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WB failure to launch

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I just purchased and installed Windowblinds 7 on Windows 7 32 bit. I used the Impulse program to download and install. 

Every time I try to start WB it crashes. "WindowBlinds 7 Configuration APP has stopped working." It shows the program and sometimes will start to show the themes at the bottom and then stops with the above message. I've updated and verified and run as administrator without luck. WEI score 4.0. Intel pentium 4, 3.2GHz. NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS. 4 GB RAM. 

Any thoughts or suggestions?

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Reply #27 from Stardock Forums Top

Spot on!

I removed the added themes from C:\users\user-name\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\themes and.......BINGO!

It's all working now. So I have to go through the add-ons and figure out which one was the culprit.

Thanks Neil for taking the time to provide some constructive comments to help sort this out.

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Reply #28 from Stardock Forums Top

If you can let us know which additional theme was the problem we can look into fixing the issue.

Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top

Quick update to this, I believe I have found the problem.  It is a path limit inside the WB UI as unlike every other kind of substyle the full path is being stored for those and thats exceeding the internal buffers for paths. 

I hope we can get an update out which sorts this out at some point this week.

Reply #30 from Stardock Forums Top

Great, I look forward to an update.

Well I can't pin it to one theme. It seems like having multiple themes in different combinations in that folder (C:\users\user-name\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\themes) causes it to crash. I'll keep trying to narrow it down.

Reply #32 from Stardock Forums Top

The update totally worked. Nice job.

I can put any or all back and no Crash. They all are available as sub styles.

Thanks again Neil