Window Blinds 5 won't work

really, it won't

Wednesday, December 21, 2005 by ozmars | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Hi,

Just upgraded my subscription and updated to WB5.

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Dell 1504FP (Analog)) 1 is attached to Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller

Wblind.dll 2005/12/20 22:41:38
Wbsrv.dll 2005/12/20 22:57:44
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/05 18:42:52
Wbload.exe 2005/12/21 00:04:40
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 17:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

However, I can't get any of the skins to load, even though I get the little "loading" message.

Any thoughts?

More specifically, any thoughts that might help?

And, don't post the 'cracked' link! This is legit software.
9 Reply 3 Referrals
Bichur
Reply #1 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:48 AM
legit trial or legit paid?

seems to me loading a skin takes longer than it used to

ozmars
Reply #2 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 12:55 AM
paid

Bichur
Reply #3 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 1:04 AM
maybe some of the regular system info (mem,ram,etc) might also help once one of the smart guys show up.

Draginol
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:50 AM

Do you have anti-virus installed? And if so, which one? Some of them interupt the skinning process depending on how they're configured.


jagquar
Reply #5 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:40 AM
I cannot get windowblinds 5 to work properly on my computer. I have a AMD 64 bit chip with 1 gig of memory. The problem is the CPU is always running at max and no memory is available for any other processes. Windowblinds 4.6 works perfectly. I am hoping later revisions will address this problem.

ozmars
Reply #6 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 6:41 PM
I have AVG antivirus installed.

I'm running XPSP2 on a Dell GX270 with 256mb RAM.

I don't think its a hardware problem, rather a software clash or missing link somewhere. I may try reinstalling wb, and see what happens.

ozmars
Reply #7 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 7:11 PM
idiot. why didn't I try that earlier?

its all worked, sorry for wasting your time...

pailhead
Reply #8 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 9:24 PM
I had teh same problem when I first installed WB5. I ended up rebooting my machine a couple of times and it then loaded the correct skin and everything has been great since then..

Daiwa
Reply #9 Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:42 PM
Was it just that you forgot to reboot after the upgrade? For the benefit of others.

Cheers,
Daiwa

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