Hey guys.

My name is Brendan, im 17 years old
This thread has been a real eye-opener for me.
Like many others, i first downloaded the trial version
and i quite liked it.
Ashamably, like many applications, i searched on torrent websites for a cracked version.
I found one, but like most people found that it was corrupted.
With guilt i unintalled it, and in no way blamed the application itself.
How can a user trust software from a hacker?

After reading this thread, (which thankfully diagnosed the problem for me) I am filled with guilt and am going to ask my dad for permission tomorrow to buy this program.
Also, i have stopped downloading Mp3s choosing to buy the album like i should, because if no one gets payed for these services, how can we expect them to keep distributing it.

Thankyou Niel,
i shall contribute to your well earned salary

Welcome

Bassboy, thanks for your post.  We welcome you.

I paid for my copy. I downloaded it from Stardock Central (which is a pain; I could have just downloaded a single EXE and installed the whole suite much easier), and some of the other programs work fine, but WindowBlinds comes up with a back background and I can't do anything with it. Also, after installing Object Desktop, i get a Spooler.exe error everytime I boot my computer, and two more after I log in.

Darthcola,
I'd suggest starting a new thread. This thread had to do with cracked versions that were messing up peoples computers quite a while back.

When you post go to the Windowblinds Configuration panel and click on the System Info Tab, Copy Test and paste that into your post. You also might want to mention any other "customization" type software you are or have used.

Well, I guess I'll toss in my 2 cents....lol.
First off, that patch all of you are fervently attempting to diagnose actually disables communications to Stardock on the rig, and creates ID files to match the version of blinds. It also creates a mock activation file so it can be used without the code. That's all the crack does. It doesn't modify blinds itself in any way. secondly, I've actually used a cracked version for the sole purpose of comparing the cracked to the legit purchased version. I found that the cracked version ran just as smooth as the purchased. I now have a nice legit purchased version of 6 too and long since deleted the cracked because I personally think Stardock deserves every penny they ask for.
There WAS what was called a "black blinds crack" that did make blinds useless, but it got repaired and re-released. It was about as nasty as you can get too. It would not only disable skinning through blinds, but it also pegged sys resources to a whopping 90 to 99% usage.....lol.

In this I do have a question though. Is it possible to backup your current purchased version of blinds installed from SDC updating? Years ago I had purchased Object Desktop 2004 and lost everything due to a format, and my subscription running out. As a consequence, my purchased CD is useless. Since the subscription is more than the cost of what I really want, I chose to re-purchase blinds6. I'm currently up to date with SDC live updates, and would like to know if there's a way to avoid losing the most current version I have installed without panic attacks and severe depression...lol. Personally I think blinds and SKS is well worth the cash, but I don't wanna have to resort to re-purchasing it should things go awry again.
I know some of you are thinking, "well duuuuhh, why not just resubscribe?" Though that's obviously the desirable approach, not everyone has the 35 or so beans to blow right away....lol.
Lastly, [quote]It was simply an XP patch that interfered with WBs ability to skin windows.. not a faulty crack.


I personally have experienced issues with blinds vs. windows updates. Upon installing a new XPservicepack 2 update and framework2.0 Blinds went nuts. It was resizing just about everything. the most noticeable was the 16x16 systray icons being oversized to 24x24. It was so horrible I had to do a restore to correct the issue. After that, I disabled auto updates and refused to update at all. I was also using an ooooold purchased copy of Obj Desktop 2004, but it ran smooth as silk up to that point.

You know, I've had this problem a couple times, and I purchased my version. It always is fixed by a restart though.

yup, that's all that would fix it though, which is kind of a pain if it happens often, which in my case it did.Oddly though, I'm having even more issues with blinds6 vs. Vista. I won't bring them up here since this is for cracked blinds usage. I still love Stardock, and probably would crawl into a hole and die if I couldn't use it. Thankfully the world has been graced with pure genius and I now can use it on Vista...lol. The main concern for me was, I thought it was a corruption in the skin I developed and not some quirk in XP. Franky, it scared the H.E. double hockey sticks outa me because I thought I was gonna have to rebuild the entire skin from scratch.....lol.

that would be- opens sdc, right click on WB - choose archive

Oh man, you rule Bichur Thank you! you've saved me countless nights of sleep deprivation over this. I can't wait til SKS is purchasable I'm soooooo gonna buy it instaed of the free one. :D:D:D

is there now a solution for this black ui problem?

i bought and installed it today an i have on my xp home a black ui

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 51 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug und Play-Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Wblind.dll 2008/03/17 13:45:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/03/31 17:25:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/20 14:52:33
Wbload.exe 2008/03/30 12:27:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Wbui.dll 2007/11/06 11:13:05
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Screen.exe 2008/01/14 18:02:18

the major reason for the black ui (when this post was written) was due to cracked versions of WB.


do you have nView turned on? if so, turn it off.

that is what i also read but i never had such a version installed. first i installed the trial and later i bought it. nview is not enabled. the black UI is still here. i adapt me to it but i is painfull to work with it.

did you uninstall the trial and reboot prior to installing the paid?

dont know anymore.. as i think now about it.. it can be that i never installed the trail version.
anyway i uninstalled and installed the hole object dekstop package more then ones. deleted all related directories and registry keys. i am sure i also rebooted between that. did all what can be done but no change. i also wrote a support ticket at stardock but heard nothing from them.

if you put in the ticket at support page have you logged into it and checked the status?

have you checked your spam folders for emails?

äch.. i am a idiot.:-) just logged in to the support helpdesk and there is a answer.. let me try to do that what he wants from me.. thx

the last time i couldnt log in. to much passwords for stardock  . would be nice if they would have only one account and password for all logins.

cool. this is a useful information!! thanks.

believe it or not mpurchased window blinds  6 is black and i downloaded a WB 5 from one of those torrent places and its fine only the "crack" wouldnt work so I couldnt activate it... no serial. Needless to say I uninstalled it and am now trying to fix WB6 problems. Has an error message saying to check to see if my disk is full and that i have access to the destination directory. Dont know what to do. Anybody else have this problem??

 

uninstall all versions of WB - reboot

delete all WB folders

run a cleaner like CCleaner

clean your registry

reboot

 

download Impulse

 

run it and let it update itself

 

register your WB serial in Impulse

 

then use Impulse to download and install WB

 

 

if that doesn't work, start a new post - this one is waaaayyy old

 

also get something like malwarebytes if don't have something already and really scan your computer for nasties

 

not all torrents are "clean"

Are any?

Russian Roulette....with only one empty chamber would be safer.

Just plain boring...going back to sleep now nite, nite.....

well i'm using a LEGAL copy of WindowBlinds...which means i'm a good guy

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