Window Blinds 10 Trial Black Screen Bug

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I downloaded the trial for Window Blinds 10 yesterday after hearing that Windows 10 is supported now, but I'm having a major issue with my entire screen going black after I switch the theme once or twice. Luckily, the alt-tab screen still sort of works and I'm able to awkwardly use that to change the theme back, clicking at the blackness where the buttons should be. Changing the theme back to windows default sometimes fixes the black screen, sometimes I also have to reboot afterwards. Anyone have an idea what may be causing this?

I own and run Fences, and have used Winaero Tweaker to customize a few appearance settings in Windows 10.

My video card is an Nvidia Geforce GTX 770. AMD FX-8350 8-core CPU. Graphics drivers are up to date as of 03/17/2016.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Anyone have an idea what may be causing this?
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 1



Anyone have an idea what may be causing this?

 

Winaero Tweaker

Use a hack, pay the price.

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Thank you for your enlightening insight. Surely it is silly to use programs which modify Windows appearance settings! Oh wait. This is the Window Blinds forum and changing the way Windows looks is exactly what Stardock does. Bugger off if you're not going to be helpful. The only thing I've changed with Winaero Tweaker is font style and enabled colored title bars.

 

My antivirus is just Windows Defender. I used Avast! for awhile but had some conflicts with a few games/programs that drove me mad so I uninstalled it. The black screen happens just after the loading animation for the theme ends. I can still see my cursor, and the alt-tab menu, but everything else goes black.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Try removing the Tweaker program and see if that resolves it.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Okay, I may have figured out what was causing it.

I reverted Winaero Tweaker's changes to default and removed it, but it continued to black screen.

Then I remembered my screensaver. About a year ago I managed to get AfterDark 4.0 to run on Windows 10. It runs a little program in the system tray by default, which just opens a defunct options menu. I probably should have thought about disabling it to start with. AfterDark's screensavers seem to work fine without the tray program running, and so far Window Blinds hasn't black screened since I disabled it. I get to keep my flying toasters, and Window Blinds seems to be working fine now. I've swapped themes repeatedly and no black screen.

 

I'll post again if it resumes black-screening, but I think it's fixed.

 

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I have the same problem and now trying to uninstall it, reinstall a beta version and see if it fixes it