Windowsblinds requires restarts

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February 21, 2006 8:20 PM from

Hi, I'm using windowsblinds 5 and I can't even get it to start. It keeps saying Windowsblinds requires restarts even after I restart it. I saw other posts regarding this and people seem to get this from cracked windows activation. My copy is legit and I'm still getting this error. It is a corporate version which doesn't even require activation so there would be no reason to have any kind of crack on it. Can someone help me out? Is there any way to get this to work?

John

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Reply #1 February 21, 2006 11:40 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

I got exactly the same problem. I installed WB5, activated it, rebooted, and every time I tried to run it, it demanded a reboot.

For now, I'm sticking with WB4, as I don't have time to fiddle with it. I suspect that it involves WB5 not being allowed to make system/registry changes, and that if I deactivated all my firewall, antivirus, and antispyware I could install successfully, but not sure I want to do that.

Jim

Reply #2 February 21, 2006 11:41 PM from

Stardock Forums Top

I got exactly the same problem. I installed WB5, activated it, rebooted, and every time I tried to run it, it demanded a reboot.

For now, I'm sticking with WB4, as I don't have time to fiddle with it. I run WinXP, also legit, and I suspect that it involves WB5 not being allowed to make system/registry changes, and that if I deactivated all my firewall, antivirus, and antispyware I could install successfully, but not sure I want to do that.

Jim

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Reply #3 February 22, 2006 7:57 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

The problem is indeed caused by apps deleting / not permitting certain WB registry entries from being written.

Disable all your antispyware apps & reinstall WB.

Reply #4 February 23, 2006 12:09 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

Could it be because my windows is the 64 bit version and it trying to write it to the wrong location?

Reply #5 February 23, 2006 5:15 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

If you have the 64 bit version, try running wbinstall64 -install

Then reboot.

Reply #6 February 23, 2006 6:11 PM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

I tried that and it didn't help

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