WindowBlinds Crashes Over and over when Progress bars are showing.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Is the issue only happen with specific Windowblind style? Does the issue happened with any styles that come with Windowblinds.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Thank you for the reply. I just completed some tests with different skins. The problem occurs  with all the skins I tested. 

My Favorite Theme which is Atheros ( a Master Skin )  and with the built in skins Acrylic, Corporate, Diamond. 

For this test I used the applications  "MultiPar"  and "GoodSync" which have progress bars . 

Try this, run a search in your File explorer and see if the progress bar appear or crashes happened.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Hello,  The progress bar in the search field does appear,  and it does not cause a crash (but the header seems misaligned.

I am wondering if it has to to with the 4k display and high resolution I am running. 3840x2160. 

Things like Acrobat reader .. the title bar is all weird. and trying to move the window does not work. ( I can of course exclude the app)

I am running Windows Blinds, Start10 CursorFX and "8GadgetPack (which is not from stardock but  it brings back windows & Gadget platform and might be relevant to this issue.

I am suspecting that I might be a unique case. None of this information seems to be particularly helpful.

I am running on 4K Monitor too. I don't have crash issues on progressbar. Please try purge and reinstall steps as mentioned here: https://forums.stardock.com/486084/fences-support-faq#reinstalling Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account. Reboot after the purged. Reinstall, and Reboot again after the installation. Retest it. Report back here.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Hello. I uninstalled Not only WindowBlinds but CursorFX and Start10 as well.  I ran the purge script as elevated user. rebooted.

Downloaded JUST  window blinds and installed it. Activated it  and rebooted.

I ran the same test. with just Multipar (creating a par set)  and brought a windows explorer window up.

Windows blind immediate began crashing (Although not as fast as before) It would only crash as long Multipar was not the foreground app. Once I changed the focus to another window the crashing began.

I have not yet  installed Start10 or CursorFX so we can rule those out.

Here is the event log:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        Application Error
Date:          9/13/2020 1:05:11 PM
Event ID:      1000
Task Category: (100)
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Nyx
Description:
Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.19041.488, time stamp: 0xb1a44bf9
Faulting module name: WBLIND64.dll_unloaded, version: 10.8.4.0, time stamp: 0x5dd0066e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000007167c
Faulting process id: 0x1b10
Faulting application start time: 0x01d689effa56250d
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Faulting module path: WBLIND64.dll
Report Id: c7eae559-0471-4439-8fcf-d63991ee05a2
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Application Error" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1000</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>100</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-09-13T17:05:11.0312349Z" />
    <EventRecordID>52347</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Nyx</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>explorer.exe</Data>
    <Data>10.0.19041.488</Data>
    <Data>b1a44bf9</Data>
    <Data>WBLIND64.dll_unloaded</Data>
    <Data>10.8.4.0</Data>
    <Data>5dd0066e</Data>
    <Data>c0000005</Data>
    <Data>000000000007167c</Data>
    <Data>1b10</Data>
    <Data>01d689effa56250d</Data>
    <Data>C:\Windows\explorer.exe</Data>
    <Data>WBLIND64.dll</Data>
    <Data>c7eae559-0471-4439-8fcf-d63991ee05a2</Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
    <Data>
    </Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Just to be on the safe side  I also uninstalled the 8gadget pack just to see if that was causing the issue.

And no.. it is uninstalled and the issue still occurs.

Hello,

I tried multipar on my system and there was no crash. Please try Cleanboot to see if other program is conflicting with Windowblinds : https://forums.stardock.com/486023/windowblinds-support-faq#cleanboot

Try that and report back.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

I logged in as another admin user and the problem does not occur.

So  apparently it has something to do with my profile.

Hopefully we can find out what it is without having to recreate the profile.

Re-setting up dozens of programs is not something I relish.

Thank you  for your time.

That crash is shown as a dll unloaded situation which should not happen when WindowBlinds is running as the dll would remain in process.  This would suggest something is forcing the dll to be removed from memory.

Looking again at my event log.

This Error event occurs right before window blinds crashes.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        .NET Runtime
Date:          9/13/2020 10:14:07 PM
Event ID:      1026
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      Nyx
Description:
Application: Explorer.EXE
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 000007FF6607167C
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name=".NET Runtime" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-09-14T02:14:07.6819619Z" />
    <EventRecordID>53523</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
    <Channel>Application</Channel>
    <Computer>Nyx</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>Application: Explorer.EXE
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: exception code c0000005, exception address 000007FF6607167C
</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>