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I am having trouble running WindowBlinds on my work PC.
I can run the WB configuration program just fine. However, when I try to load a skin, any skin, the trouble starts. Once WB is finished loading, I can no longer open any explorer window. Existing explorer windows get skinned just fine, its just new windows that never open. Additionally, the task bar stops responding. Once I try to launch an explorer window, the cursor is always an hourglass on the taskbar. Once the system gets in this state, I cannot even kill explorer.exe from task manager. The only way for me to restart the system is a hard reset as the system will never shut down normally (even using the restart.exe program bundled with OD). I have tried numerous skins and all behave the same. I am running the following hardware / software configuration.
Dual Xeon 2.8 CPU's / 2 gig memory
Windows XP SP2 (all updates)
AGP Radeon 9800 Pro video
PCI Radeon 9200 video
3 monitors running at 1600x1200
ATI Catalyst 5.2 drivers (first started happening with catalyst 5.1 - I upgraded to 5.2 to see if that fixed anything - nope)
WindowBlinds works just fine on my home PC. The configuration is identical to my home PC except for the video card(s). At home I have an AGP NVidia 6800 GT and PCI NVidia 5200. Both systems are running 3 monitor setups.
Has anyone seen this sort of behavior? Is there anything I can do or am I doomed not to use WB at work?
thanks
khariV
I can run the WB configuration program just fine. However, when I try to load a skin, any skin, the trouble starts. Once WB is finished loading, I can no longer open any explorer window. Existing explorer windows get skinned just fine, its just new windows that never open. Additionally, the task bar stops responding. Once I try to launch an explorer window, the cursor is always an hourglass on the taskbar. Once the system gets in this state, I cannot even kill explorer.exe from task manager. The only way for me to restart the system is a hard reset as the system will never shut down normally (even using the restart.exe program bundled with OD). I have tried numerous skins and all behave the same. I am running the following hardware / software configuration.
Dual Xeon 2.8 CPU's / 2 gig memory
Windows XP SP2 (all updates)
AGP Radeon 9800 Pro video
PCI Radeon 9200 video
3 monitors running at 1600x1200
ATI Catalyst 5.2 drivers (first started happening with catalyst 5.1 - I upgraded to 5.2 to see if that fixed anything - nope)
WindowBlinds works just fine on my home PC. The configuration is identical to my home PC except for the video card(s). At home I have an AGP NVidia 6800 GT and PCI NVidia 5200. Both systems are running 3 monitor setups.
Has anyone seen this sort of behavior? Is there anything I can do or am I doomed not to use WB at work?
thanks
khariV
