Hi,

I tried the new WIndowBlinds beta that is up for us at our paid download link but it applies themes ok untill reboot then nothing. Reboots to no theme and will not apply new ones. If I uninstall and reinstall it works again the first time but after reboot it craps out again. WB icon never was in the system tray either at any time. Going to post to terch support too. I uninstalled it and reverted back to the production release but then even that was all screwed up. I recently restored Windows 7 from scratch and Luckily I did a system backup JUST before trying the beta and it was not untill I restored that and reinstalled the production version that everything worked ok. It seems very VERY hit or miss if this beta works correctly. Of course it is a beta so.... Well I am going to stick with the production version for now and monitor this post carefully as well as any new versions they post for us to try. As long as I do a system backup before I try any new beta versions I don't mind trying them. Let's hope we have a good working new release soon.

If anyone needs any info that will help with the bugs let me know and I will try to go into more detail about my experience.

This is the about of the beta when I had it on.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.3 (build 306 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Asus VH242H Monitor) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series

Wblind.dll      2011/08/23 15:17:20
Wblind64.dll      2011/08/23 15:17:46
Wbsrv.dll      2011/08/23 15:17:56
SevenConfig.exe      2011/08/23 15:17:52
Wbload.exe      2010/10/20 16:08:35
Wbhelp.dll      2010/10/20 16:08:34
Tray.dll           2009/10/23 20:12:19
Wbload.dll           2010/06/07 15:59:25
Screen.exe      2010/06/07 15:59:43

Joe

Joe -

Some people reported earlier in the thread that if they switched to Aero from classic (from within WB after reboot), then to some other skin, WB would work.  Presumably, YMMV.

For those who are having issues with it working after a reboot but not after a logout can you answer the following two questions please.

1) Which OS are you on (32 or 64 bit Vista/7)

2) Is your machine set to autologin on reboot?

3) Does a theme reapply by going to classic and then to a WB theme work after the failed skinning at login?

This version of WB has some changes to how WB starts up for forwards compatibility and it may be this is not working quite right in certain edge cases.

For anyone who finds it simply does not work at all could you also answer the above questions and also confirm that the WB about box does not indicate any problems.

I think you may have misunderstood the list of updates.

It says UIS0 explorer background fix.  This is specific to UIS0 skins where some backgrounds would turn funny colours.

Is that with all skins or just certain skins?  If so which skins are they?

UIS0 skins now skin the DisplayFusion taskbar and there are internal changes to support DisplayFusion using the WB skin start button once they make some changes to support it.

I was running Digital Glow on Win7 Ultimate/64 and had this issue also. I don't have the beta installed at the moment to try others. Condition #2 in post 53 applies in my case. If you'd like I can reinstall the beta and report back in this thread.

Well, it just told me my trial was over ( I had 8 days left) uninstalled and now will not turn on, at all.

That did not work for me.

1) Which OS are you on (32 or 64 bit Vista/7) Windows 7 SP1 X64

2) Is your machine set to autologin on reboot? No

3) Does a theme reapply by going to classic and then to a WB theme work after the failed skinning at login? No skinning fails altogether after reeboot.

THe "About" as I posted above shows all is installed and activated fine.

This thread is about a beta only provided to customers.

It would however appear that the WB trial has expired (it was supposed to expire November 2011 according to my records), so we will be putting up a new build hopefully on Monday for that.

It will show up on https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/downloads.asp once it is ready.

I take back my previous comment. 7.3 began screwing things up. Started getting lots of out of memory errors when launching programs. I uninstalled the beta and reverted back to 7.2. Now all is back to normal.

Had a beta problem, solved on the next page.

Thanks DrJBHL,
Copperhill

cooperhill uninstalling the beta, a reboot and installing 7.2 worked for me.

JuniorCrooks,

I can reinstall Windowblinds, reboot and it will work fine, but when I do a second restart, it's toast. That's why I said it will only work if I never turn the  machine off.

After the restart, Windows Classic comes up. I did as was mentioned previously and chose Windows Aero from WB, then I could go ahead and choose another blind just fine. So the problem is one of WB not loading properly at startup, no matter which archived version I use. Even though I am running 7.19c, the loading at startup is compromised or bugged ever since I did the latest beta update.

Again, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Copperhill

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.3 (build 306 - Windows 7 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Dell_ST2310_Analog) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 4200

Wblind.dll         2011/08/23 15:17:20
Wblind64.dll         2011/08/23 15:17:46
Wbsrv.dll         2011/08/23 15:17:56
SevenConfig.exe         2011/08/23 15:17:52
Wbload.exe         2010/10/20 16:08:35
Wbhelp.dll         2010/10/20 16:08:34
Tray.dll              2009/10/23 20:12:19
Wbload.dll              2010/06/07 15:59:25
Screen.exe         2010/06/07 15:59:43

It's so weird; the beta is going just fine on the husband's PC (Haven't put it on my Vista laptop yet; let him test it first), he's changed skins multiple times to see if it'll screw up but nothing so far.

LadyShrikel,

Has he rebooted the computer?

Thanks.

Several times, even turned it off and no problems.

I tried it I still cannot use it with MS Excel correctly, if a size the window to other than a full screen excell does not work correctly, if i change from one page to a different page it will not draw correctly, I was hoping this would be fixed I submitted a ticket on this but I guess it was ignored, I went back to the stable version

Nothing was ignored.

Neil Banfield has responded several times in this post, Stardock is looking into it and this is the weekend (support are off work until Monday).

Did not work for me either. Went back to 7.2 and it works fine.

I did the Impulse update.

Doc joined the ranks.

Rolled back with Impulse and all's well again. 

Just because something isn't done as quickly as you deem possible does not mean it was ignored.

Not all problems can be successfully anticipated nor be fixed immediately. From past observation of Neil's diligence, he's been hard at work chasing down the gremlins and fixing them.

'Beta' means something.  Just sayin...