Please Read this if your UI is black and painting slowly
Saturday, December 17, 2005 by Neil Banfield | Discussion: WindowBlinds
If you have installed a pirate copy (AKA cracked) version of WindowBlinds 5, please be aware that the crack is faulty and WindowBlinds will cease to function correctly on your computer.
To fix this you just need to uninstall WB and if you wish install a purchased copy of WB, or the trial.
To uninstall, you can either wait for your computer to login, unload WB (either using wbconfig, display properties, or from a command prompt calling WBLOAD UNLOAD) and then uninstall WB. Or you can boot into safe mode & uninstall WB from there.
Your computer has not been harmed in anyway. Whoever made the crack did a poor job and patched out code that causes WindowBlinds to no longer be able to paint bitmaps (so title bars, borders, everything will be black).
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Reply #3 Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:52 PM
Reply #4 Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:21 PM
And come onto the company forum & blast the company & the program...
And claim that it ruined their system when the fix is a simple uninstall...
Reply #5 Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:53 PM
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Reply #8 Sunday, December 18, 2005 5:48 AM
It's things like this that need to be made an example of. Finally, I've seen someone take initiative to basically say, "Pee Off" (Kept it clean) to the "crackers".Reply #9 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:42 AM
As far as I'm aware...because WB is 'quite closely integrated into the MS OS if people mess with its code [read....'attempt to crack'] there is a very real chance that a standard Windows Update may adversely affect its smooth running....at least that's what seems to have happened.
Last I checked, my WB5 is ticking along nicely....and so are my most recent [up to date] Windows Updates...
That kinda-sorta means my WB is a legal one....
Reply #10 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:09 PM
| So the cracked version was working fine, and then it spontaneously imploded? Did Stardock figure out a way to pull that off, or did the crackers just mess something up? If you guys did make that happen, congratulations... that would be the most amusing way to combat piracy I've seen yet. Let everyone who downloaded an illegal copy spend hours trying to fix their system, then laugh at them when they come on to the forums to complain. Nice. |
There are various backup checks in WindowBlinds that work in a variety of ways. However, the cracks that are out there brute forced it and made it so that when one of the backup checks turned on, that WindowBlinds could no longer repaint their resources.
Reply #11 Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:33 PM
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Reply #13 Monday, December 19, 2005 12:55 AM
Well, needless to say, I've gone back to the copy of WB4.x that I purchased last year. Assclown, giving me pirated software.
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Reply #16 Monday, December 19, 2005 3:54 AM
right now, I m back to WB 4.6 until there is an update like Windowsblinds 5.1 or .01 with fix for these, also looking forward for the release skin studio 5
Reply #17 Monday, December 19, 2005 8:49 AM
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Reply #20 Monday, December 19, 2005 9:32 AM
| i have changed emails and deleted my old account since then so i don have email right now |
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Reply #1 Saturday, December 17, 2005 6:08 PM