WindowBlinds 7 (trial) crashing explorer

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Hello,

I recently tried WindowBlinds again after quite many years if performance had increased (which it seemed to have). Sadly explorer.exe kept crashing.


Usually I was able to reproduce it by changing skin to Sabertooth (Win 7, alt) and then to Aero Colors (if I remember name correctly) or by unloading WindowBlinds.

Windows 7 (64-bit) Ultimate, Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3 GHz, 4 GB, ATI Radeon HD 4750. Running background software beside WindowBlinds included Microsoft's Security Essentials (on-demand scanning disabled though). Attached below (from first to the last) the crash reports from Event Viewer, though I am unable to test more as I uninstalled Windowblinds (sorry, I need stable explorer ;)).'

The second crash happened almost right after the first one (unless my memory fails me, I was switching from Sabertooth to Aero Colors). The other smaller issue that initially when enabling Sabertooth skin the task bar preview feature (which shows the window thumbnail when hovering active program on task bar) was not working. The thumbnail preview worked fine after the crash when I switched back to Sabertooth from Aero color.

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000001d8000a
Faulting process id: 0x8bc
Faulting application start time: 0x01caaae0dbb50dd7
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: d17e93e6-18eb-11df-b372-001a9f601a8a

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: WBLIND64.dll_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b695f5c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000007ff6500e252
Faulting process id: 0x7e8
Faulting application start time: 0x01caacf8b1871598
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: WBLIND64.dll
Report Id: f23d7915-18eb-11df-b372-001a9f601a8a

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Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000204000a
Faulting process id: 0x934
Faulting application start time: 0x01caacf8c34ff502
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: b3a4be89-18ef-11df-b372-001a9f601a8a

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: WBLIND64.dll_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b695f5c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000007ff6500e252
Faulting process id: 0xba0
Faulting application start time: 0x01caacfc98d228e4
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: WBLIND64.dll
Report Id: d90426fa-18ef-11df-b372-001a9f601a8a

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Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000037d000a
Faulting process id: 0x418
Faulting application start time: 0x01caacfc9f089e66
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: ff0cd56a-18f0-11df-b372-001a9f601a8a

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000035a000a
Faulting process id: 0xc98
Faulting application start time: 0x01caacfde20c5b19
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 054d6503-18f2-11df-b372-001a9f601a8a

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Was this 7.0 or 7.01?

An easy way to tell is if there was a "Modified Aero" theme in the list and if on first run you got a guided tour.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

There is Modified Aero so it is 7.01. I reinstalled it again to see if I can trace the problem more accurately, now that I have some spare time. As clarification Windows 7 is 64-bit version.

1. Installed Windowblinds.

2. Activate Sabertooth visual style. Spot this kind of small problem: http://rihkama.kapsi.fi/pub/wb_taskbar_bug.png

3. Attempt to get it fixed by changing Sabertooth styles to alt and back (Windows 7), no help.

4. Switched to Aero Colours visual style. This caused a "what the heck" moment for me as instead of Explorer.exe Putty Tray (ssh client) crashed (which worked fine on my earlier tests):

Faulting application name: putty.exe, version: 0.60.3.0, time stamp: 0x4748aec9
Faulting module name: WBLIND.dll_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b695f20
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x6608c9ea
Faulting process id: 0x1d4
Faulting application start time: 0x01caad7a0b42a592
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Putty\putty.exe
Faulting module path: WBLIND.dll
Report Id: eb4b574e-196d-11df-9786-001a9f601a8a

5. Switched back to Sabertooth, worked fine, no crashes. Fixed the earlier issue of taskbar preview not working.

6. Switched back to Aero Colours. Explorer crashed twice.

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000003d2000a
Faulting process id: 0x870
Faulting application start time: 0x01caad79f08bd41f
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 3367425a-196e-11df-9786-001a9f601a8a

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: WBLIND64.dll_unloaded, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b695f5c
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000007ff6500e252
Faulting process id: 0xc84
Faulting application start time: 0x01caad7b1521e738
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: WBLIND64.dll
Report Id: 55658a06-196e-11df-9786-001a9f601a8a

7. Switched to Diamond and back to Sabertooth and back to Diamond, no crashes.

8. Switched to Aero Wood from Diamond, explorer crashed.

Faulting application name: Explorer.EXE, version: 6.1.7600.16450, time stamp: 0x4aebab8d
Faulting module name: unknown, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x0000000001f9000a
Faulting process id: 0xddc
Faulting application start time: 0x01caad7b1ad1d3d9
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\Explorer.EXE
Faulting module path: unknown
Report Id: 1e3470ce-196f-11df-9786-001a9f601a8a

9. Unloaded Windowblinds, no crash.

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