Windows Blinds Slow my pc heavily

yes i tried to reinstall it and uninstall other stardock software

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/
from Stardock Forums

So basically i wanted to have the good ol' windows xp theme and installed windows blinds until now it have slowed down my pc ive uninstall it and my pc was back to normal but when i install it, it is slow. The application in question that are slow is google chrome and roblox and the pc itself ! google chrome issue is that when im starting the app and go to youtube whatever video i play will do 3 black screen in a row and the 4th one will just broke the video until i refresh the page. lastly after that youtube glitch the google chrome will be slower and will sometimes have some HEAVY CPU AND GPU drops (basically everything will load slower or will not load). and for roblox when i will launch a game on the website it will take 30 sec before launching the game OR will not launch at all and will say something like "roblox timed out try Window boot". So yeah that's pretty much it that and the fact that the pc itself will be x2 slower 

help windows blinds stardock software windowblinds
7,043 views 10 replies
Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. First, please check if this setting is enabled. If it enabled please disable it, from what I know Chrome base browser no longer work/skinable for Windowblinds. Do that first and see if the issue goes away. Report back.

 

Thank you.
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hey thanks for helping me out, currently its 5 am for me im going to sleep and i will try tomorrow but thank you so much for helping me !

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

alright so actually it was disabled and i tried to turn it on and its working somehow better but now whenever i open a new tab or go in a website there is 1 sec of a flash of the google tab in windows xp theme like at the top where there is all my tab, i dont know if i say it clear. So either way there is a glitch but i guess having turned on is better that lagging and having black screen when opening a video. here is screenshot of what i was saying about the tab, again when i click on a new tab there is 1 sec of a flash of my google chrome's tab in windows xp theme
Oh yeah and roblox still take 20 sec to load when launching a game via the website

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Can we get some basics on your machine? cpu and ram?

What does task manager report about cpu usage and ram usage with and without windowblinds running?

What is your boot time with and without windowblinds?

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

This is my pc with windows blinds and the time it took to boot up


i'll do another post for "without"

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

This is my pc without windows blinds and the time it took to boot up
oh and ive put my pc system information in case  

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting Jokato, reply 3

alright so actually it was disabled and i tried to turn it on and its working somehow better but now whenever i open a new tab or go in a website there is 1 sec of a flash of the google tab in windows xp theme like at the top where there is all my tab, i dont know if i say it clear. So either way there is a glitch but i guess having turned on is better that lagging and having black screen when opening a video. here is screenshot of what i was saying about the tab, again when i click on a new tab there is 1 sec of a flash of my google chrome's tab in windows xp theme
Oh yeah and roblox still take 20 sec to load when launching a game via the website
End of Jokato's quote

If you still see issue when you turn off that option. Please try exclude Chrome from Windowblinds. Use the per application setting. You might also do it to your game that having issue when running Windowblinds.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

I will try that tomorrow and keep you update , again thanks for the help

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

So, google seems fixed ive been using it for a few hours nothing stranged happened but even after i did total exclusion with roblox it's just taking less time to load but still is taking much than when i dont have windows blinds. I searched and found a reddit about it where you tried to help another man and he said this is happening because of something named byfron detecting windows blinds as a cheat but i guess we can't do anything about this , i think windows blinds isnt compatible with roblox. Anyways im gonna keep using windows blinds and let you know if something happen again thank you very much for your help at least google chrome is fixed !

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Great, glad to help.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant