WindowBlinds 5 Freezes

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Sunday, January 15, 2006 by Syaoran | Discussion: WindowBlinds

Hi,

I just installed WindowBlinds 5 on my computer. It installed fine, but when I loaded up a new skin, it would freeze halfway through and the CPU usage would shoot up to 100%. It would look like it would still be loading...the taskbar would turn black, and I even left it running for a few hours and it had progressed a little bit with loading it, but I gave up. Even after rebooting, it happens. I even uninstalled it then reinstalled. Any suggestions? Thank you.
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Cody H
Reply #1 Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:02 PM
That's odd, i'm having the same problem too. I've actually had WindowBlinds 5 installed for some time now, it had always worked in the past. But for some reason the other day, i fired WB5 up and i had the exact same problem. I eventualy had to hold down the power button on my PC to restart.

Perhaps Windows Update could be the culprit? I remember them releasing an update related to the GUI.

Any help is greatly appriciated guys!

BX
Reply #2 Sunday, January 15, 2006 12:30 PM
What version(s) of you WB 5 you people are using (Demo / Full Paid) and please copy and paste SystemInformation from WB Config's Window .. Plus a ScreenShot of the problem will be great

Cody H
Reply #3 Sunday, January 15, 2006 2:19 PM
Well, i can give you the info, but a screenshot would require a freeze of my PC so i doubt i could get one. And where can i find the build # of the program?

Bichur
Reply #4 Sunday, January 15, 2006 3:10 PM
where can i find the build # of the program?

give what shows up when you mouse over the systray icon

Neil Banfield
Reply #5 Monday, January 16, 2006 7:54 AM

Easy way is to post the dates, times & sizes of wblind.dll, wbsrv.dll, wbconfig.exe, screen.exe and wbload.exe


gsyren
Reply #6 Friday, January 20, 2006 10:01 AM

I'm seeing the same problem. I'm using version 5.00 build 49 (Full paid).


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 does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.


This is because :


Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha.  WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor.  Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware.  Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature.  Onboard graphics tend not to.


You have one monitor in total.


(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000   Pro (Microsoft Corporation)


Wblind.dll      2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll      2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe      2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe      2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll      2004/09/18 15:37:00
Wbui.dll      2005/11/20 12:23:40
Tray.dll      2005/11/02 13:28:26


Bichur
Reply #7 Sunday, January 22, 2006 4:34 PM
Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha.

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