No more skinning after update

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Hi,

today I updated my WindowBlinds through Impulse. Impulse told be to reboot. After reboot, WindowBlinds is loaded but skinning isn't working anymore. I tried changing the skin which resulted in only changing the system colors and not applying the skinning itself.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.6
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.3 (build 112 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(SyncMaster 205BW/204BW, SyncMaster Magic CX203BW/CX205BW(Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
(SyncMaster 205BW/204BW, SyncMaster Magic CX203BW/CX205BW(Digital)) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Wblind.dll      2008/11/03 20:07:20
Wbsrv.dll      2008/09/22 22:59:22
Wbconfig.exe      2008/11/18 21:02:54
Wbload.exe      2008/04/28 17:35:14
Wbhelp.dll      2008/04/28 17:35:07
Tray.dll           2008/04/28 17:35:21
Wbload.dll           09
Screen.exe      2008/07/22 16:10:09

I'm currently seeing the pure windows style (not even aero enabled) which looks like Windows 3.11

Thanks for any hint to fix this :)

Mirau

 

PS: Selecting the Vista Aero (first on the left) starts the normal Vista theme.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I had major issues with this last update also. Windows Defender turned off, Windows Firewall disabled and I got the reboot till your blind issue....... I ended up uninstalling it (multiple times) and finally trying to load MyColors which also went to classic, so I uninstalled MyColors.

Then I ran Ccleaner, clicked the blue orb in Impulse and under Preferences >  Reset Data.....then I reinstalled MyColors and miracle of miracles...it worked!

So I opened up Impulse again and saw that an update to Windowblinds (which wasn't installed) was avaiable from 6.00.00 to 6.30.104 So I did and it FINALLY worked...

3 hours to update....major league PITA

 

edit...you should uninstall and reinstall...looks like you've got at least one borked file

Wbload.dll           09
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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Uninstall WB, reboot your PC, then check the System Registry for the following Keys, delete if found;

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Stardock\WindowBlinds

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\WindowBlinds

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\ObjectDesktop\WindowBlinds

Then, re-install WB via Impulse.

 

 

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The issue will be the missing wbload.dll.

As suggested above a reinstall is needed.