Unusual problem

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I run WindowBlinds 4.1, on a W2k machine. I had downloaded numerous windowblinds skins. I recently clean installed my system, installed WB again in the same folder, with all the themes. The old themes do not show. Any suggestions as to how I can let WB acknowledge the old skins? Do I have to edit the uis file? I don't have the .wba files, the program downloads & installed them automatically.
I'd appreciate some assistance. Thanks.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Explain something please. If you clean installed your system(meaning, erased your hard drive and reformatted), and you don't have the .wba files to reinstall the old skins, why are you surprised that they aren't available?

Now, if you somehow retained the old skin folders and you installed to the windowblinds folder then, you probably have a windowblind folder within a windowblind folder. Try this, find wbload.exe and copy one of your skin folders to the folder where wbload.exe resides. If this skin then shows in display properties, then you can move all your other skin folders to that folder.

Or, you can download a new wba and execute it. This way you will be sure that windowblinds is functioning properly. If the new one shows in display properties, then, I would suggest trying what I typed in the middle paragraph, and place all the old skin folders in the directory where the new one that you executed was transferred.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks, ChasUGC. I've solved the problem. What I meant by clean install, is while still retaining the old OS, files etc. This way, u can copy whatever u want to the new OS & then delete the old files. The problem was that WB installed to a different directory than before. I just copied my skins folders to the new directory & gung ho, everything's fine.
Thanks again.
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