Windowblinds screen keeps popping up! Help me Lord Jesus!!

That's easy.....Register it

Don't use Windows Blinds.

Stardock hired Jesus, MAN talk about tech support!

Unbelievable, truly -- an end user complaining about utilizing unregistered software that is nagging him/her to register. Meanwhile, having the audacity to say that this behavior may cost clients (i.e., money). What are you - twelve?

Oh yeah, and popup blockers work for popups that webmasters have coded into their webpages (i.e., popup blockers block windows in web browsers), not popups from other types of programs.

Heh, tonight I'm not feelin' real patient with, or sympathetic to, someone using trialware on the same computer he/she uses for business. Dare I say Oil2003 is a freeloader? Nooo, I don't know his/her situation. It's only speculation at this point.
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@ IP!

Um....I think China gave the correct answer....

It's not as easy as that. What exactly do you need to register windowblinds?

As far as Tryzub - how is it that I'm a freeloader? I'm using a free program on a computer which I use for both personal and business use at home.

Is it possible to have trial software with no annoying popups? All that does it get the user mad enough to quit using the program and not register it (which is something that a lot of people can't do anyway) I had to unload windowblinds and quit using it and start using StyleXP - a 100% free program with free downloads.

BTW - why is it so hard to type in this message box? The text cursor keeps popping up to the top of the box.

I sent them a money order with a handwritten order form.Click on the windowblinds section and there is a link there for ordering WB.

StyleXP isn't a 'program'...it's an unauthorized dll hack that enables the use of simplistic unsigned veriations of the default Window GUI look...nothing more.

The purpose of a 'reminder' is to remind you [curiously enough] to register [pay for] the shareware program you obviously were sufficiently interested in as to install it on 2 computers.

Were you to register the proggy you'd bypass/eliminate your solitary reason for complaint about a program that is far superior in function and capability than what can be achieved by a simple library hack that very probably voids your EULA which can be of real concern on a commercially used computer....

You have no choice man.. Either bear with it, or buy it :/ i keep it up though.. i just wait for new version to come out and BOOM i dl it/install/and make my friend give the good looking skin to me uh.. i think its ok?

/me sits infront of his computer, puzzled

Oh and i forgot to mension >_< StyleXp is a program :/ and is authorized and Microsoft knows it. However, they make you pay for it after 30 days.. O well my friend and i urged out a cd key generator -_- but i don't use it.. sometimes it slows down the computer while im playing Games/Using internet. I'd rather keep the Blue Winxp style However, i need the wallpaper and Ikonpackager from WC with out question

I think he installed it on only 1 PC.One that does double-duty.Oil its worth registering,the program skins more if its registered.Then you can see the cool scrollbars I made.

/me cries I CAN'T SEE THE SCROLLBARs!! NOooooo!

Shameless plug...https://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=1&SkinID=3456
as fine a scrollbar as you can get.hehe
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What's a tad ironic is when in a previous thread Bliss asked if WB is worth buying Oil's response was that he wouldn't "pay for garbage." So, if it's "garbage" why the heck is it on his PC to begin with? And in a unregistered, feature limited version with a known nag screen? And then he complains because (horrors) the nag screen comes up during a business presentation and he was "embarrassed?"

Hey, if someone is doing a presentation for a client one would think the common sense thing to do for a true pro is to ensure the only software running is appropriate in a business situation where you don't want to look like a bozo. Whether it's WB shareware or a dancing nudie animation with a clock in its stomach, turn it off, unload it, uninstall it, whatever.

Another instance of a user induced issue being blamed on a software program.

why exactly do you run 2 firewalls? so you can block specific ports twice?

It's obvious Oil will get no sympathy from any of us. Suffice to say, pay for the shareware program or stop using it. As someone else mentioned, StyleXP is not freeware either. In addition, if you took the time to truly try WindowBlinds 4.x, you might find it useful...especially without the nags screens.

Style XP is not free, and if you have a free copy it's a pirated copy

and this is.... bad! >

Alexandrie, what is the name of that skin in your profile?

It's not as easy as that. What exactly do you need to register windowblinds?

And this is a person that has clients?

Oil, just follow the instructions on that "Annoying Registration Screen"

The DJ....that would be 'PixOS'....as it shows...

Oops, I kept lookin and lookin, hehe. No results when I search for it though.

BTW, firewalls are for blocking unauthorized internet access to and from your computer and popup stoppers work on scripts on web pages. How do you figure either one of these kinds of programs would stop "nag screens" contained in a shareware product on your machine?

If you're using the actual StyleXP program (which is not freeware) you might be interested in the "help..." thread here where someone neither registered (i.e., paid for it) nor uninstalled it before the trial period expired.



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To answer a few questions for you kind people:

Cavanaugh : I have 2 firewalls. The first one is the one built into WindowsXP which is directly part of my internet connection. The second is Norton Personal Firewall 2003.

Alexandrie : Style XP is free through downloads.com. It's freeware. There is no BS trial period or annoying popups that destroy your computer like WB.

I have read quite a few comments on here about Style XP not being freeware, but I have been using it for over a month now with no problems and I downloaded it directly from downloads.com. Unless you guys are talking about a different program.

I really didn't think this thread would get so much attention. I didn't want to tick anybody off, I just wanted to know how to adjust windowblinds so the bug screen would vanish.

Oil2003: Style XP is not free. The hack for unsigned styles which you appear to have is free and is not what people are referring to as Style XP.

The nag screen is there for exactly the purpose you state. It's there to remind you that you've been using the software for long enough to know whether you like it and want to purchase it or don't like it an want to take it off the PC.

Unfortunately people are not honest enough to just give them an app and trust that if they like it they will pay and if they don't they will take it off, so Stardock is forced to use a nag screen.

As you so ably demonstrate they still need to, as if there was no nag screen you would keep happily using the software without even thinking of registering. Even with a nag screen you still don't think of registering but immediately start looking for the alternatives.