Terrible stability issues - Constant screen corruption and explorer crashes

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I recently purchased the full pkg. I've disabled everything but WB after just a couple of days, due to stability issues. At this point, it seems that the issue is WB.

Sure, the blinds is really neat, but I can't live like this. If I can't get this thing working 100%, I don't want it.

I've rebooted my machine more times in the past week than in the previous three months - no question. I get all sorts of screen corruptions. Buttons will appear to have been chopped down a little, missing one end or the other. Screens won't repaint. The entire toolbar in IE will disappear. As I move the mouse around, I can get it to come back in pieces. By far the worst, however, is the fact that windows explorer keeps crashing, requiring reboots. If I try to enable a skin, half the time it will crash explorer. If I turn off the skins because I've had enough of the screen problems, crash. Sometimes, the screen painting issues seem to get better if I unload programs. I have a gig of ram and I'd like to think that's enough to run a few apps. I've tried all the stock skins, thinking it might be skin-specific.

This is an HP pavilion zd7000.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you.



WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5600

Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/20 12:23:40
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
First of all, sorry for a late response.

You are a valued customer (and community member) and we all here to help you.



Have you tried "Enable this if you have corrupted title-bar buttons and manues" option (WBConfig's System Information ---- Look at the right-bottum) .. ?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes, I randomly discovered those two settings and set them both a couple of days ago.

I went to the nvidia web site in search of an updated driver and they had no mention of a single update ever for my card.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I can't see my response. If this is a dupe, forgive me.

I enabled both those options a couple of days ago, just in case.

From what I can gather, nvidia has never released a single update to my driver, so I'm "current".

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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm ... Ok ..

Try doin this:

1. Completely Uninstall WB 5 using SDC ...

2. Reboot

3. Delet c:\program files\stardock\object desktop\windowblinds

4. Download / Install current build (5.00(b).006) through SDC...

5. Reboot .. !!!

6. Activate WB and apply skins


Regards
BX
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
2.5. Backup your skins first!
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
From what I can gather, nvidia has never released a single update to my driver, so I'm "current".


For mobile devices (laptops) you won't get the most recent driver from nVidia - you need to look at the HP website (in your case).

The nVidia site specifically says that the mobile chipsets have to have manufacturer-customised drivers.

I have a Toshiba notebook with GForce Go 5200 and I can't get the drivers from anywhere except the Toshiba support site.

FWIW.

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