel sticky like crazy after sometime?
Can i say that's just a dirty countered software piracy from.......
Reply #107 Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:10 PM
WB5, WB6, or WBx...... will be cracked no matter how greedy company is going to be!
The more protection? the less attraction and so the less sale
BILL's rule: use it as freely as you can but DO NOT MAKE ANY ILLEGAL TRANSACTION.
Reply #108 Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:45 PM
banruptcy: Stardock had nothing to do with that crack.
As it happens we have spent a considerable amount of time since release getting warez versions of WB removed from the internet.
Reply #109 Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:58 PM
Reply #110 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:03 PM
Reply #112 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:06 PM
Vanilla Ice: You could indeed get one of those 84,000 cracks and guess what? They will all have the same problem. Now, someone might be able to properly crack it but then again, users will have to sift through those 84,000 other cracks to find one that works correctly. Good luck.
If you install binary patches to low level software such as WindowBlinds, bad things are likely to happen.
WindowBlinds is NOT doing anything to your system. It is the patch taht did it. It patches out very key code in there that cause WindowBlinds to no longer be able to paint bitmaps.
Blaming Stardock is absurd. It would be like someone binary patching the Windows XP kernel and complaining to Microsoft that the OS won't boot anymore.
Reply #113 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:08 PM
| It would be like someone binary patching the Windows XP kernel and complaining to Microsoft that the OS won't boot anymore. |
That rings a bell.....
Reply #115 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:17 PM
sorting through 84,000 cracks would be hard. you're right. but only people new to pirating would do that. the millions of others will have no problem. if you can just go to any one warez/crack site and keep an eye on new releases, then you'll see when the better-patched version comes out. or just when you go to a crack DB, download the latest patch instead of an older one. it'll likely even be called the "proper" crack.
as i said i've used patched kernels and patched uxtheme's and patched everything else for forever and had no problems. the ones who get problems are mostly just people who don't know what they're doing. downloading the SP1 kernel when they have SP2 or something. but witht aht said, i have to use patched kernels because BootSkin crashes my computer...
Reply #116 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:24 PM
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Purchase+Windowblinds+5&word2=Windowblinds+5+crack
LMAO
Reply #118 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:33 PM
| heh, so the patch changed the code that allows it to paint properly. but it waited until now to do it? sorting through 84,000 cracks would be hard. you're right. but only people new to pirating would do that. the millions of others will have no problem. if you can just go to any one warez/crack site and keep an eye on new releases, then you'll see when the better-patched version comes out. or just when you go to a crack DB, download the latest patch instead of an older one. it'll likely even be called the "proper" crack. as i said i've used patched kernels and patched uxtheme's and patched everything else for forever and had no problems. the ones who get problems are mostly just people who don't know what they're doing. downloading the SP1 kernel when they have SP2 or something. but witht aht said, i have to use patched kernels because BootSkin crashes my computer... |
I have no doubt that more cracks will be made. And then a few weeks later, they'll come in and whine about how it died again. There's like a dozen and a half different backup activation checks in there. And given that the first crack was so poorly written that it managed to hose WB's painting code when one of the backup activation checks came on, I can't even imagine what the next crack will do to people's systems.
Some people will steal no matter what. There's nothing that can be done about it. If someone values their time so little that they're willing to risk messing up their computers with faulty cracks after sifting through zillions of cracks rather than pay 20 bucks, then that's a sale we wouldn't get no matter what.
But some people will. Today, ironically, may actually surpass the release date of WindowBlinds 5 in terms of sales. So at the end of the day, the system is working.
Reply #119 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:34 PM
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=WindowBlinds+5+download&word2=Buy+WindowBlinds+5
Reply #120 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:37 PM
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Reply #101 Sunday, December 18, 2005 4:43 PM
Nobody is saying WB is perfect. WB5 was beta tested by a large pool of users for 2-3 months (I forget exactly how long). This effect would have been noticed early in the pre-release process.
People who post system information and are determined to be registered users are getting support for problems they encounter. The effect we are discussing is limited to users whose System Information or personal profile information is not legitimate...