WindowBlinds causes history, and favorites in IE to lag and flash, fix?

February 14, 2005 3:52 AM from

I downloaded windowblinds and a bunch of skins but no matter which skin i choose everytime i select history or favorites in Internet Explorer the box that comes up on the side flashes really fast the whole time it is open and if i click the folders to open them to see my links it takes about 30 seconds for the folders to open to get to my links to click on, anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

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Reply #1 February 14, 2005 3:57 AM from

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I also cant add any sites to my favorites list just causes IE to freeze

Reply #2 February 17, 2005 3:41 PM from

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I have the same problem, I have Windowblinds 4.5, XP Home, and my favorites bar flashes if a skin is active. On my old XP Pro PC, with Windowblinds 4.4, this didn't happen. Does anyone know how or why this is happening? Please help

Reply #3 February 17, 2005 4:06 PM from

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I have XP home sp2 and the latest version of Window Blinds and I do not have this problem.

Reply #4 February 18, 2005 2:43 AM from

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Do any of you have any toolbars? Im not sure but that may be the cause? I doubt it as my favorites bar is fine with the default XP skin.

Reply #5 February 18, 2005 4:10 AM from

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I have the same problem when using version 4.5, and also the textsize of the toolbars names (in the taskbar) is set to normal in display properties, but shows up as big, witch causes the text to be cut off 2-3 pixels at the bottom.

Reply #6 February 19, 2005 4:53 AM from

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Maybe I should just download version 4.4, as that has always worked for me...

Reply #7 February 24, 2005 12:15 AM from

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I am also having the same problems even with a clean installation of XP Pro with Sp2 and loading windowblinds 4.5 as the first application. Where did you find the 4.4 version of Window Blinds?

Reply #8 February 24, 2005 5:18 AM from

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Does this still happen with the very latest WB (4.51 beta - updated wednesday) on OD?

Reply #9 February 24, 2005 10:03 AM from

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Where did you find the 4.4 version of Window Blinds?

If you have SDC you can restore the archive.

Reply #10 February 24, 2005 10:49 AM from

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If you have SDC you can restore the archive

If you have it set to archive....the last released version of WB is 4.50.044 and I've got XP SP2 running it....no issues. You might want to check to make sure you have no overrides setup in WBConfig. and that your display setting is set to 96DPI in display properties=>Settings=>Advanced Settings=>General. Also try enabling or disabling Hyperpaint in WBConfig. and it wouldn't hurt to check if your videocard drivers are up to date. Those are the things I would try if you are using a released version of WB vs. a Beta version.

Reply #11 March 1, 2005 2:09 PM from

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I am having the exact same problem too....it never did that till I installed windows blinds...other than that it is running great....
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