Applying the Default 98 MS Skin upon reboot.

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I'll apply a skin, works fine, I'll reboot the system after a day or so, and said skin (any WB skin) will revert to the 98 scheme, I have to reapply Vista Aero and THEN reapply a WB skin to get it to show properly. Anyone else having this issue?

 

A few other posts sound familiar ot this but not exactly.


Hi.

I use the latest version of WindowBlinds, and it was working fine on my Vista 64-bit system... until I changed my video card to a EVGA GTX 260. Now, the skin I want, Azenis2, will not load; instead, the classic Windows 98Tanapangarap look loads. The only other skin that will load on startup if I set it is the Windows Vista skin. In order to get Azenis2 to load again, I have to load either the 98/ME classic skin or the Vista skin, and THEN load Azenis2. But when I restart my computer Azenis2 has to be loaded manually the same way.

I already checked to confirm that "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\ObjectDesktop\WindowBlinds" is showing the correct path. Additionally, a Stardock representative I was corresponding with via email had me send in a startup.log and diaxdiag.txt and suggested I shut down or add exceptions to Avira, but strangely, although turning off the active scanner and then restarting seemed to work once, I could not replicate my luck (additional restart trying the same thing did not yield positive results), and disabling, adding exceptions to (all of the Stardock folder), and reinstalling Avira had no effect. The fact that the problem kept occuring even when Avira was installed showed me that Avira was not the source of the problem.

I was wondering if anyone here has an idea what the problem is? Has anyone else shared this problem?

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from Here. is very familiar, as I have installed a new GTX260 within the last few months, but a few months have gone by and this problem only started maybe a week ago. I also keep all my disks defragmented on a daily / weekly basis so this is not an issue.

Yes I have the latets verison of WB installed, Vista is fully kept up to date, yes I uninstalled my previous graphics drivers before installing the new ones.

Here is my WB system info:

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

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.4 (build 129 x86 - Vista Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(SyncMaster 226BW(Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260
(SyncMaster 226BW,SyncMaster Magic CX226BW(Analog)) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

Wblind.dll         2009/03/24 13:59:20
Wblind64.dll         2009/03/24 17:03:54
Wbsrv.dll         2009/03/24 17:03:31
Wbconfig.exe         2009/02/10 17:52:20
Wbload.exe         2009/02/10 18:28:14
Wbhelp.dll         2009/02/10 18:28:07
Tray.dll              2009/02/10 18:28:21
Wbload.dll              2008/04/28 12:34:28
Screen.exe         2009/02/10 18:28:09

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Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

have you also contacted Avira to see if they can offer any solution?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Whoa, I am not the only person with the issue. I see we both use the same GPU, and a 64-bit PC. A Stardock representative also suggested to me that Avira is a possible reason for conflict, so I disabled it, tried adding exceptions for the WindowBlinds software, and even uninstalled Avira, but to no avail. At first, though, I thought disabling Avira helped because, when I rebooted, the WindowBlinds skin I wanted to use loaded, but successive restarts did not repeat my good fortune.