help please...

Friday, January 20, 2006 by Rychian | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I just reinstalled xp and reinstalled windowblinds 4. None of the skins are working outside of the ones that came down with it. is there a setting in my system or windowblinds that I need to fix....or do I need a newer version of windowblinds? everything worked fine before the reinstall, and I was using windowblinds 4. Thank you for your help......
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Patriots
Reply #1 Friday, January 20, 2006 4:48 PM
What themes are your trying to install with WB? There is a newer version of WB out WB5 are you trying to apply themes that are for that version only?

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Rychian
Reply #2 Friday, January 20, 2006 4:57 PM
black metal, gt3. all are pre-wb5

Patriots
Reply #3 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:03 PM
I haven't used WB4 in a while, so I'm going to do the best I can here. What is your start/taskbar set at as far as Classic Menu? I do believe that you should have it set at Classic menu in order for it to skin. Also, have you re-booted since your install? You can try that as well.

You may also want to look into SDC and see if there's any updates that you don't have on WB4 with the new re-install. Hope any of these options help. Let me know and I'll look for more help...

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Rychian
Reply #4 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:08 PM
they are helpful, and I did do all fo that....so maybe I'll try to update to a newer version...and see what happens...heheheheh

Patriots
Reply #5 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:12 PM
Well, I am trying here. Like I said it's been a long time for me since I used WB4 though I'm sure it's a lot like WB5 I have object desktop which makes it that much more fool proof for me to download and apply themes

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Koasati
Reply #6 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:13 PM
We need more details.....

In what way are they not working?
Do they show in the skins list, but won't apply?
Do they not appear in the list?
How did you reinstall the skins?

(btw.... even WB5 skins should work with WB4. They won't have the new features, but the old style titlebars, and other bits should still be included in the newer skins.)


Koasati
Reply #7 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:15 PM
What is your start/taskbar set at as far as Classic Menu? I do believe that you should have it set at Classic menu in order for it to skin

You have that backwards..


Rychian
Reply #8 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:21 PM
all of the above wizop...what version was released just before wb5???

Patriots
Reply #9 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:23 PM
You have that backwards


I'm trying Koasati...But, in all fairness to me, I do believe I said that WB4 and WB5 are used the same way, meaning..guess I wasn't clear enough in my explaination. Sorry ::::going back to my corner:::

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Rychian
Reply #10 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:27 PM
hey patriot....you were helpful...I did have to go back and double check....I could have forgotten....

Patriots
Reply #11 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:31 PM
awww thanks Rychian, but I do belive that Koasati can be much more helpful than I... I only led you to double check the basics.

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Rychian
Reply #12 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:32 PM
I dont know if this will help...but...curserxp works...but new cursor downloads dont install either...even after being unzipped...cursors that came down with it work.

Rychian
Reply #13 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:34 PM
patriot, thats a good start aye???

Rychian
Reply #14 Friday, January 20, 2006 5:40 PM
I'll uninstall and install wb5 and see what happens...

Rychian
Reply #15 Friday, January 20, 2006 6:11 PM
okay wb5 is in.(in-freeking-credible)!!!!!.But skins come down with no gui file in them....all of the skin is there ..but no way of installing or applying....what now????

Bichur
Reply #16 Friday, January 20, 2006 6:12 PM
We need more details.....
In what way are they not working?
Do they show in the skins list, but won't apply?
Do they not appear in the list?
How did you reinstall the skins?

Bichur
Reply #17 Friday, January 20, 2006 6:15 PM
no gui file


no gui or no uis?


i had some issues the other day downloading 5imple came up with no uis - i downloaded it 3 times before it took - was using firefox which hasn't messed up the extensions yet - but i did not the ones that did take were short on size compared to what was supposed to download.

Rychian
Reply #18 Friday, January 20, 2006 6:21 PM
sir bichur, thanks for responding....in response to your first post...all of the above, this applies to new skins...I may mean the uis. The skin file is there, but no way to install or apply it...I tried using theme manager but with no success......I'm not sure what to do at this point.this is also the case with cursorxp.

Bichur
Reply #19 Friday, January 20, 2006 6:24 PM
what browser are you using?

Jafo
Reply #20 Friday, January 20, 2006 6:28 PM

To dl a wba file you 'should' always rightclick and 'save as' to a folder location of your choice...to be sure it downloads as a wba and not a zip.....and also to verify it is not actually a wba INSIDE a zip.

Double-clicking to install it from your own HD is going to be more foolproof, anyway....


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