Neil Banfield

Please Read this if your UI is black and painting slowly

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Please Read this if your UI is black and painting slowly

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If you have installed a pirate copy (AKA cracked) version of WindowBlinds 5, please be aware that the crack is faulty and WindowBlinds will cease to function correctly on your computer.

To fix this you just need to uninstall WB and if you wish install a purchased copy of WB, or the trial.

To uninstall, you can either wait for your computer to login, unload WB (either using wbconfig, display properties, or from a command prompt calling WBLOAD UNLOAD) and then uninstall WB.  Or you can boot into safe mode & uninstall WB from there.

Your computer has not been harmed in anyway.  Whoever made the crack did a poor job and patched out code that causes WindowBlinds to no longer be able to paint bitmaps (so title bars, borders, everything will be black).

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I simply patched WB's check on registration to assume I was a registered user and therefore have a "registered" copy


So why isn't this thread locked or that post removed. There's gonna be a flammin goin on now...
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So why isn't this thread locked or that post removed. There's gonna be a flammin goin on now...


I know ... I paid for mine , so why cant everyone pay for theirs?
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I paid for mine
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I know ... I paid for mine , so why cant everyone pay for theirs?

"so why can't everyone pay for HIS?".....Spell checker

You see, 'everyone' is a collective singular, not a plural....and 'his' is the generic pronoun....where 'hers' may be used if the collective 'everyone' was all female.

Isn't this thrilling?...

More thrilling than having a bunch of spoiled brats who think they are 1337 because they can do a search for 'cracks' coming on here and throwing tantrums that the dickhead who thought he was a cracker had just mangled their computers.

Most if not all of these kiddies need their arses paddled for being so damn stupid and naive it's a wonder they have lived long enough to almost reach puberty.

And no, I'm not making assumptions...or rash generalisations....not even attacking them/you personally.  I'm doing what your/their parents should have done....shown disdain for your/their profound stupidity.  [sadly, drowning at birth is not an option].

Go home.

Grow a social conscience.

Come back when you are willing to pay for that which you want to have.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Neil - Thanks for giving the heads up for these people out there. Really seems that they just need to realize things.
#1. There is a new Skin Studio release for version 5
#2. There is a new beta Windowblinds release for version 5 also.
Both release's work very well and are worth buying the full Stardock programs of Object Desktop complete!!
I'm very happy with the programs I have and espically the beta release's for the new WB 5 also.

The new skin studio has a lot more than it ever has. Along with being able to upgrade wb's from the past too!
This really makes it great for you can take an old skin and just do some really good new stuff with it. I love it

But back to the subject - your work for Stardock has been really great! I appreciate it and I hope these others will come around to find there is something really better by just purchasing the programs.
Thanks again and hope everyone finds their way to a better place here....
SGT
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"so why can't everyone pay for HIS?".....


Sorry if I was gramatically incorrect ....
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Sorry if I was gramatically incorrect ....

Hehe....was trying for levity...in the face of idiocy [from others]....

Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It just goes to show how many people will do anything to have windowblinds and other stardock software.To Stardocks credit its good reliable software.Ive been using stardock software for 2 years with out a problem.Its just a pitty people dont realise that cracked software isnt reliable like the paid software.
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
There will always be people trying, banruptcy. Its not like its unexpected.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
it's just sad
Reply #38 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Un-f**king-believable...
Reply #39 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Next spring I will be doing some work for a FBI agent does web related inmvestigations. I can't wait. Maybe I will offer a 25% discount if he hunts these fools down.
Reply #40 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well as i see it, Stardock (or the person who wrote WB5 with these 20 odd checks) know what will happen to a system when using cracked software, are willingly and knowingly sabotaging ppls systems??? Protecting your software is 1 thing, but taking revenge is another!

And, with this quote of Frogboy:
I think the question of whether copy protection works has been solved. WindowBlinds 5 sales had its best day ever in the 24 hour period that the crack failed. It was an even better sales day than the day it was first released.

So your analogy, which has lots of other issues, fails the basic premise -- people DO buy stuff if they can't get it for free.

you even get rewarded for breaking others persons computers???

Well cheers mate, ain't Amerika a great country! I think they even have a patent on morals.

FYI, ive been funding you for several years writing this shit. I don't think im very much inclined to do so again. But then again, that probably doesnt scare you after these record sales the day after the WB5 version of 9-11.

And youre wrong too (in my case anyway). I did buy object desktop even when I could get it for free. No I did renew last year (other priorities), and I dont think I will, if you dont simply admit what is going on.
Reply #41 from Stardock Forums Top

weeeeeee I bought it!  YAY for WB - pitty there seems to be a lack of decent themes...and omg Vista theme by Kol dissapeared - lucky i downloaded it a few weeks back!  phew - else i may just have well have stuck with a cracked version that didn't work!


lovely jubley


 


merry xmas all!


 

Reply #42 from WinCustomize Forums Top
oops, i mean i did NoT renew. So ill just stick w WB4.

WB5 has other issues with transparency anyway. Like extra buttons from Powerdesk in explorerwindows showing up under the transparent titlebar where they should be, and thus not working/accesible. And thats slightly more important to me than some transparency eyecandy. It slows down the system too in my/my wifes opinion.

I just wanted to see what WB5 was about, and if its worth its money. Obviously not. And certainly not the trouble I had with getting that piece of shit out of my system (and I don't mean the 'crack', and I'm certainly not constipated).

So, i'm wondering what i'll get; a sales pitch, an apology or some handsome remark about a door and getting hit 'n stuff.
Reply #43 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Every one has their opinion. Yours stinks, but it's yours.
Reply #44 from WinCustomize Forums Top
For my part, I vote for the door suggestion Jeep.

There seems to be the misunderstanding that SD built WB5 so that cracked copies would screw up your machine. As I'm understanding it, it's the crack that's screwing up. Not SD's doing. Of course no one posting here complaining of a problem because of their use of a cracked copy is getting much sympathy from those of us who've paid for ours.

Again (wasting my breath I know), Stardock hasn't screwed up your machines. The official, buy-it-if-you-use-it version works fine. The trial version works fine. The twit that cracked WB 5 is the one who screwed up your machines. Not that we care.
Reply #45 from Stardock Forums Top

Well as i see it, Stardock (or the person who wrote WB5 with these 20 odd checks) know what will happen to a system when using cracked software, are willingly and knowingly sabotaging ppls systems???


bull. all a matter of opinion.  far as i see it, the only people willingly sabotaging systems are crackers and the people stupid enough to install the cracks.

Reply #46 from WinCustomize Forums Top
the people stupid enough to install the cracks


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Reply #47 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I think comparing a broken crack to 9-11 is just a little insensitive to those who lost loved ones on 9-11...

If anyone wants to try WB out, thats what the trial version is for.  Gives you 60 days to try out some of WBs features and decide if its worth the money.

You could ask the person who made the crack for your money back of course.

Reply #48 from WinCustomize Forums Top
On the topic of powerdesk additional buttons.  Those are simply not compatible with per pixel alpha.
Reply #49 from WinCustomize Forums Top
One other question.  If WB5 was not worth the money & slow, why didn't you remove it and go back to WB4?
Reply #50 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You could ask the person who made the crack for your money back of course.


I believe most of them give it for free, that way they can claim no liability when their crack blows your shit.