WindowBlinds 5.01 and HORRIBLE PC performance.

This issue has happened once before and it's happenening again.

These are my PC specs:

Dell XPS m1710
Windows MCE
2.16Ghz Duo
2GB DDR2-667
512mb nVidia 7900 GTX
100GB 7200 RPM HD

Here's what happened in the beginning. I installed WB5 and it seemed my system was slow. There was a 2-3 second delay before any program would open up. Also Windows would not shut down. When I shut down, it went to the screen "Windows is shutting down..." but I can leave it there for an hour and it never shut down.

I'd close WB5 and it still kept happening. I called Dell and we checked all of my system processes. I had 1.50GB free of RAM and my CPU idle was always around 99%. They had no clue, except to tell me to uninstall any new programs. Guess what? As soon as I
uninstalled WB, my PC was back to blazing speeds.

Well I just downloaded the trial version off the website again, and the same crap is happening. I just don't see how this is possible. My PC is a beast and I use programs like System Mechanic 6 and Diskeeper 10 Professional to keep it at peak performance.

What can be the problem?
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Reply #1 Top
Open the WindowBlinds Configuration screen and click on System Info. Copy the information displayed and post it here.
Reply #2 Top
I think the Video Card is more important to WB5 than how large your hard drive is or how much ram you have. The system info from Windowblinds Configuration tells whether the program is properly installed and what kind of Video hardware you have.

Make sure your running the latest video drivers for your card.
Reply #3 Top
I'm sorry I forget to say what GPU I have. It's a 512mb 7900 GTX with the latest drivers.

Unfortunately I cannot post what you asked as I just uninstalled WB not too long after posting this because the problems are just too much to leave it installed.
Reply #4 Top
What version were you running?  Was it the shareware version?
Reply #6 Top
Did WB4 work and how did you un-install it? What version are those latest graphics drivers you have installed?
Reply #7 Top

What sound card do you have?

Some buggy sound card drivers have been known to cause winmm.dll to take a few seconds to load.  This could slow app loading by 2 seconds.