Alternate Location of WindowBlind Skins from Default WindowBlinds install folder.

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Hello,

As a person who has accumulated many skins over the years while using WindowBlinds 10, it became necessary for me to place all of my WindowBlinds skins on a separate drive from the drive WindowBlinds was installed to.   I was able to do this thanks to RedneckDude listing for me all of the registry changes I needed to make in order for everything to work smoothly.   I am very grateful to him, because he went the extra mile for me.

Now that WindowBlinds 11 is officially released, I've installed it.  I had upgraded to Windows 11 a few months ago and knew beforehand that WindowBlinds 10 was incompatible, so I uninstalled it knowing that WindowBlinds 11 would be released imminently.  

So the install of WindowBlinds 11 I've made to Windows 11 is a clean install.  Right now the program is not aware of the large amount of skins I have on another drive.

What I don't want to assume is that the directions for registry changes that RedneckDude gave me would automatically work with the new install of WindowBlinds 11.  I don't want to break the program and make a mess of things on my end.

What I am hoping is that someone might explain to me how to direct the WindowBlinds 11 program to my other drive so it can populate the program with all of my skins.   I don't know if there is a new method to do this, or if it's still a matter of making registry changes.


Thank you in advance for any advice for how to accomplish this.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I assume you are running Windows 11 on an SSD disk, so the large number of files will not slow down your system. How large is your Stardock skins folder? Mine is around 12 Gb with Windowblinds, IP & CursorFX.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I would assume that the same instructions I gave you before would work.  I haven't tried it.

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Mine is 14.9 Gbs.   I have the room on my C drive, but I suppose I'm just paranoid about losing too much space.   From looking at the folder, I feel I could comfortably place the skins on my C drive where WindowBlinds is installed.  

I guess I was too paranoid because I knew it was a pretty hefty amount of data.  That's why I install most of my programs and games to other large SSD's in my system.  I figure if I didn't have that policy for programs in general, I would have run out of room on my C drive long ago.

Still, it's a habit I developed a long time ago.  I need to not automatically just go with my model of installing most other programs and data files for programs that do reside on the C drive to other drives.   I need to be able to make a reasoned decision after examining the truth of the evidence when it comes to overall size of the data.   In some instances, it's valid for data to go on other drives.  In this case though, thanks to you, I've decided it does not.

I do think this brings up a possible thing to consider though.  Most programs upon installing them give the user the ability to choose which drive they wish to install to.  During the installation, the dialog box came up showing where the program was going to be installed, but it did not give the user the choice to install it somewhere else.   I think it's a fair point to put forth that that freedom during the installation process should be given to the end user since so many other programs give the end user that ability.

 

Nonetheless though, you have made me examine my own particular use case, and you are correct.  I can move my data files over.

 

Thank you!

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