BIG PROBLEM, BIG TIME!

PLEASE HELP!

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Hi everyone, im new here and I'll cut to the chase.

I installed windowblinds on my laptop today and I was trying out some new skins which was fine, until I tried to change it again to a pretty green one. Now, everything started to change- the taskbar, background etc...but it was slower than last time to change it all and it looked like the computer had crashed. (I gave it a while to see if anything would happen first but I gave up at the end and switched it off manually - which I really hate doing)

So it booted up fine, logged on (as admin) but it was VERY slow to display the desktop, taskbar, icons etc. It was just black with the mouse loading all the time. I opened up taskmanager to see if anything would happen but it looked like it crashed too. So im all out of ideas - if it fired up, I would've uninstalled it by now or used a restore point, but I can't get to it because of the problem.

So the only way I can use my laptop at the mo is to log on under the guest account and it fires up perfectly, no problems at all - but the catch with the guest account is, that you can't unintall anything etc.....bugger.

PLEASE HELP ME! IM AT MY TETHER HERE, AND LOSING MY RAG.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH PEOPLE.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
(BTW, sorry guys if you saw two threads posted by me with the same title - it said I couldn't post the thread the first time round, so I tried again and then it posted twice!)  
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
As administrator - cant you go into the Windowblind folder and delete the WB thats causing the problem ? If I run across one that causes issues _ i just delete the blind - or is this a theme or suite you downloaded ?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Reboot and switch to a different skin and see if you still have the problem. Over the years I've gotten in the habit of rebooting after I change skins and in my opinion it helps.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Over the years I've gotten in the habit of rebooting after I change skins and in my opinion it helps.


Ive always had to do this too - I noticed that sometimes installing a skin while i have FF open on WC - object bar will sometimes freeze up while importing and cause just what she described. Ive had to shut down manually - but after reboot its usually fine.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Boot into Safe Mode and run a Restore.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
thats exactly what I did just a moment ago thanks. I actaully surfed the net and thats what it said to do. booted up in safe mode and restore worked like clockwork!

Thanks for the other tip too, guys butI think none of them would've worked.
Im so relievd now. Phew!
  
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just realised you couldnt log on as admin.
Thank God for Yrag. I never listen to me anyway - I wait for one of the smart ones.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Was it just that one skin?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Maybe this one? https://www.wincustomize.com/browser/forums.aspx?AID=95598

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Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top




yes it was only one skin. every other skin I tried worked fine. But now I feel slightly paranoid about installing new skins in the future. I'll try and be more careful I think.