Why doesnt Winblinds skin the Display properties in XP

It does not skin display properties to protect the user from a bad skin. It would be very difficult for you to change skins if you were to apply a skin that was messed up and made the display properties unusable. If you wish to forgo this protection, add the following line to your wb.ini file, which is in your windows directory....SkinDisplay=1

That makes sense. I wonder why this protection is not integrated in Windows 2k.

Because Display properties wasn't the interface used to change skins, I believe.

as i understand it WB isnt so tightly integrated into win2k as it is in winXP, so if you applied a bad skin it would be easier to get out of it in win2k

Under WinXP Windowblinds is accessed via the display properties dialog. Prior that, with other versions of Windows, Windowblinds was a seperate application. A bad skin can really screw things up,especially when you are a new user and your nice new XP install got totaly trashed - who you gonna blame ... brad wardell (sung to the theme from Ghostbusters). Stardock being wise decided obviously nobody sits as their pc looking at the display properties dialog all day long, apart from themers and skinners, so just to be safe it can be left unskinned - but if you really want it done it only takes adding the line above into wb.ini and it is skinned for you.

OK, thanx everyone for the advice, I found it a little puzzling at first, but now it makes perfect sense.