update did some serious damage in Vista Home premium 32bit

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Hi

I searched around a bit and while I saw a few posts with problems described I did not find mine so I am posting. If this has already been asked and answered. Please excuse me.

 

Yesterday I installed Impulse as it seems to be the replacement for SD Central. From there I updated WindowBlinds to 6.3 ( I am a registered user). Attempting to change themes afterwards I noticed several of my themes were missing and when I tried to change to a different theme it took a really long time and the start menu came out a different color than the rest of the theme.  This morning I re-booted and find myself in standard Windows XP mode and unable either manually or through Windowblinds' interface to call up the Vista Aero theme.
 
Windowblinds is unable, in fact to change to any theme at all. It goes into the blur for a while for change but when it clears I am still in standard XP mode. I am heartily wishing I had not upgraded since things were perfect before.
 
Any ideas what has gone wrong and what I can do?
 

 

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.1
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 4.4

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
(Generic Non-PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1650 Series
(Generic PnP Monitor) 2 is attached to Radeon X1650 Series

Wblind.dll         2008/11/03 13:07:20
Wbsrv.dll         2008/09/22 15:59:22
Wbconfig.exe         2008/11/18 14:02:54
Wbload.exe         2008/02/14 10:05:14
Wbhelp.dll         2007/08/27 10:54:07
Tray.dll              2007/09/12 16:58:21
Wbload.dll              00
Screen.exe         2008/06/13 10:24:09

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Some of those files seems to be out of sync.
Try uninstalling WB from Impulse, reboot, re-install from Impulse, and re-boot again.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wbload.dll 00
End of quote

Borked install.

With Vista, make sure to disable Windows Defender while you update Impulse/Windowblinds

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

As quite correctly identified above, the issue is a missing file and uninstalling, rebooting and reinstalling should resolve the problem.

Why Impulse sometimes deletes files like that on an upgrade is under investigation.