WindowBlinds crashes Explorer on reboot

Just purchased this yesterday

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Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.5
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.02 (build 75 x86 - Vista Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Hannstar HG216) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

Wblind.dll         2008/01/28 14:31:20
Wblind64.dll         2007/11/02 14:33:06
Wbsrv.dll         2007/09/27 17:47:05
Wbconfig.exe         2008/01/15 12:17:35
Wbload.exe         2007/09/27 17:47:44
Wbhelp.dll         2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll              2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll              2007/09/26 11:53:28
Screen.exe         2007/11/08 14:17:51


Ok, this is driving me ABSOLUTELY crazy!
I just puerchased this software lastnight and it worked Fantastic until I rebooted my machine.
Every time I reboot my machine and log into Vista Ultimate 64Bit, my skins change to the one I had chosen B4 I rebooted but the Start button will dissapear and explorer will lock up and cease to work and the only way to stop this from happening is to very quickly switch the skins over to Windows Classic or Vista's standard Theme.

Here's the Event Log error that has come up:

Faulting application Explorer.EXE, version 6.0.6000.16549, time stamp 0x46d235d0, faulting module WBLIND64.dll_unloaded, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x470a73be, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x000007ff6609b12b, process id 0x7e8, application start time 0x01c89acfbe8cf5c6.

Every single time it does this and I have already tried reinstalling twice.
Please tell me someone has an idea of whats going on???
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Same problem here for me. I did some kind of update with Impulse and when I rebooted WB crashes my system. The start button disappears and the computer hangs. What is worse, after I have removed every stardock application from my computer Vista Aero no longer works. I don't even have it as an option on my machine, I can only use windows classic now and there is no apparent way to turn aero back on as all the aero options are missing from my system!

What happened? Can we get a patch ASAP! How do I get my aero back?!
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
By the way, I am using the 32bit version and still getting the same problem.
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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I did, I uninstalled EVERY stardock application and still no luck.

HOWEVER, I did just fix the problem by downloading the free trial of WindowBlinds and installing that. Somehow that restored both Vista Aero and also WB itself seems to be working.

I am scared to update any of my SD software. Is there a patch for this?
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Locking this one...as there are two...which makes one redundant....;)