Two version of the same application - same executable name

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Hi,

 as far as I could understand, the "per application" association to themes relies on the executable name only, without any reference to path, registry or anything else... I'd like to associate two different themes to two version of the same program: same executable name in different folders. 

Can somebody help me?

 

Thank you

windowblinds
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Unfortunately WindowBlinds does not handle that case and assumes applications would each have their own filename.

Are you able to rename one of them to say appname2.exe?

As an alternative you could have a batch file to launch the app and write to the wbperapp.ini file the skin you want for app A and a different batch file for the second app and write the skin for that to the ini.  The per app is checked on app load so as long as they are both launched with more than say a second between them it should work.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top


Hi,

 as far as I could understand, the "per application" association to themes relies on the executable name only, without any reference to path, registry or anything else... I'd like to associate two different themes to two version of the same program: same executable name in different folders. 

Can somebody help me?

 

Thank you
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Rename one of the app eexcutables, perhaps assign a version number to the name.

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