Can't Skin Anything

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All right i don't know what happened but all of a sudden my windows blinds stopped working (Version 5.0). Taskbar and Windows won't skin, but small effects like info bubbles change. And i can't get the icon back into the system tray.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Also i just found out that when i try to change my taskbar to Windows XP style in display settings, it gives me "Theme could not load Access is denied".
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Check if your theme service is running.

If you do not know how to that:
- Go to Control Panel\Administrative Tools and click on services.

Also check if administrative privileges are enabled.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Please to help us to help you can you provide your systems informations they look like this:

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.51 (build 97 x86))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.

(Écran Plug-and-Play) 1 is attached to GIGABYTE RADEON 9200

Wblind.dll Date hour
Wbsrv.dll Date hour
Wbconfig.exe Date hour
Wbload.exe Date hour
Wbhelp.dll Date hour
Wbui.dll Date hour
Tray.dll Date hour


you can find it by right click on the Windowblinds system tray icon and under "system information" on the WB application
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
you can find it by right click on the Windowblinds system tray icon and under "system information" on the WB application

He says that he can't get to that info because his system tray icon is also missing and he cannot get it back.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
WindowBlinds 5.1 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON 9200 SERIES

Wblind.dll 2006/10/09 10:24:20
Wblind64.dll 2006/10/09 11:51:37
Wbsrv.dll 2006/10/09 10:40:18
Wbconfig.exe 2006/10/10 16:39:13
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/13 17:29:23

also yes the themes service is running
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I thought you couldn't get the icon back ...

That info looks right to me - does anyone else have any ideas?

[Sorry I couldn't help Hamitamaru]
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
The icon in the tray still isn't there
i got the information from opening the wbconfig.exe directly.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
So how did you get the info?
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My bad - I didn't think of that!
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
I found out that in the preview before applying the skin, the taskbar in stuck in one skin and won't change accordingly, but the window that lets you apply the settings does.

Also the Stardock Windows Blind Service "administarative tools\services" cannot start because it cannot find a specified file. VistaSrv.exe in the installation directory, i don't know where it went. Should i even have that for the XP installation, if so can some on send it to me.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You should try to update your windowblinds version trough Stardock central
HERE
OR
you should contact support with a link to this post and all detailed informations you can tell them: support@stardock.com or HERE
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I would recommend the same, Quentin. Thanks   

-Mike
[Stardock Support]