ATI X1900 XTX and Window Blinds 5.01
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I upgraded my motherboard and graphics card last week and did a complete format and reinstall of windows afetr that. About this time Window Blinds was updated to 5.01 from 5.00 or whatever the number is.
Since this time I can't load any skins properly and I'm basically having major problems with this software. What happens is that I can load a theme and it changes the entire desktop as normal, at this point everything looks fine. I then reboot and the theme has gone back to standard windows luna, except there are elements of the theme I tried to load still aparent - like the window close / minimise buttons are smaller than normal luna but are still the normal luna colours. The task bar is enlarged so much so that any system tray icons are very pixelated and the name of the day appears under the time.
If I then load window blinds control pannel and try to apply the skin again nothing happens apart from the title bar of the windows blinds control pannel turns invisible.
I've tried to track down the problem as best I can, I started by doing another format and reinstall, but I have the same result. I've tried going back from cat 6.3 to cat 6.2 drivers as someone said it may make a difference. But that also did nothing, however the thing to note was that when I had uninstalled the ati software and had no gfx drivers installed I was able to load a theme and restart as many times as I liked and it was still drawing the theme correctly.
So has anyone got any ideas? It sounds to me like a gfx driver or specific problem with the X1900 XTX cards. I had a X850 XT PE before and it was totally fine. So it's either the gfc card not working with the software, or possibly the update to window blinds?
Ideas?
Nick
I upgraded my motherboard and graphics card last week and did a complete format and reinstall of windows afetr that. About this time Window Blinds was updated to 5.01 from 5.00 or whatever the number is.
Since this time I can't load any skins properly and I'm basically having major problems with this software. What happens is that I can load a theme and it changes the entire desktop as normal, at this point everything looks fine. I then reboot and the theme has gone back to standard windows luna, except there are elements of the theme I tried to load still aparent - like the window close / minimise buttons are smaller than normal luna but are still the normal luna colours. The task bar is enlarged so much so that any system tray icons are very pixelated and the name of the day appears under the time.
If I then load window blinds control pannel and try to apply the skin again nothing happens apart from the title bar of the windows blinds control pannel turns invisible.
I've tried to track down the problem as best I can, I started by doing another format and reinstall, but I have the same result. I've tried going back from cat 6.3 to cat 6.2 drivers as someone said it may make a difference. But that also did nothing, however the thing to note was that when I had uninstalled the ati software and had no gfx drivers installed I was able to load a theme and restart as many times as I liked and it was still drawing the theme correctly.
So has anyone got any ideas? It sounds to me like a gfx driver or specific problem with the X1900 XTX cards. I had a X850 XT PE before and it was totally fine. So it's either the gfc card not working with the software, or possibly the update to window blinds?
Ideas?
Nick
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I have completely uninstalled and removed every registry key ( 
) that had stardock or windowblinds in it - since I had tried complete uninstalls before and it acted the same.
gaming by installing new video drivers that may not be as good. I know I could do a fresh install, but I have done that too many times with my "real" system and have to call MS each time to reactivate. So I am trying to find the least-painful way to resolve this!