How can I Turn Off Deskscapes?

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Deskscapes works fine for me. I love it. There are times when I need to turn it off and run without all its changes. I expected to find a simple switch somewhere in its configuration controls, but if it's there, I'm blind to it. 

I don't want to uninstall it. Just be able to turn it off and on as I choose. It must be easy to do, or surely someone else would have asked before me. If it's right there in plain sight, feel free to laugh at me. How can I do this?

In case it matters, I got Deskscapes as part of Object Desktop. I have version 10.02 running on Windows 10, version 1909.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

You can turn it off by applying a wallpaper as you usually would through Windows.

You can also turn it off by clicking on the "?" in the upper right corner and selecting "Disable DeskScapes".  Then you should revert to the last non-DeskScapes wallpaper you were using.

Also, you can have your normal non-animated wallpaper folders added in DeskScapes and choose one of those, but DeskScapes will still be "loaded".

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues.

To be clear what changes are you wanting to turn off .

I would think to replace any deskscapes item running on your desktop 

to just replace it with any file explorer image should do what your asking.

No ?

 


AzDude
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting DaveRI, reply 1

You can also turn it off by clicking on the "?" in the upper right corner and selecting "Disable DeskScapes".  Then you should revert to the last non-DeskScapes wallpaper you were using.
End of DaveRI's quote

That option is gone in 10.02

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks, everyone. I didn't want to go into a lot of detail with that post, so I just generalized saying I wanted to turn off the changes. Actually, I found out that the changes I wanted to un-change were by WindowBlinds. I got both programs at the same time, along with CursorFX and IconPackager, and there's a lot of overlap as to which does what. Kind of like a kid at Christmas unwrapping different Legos sets, or something.

Anyway, the issue I had was with Thunderbird email client. The upper right icons on the header had disappeared into a black rectangle (see the image), and it was stuck in Maximize. I was blindly guess-clicking and could get it to Minimize and Maximize, but I could not find Restore. (Note: the "kill" icon doesn't kill, it minimizes to the tray)

Black rectangle, no icons

So, pointing WindowBlinds to Windows Default corrected that problem. This is bound to be a known issue, but I haven't had time to look for it. Later I will  see if I should report it and gather up some info and screenshots, I guess.

Again, thanks.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting AzDude, reply 3

That option is gone in 10.02
End of AzDude's quote

It's still there on my version 10.02.  A Dream or wallpaper applied through DeskScapes does have to be loaded before it shows.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Odd Not mine , ummm

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well, if mine's "broken", I'm ok with it. ;)