Deskscape8, WindowFX5, WindowBlinds8 don't load on startup

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After the recent update last week, Deskscape8, WindowFX5, WindowBlinds8 won't load on startup. Fences does, but not these three products. I've checked Services and noticed that they are now set to manual which requires manually going into Services and starting the service for each. I believe they used to be set for Automatic.

I've tried uninstalling these products and re-installing, but it does not change. Every time I re-boot, they don't load.

Any suggestions on how I might correct this?

 

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

By the way... I have tried setting them to automatic (in Services), but after a couple seconds, they revert back to manual.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Do you have some software which claims to speed up bootup?

It sounds like something is actively messing with the startup settings of those services.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

:grin:  Boy, are you right on the money. Just before you wrote back, I discovered my startup delay utility had our three friends disabled. Fixed it.

Glad that was all it was.

You nailed it, though.

 

Cheers.