Okay, after following all those instructions, I loaded the 'Acrylic 7' theme, and it still behaves the same. Here is a screen capture of the taskbar. hmmm... I don't see any 'attach image' option here, and drag-and-drop does not work... I'll try uploading to Flickr and linking... https://www.flickr.com/photos/derelllicht/49464670752
Interesting point... on 'My Downloads' page, the WB10 installer is listed as "WindowsBlinds 10 Upgrade" ... I wonder if I should first install WB 8, then upgrade to WB 10 ?? For now, though, I will proceed as if the WB10 install is okay.
Okay, running the WBPurge batch file as admin... Got an error message: 'the module ...\WBCore.exe was loaded but the entry-point DLLUnregisterServer was not found' and 'make sure ...\WBCore.exe is a valid DLL or OCX file and then try again.' I got the same errors for another file, but didn't catch the name. It has now completed, and I'm back to normal Windows. Will continue with the instructions!
Hi all; first, I'm not using Object Desktop at all, I'm only using Windowblinds second, you are correct, @basj ! It is XPWood, not WoodXP... oops !! I love *both* of the XPWood skins. Okay, I just loaded another theme, Radio, which is a paid theme and is quite recent. It shows the same problem with taskbar as the others do. In fact, I can provide more details about what is going on at this point: 1. The only element which i
I just installed WB on my new Windows 10 laptop. WB version: 10.8.4 Windows version: build 18362 The machine is a Microsoft Surface Laptop (Core i5) At first installation, it was "sort of" working... some things didn't display correctly, but it was mostly usable. I also copied all my .wba files over from my Windows 7 machine, and tried installing some of my favorite skins, starting with SetiGreen and WoodXP. When I installed SetiGreen, it caus
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I don't have ObjectDesktop, only Windowblinds and Groupy. However, I *did* find the page that I was looking for, eventually. It was at: Account -> Images -> Stardock Account -> Downloads, Orders & Billing -> My Downloads -> View Product Keys -> (Manage) and that, finally, gave me the list of registered products!! And I only have 1 current activation, so I'm good to go now!!!
I have a new laptop machine that I'd like to add WB to. I know I can activate on several machines, either 3, or 5??, don't exactly recall... Anyway, I'm still using it on my Win7 machine, and so much love it!! I'm pretty sure I installed it previously on at least one, possibly 2 other machines, both of which were laptops. I uninstalled it on one of the old machines, but did not actually de-activate it... I simply forgot. The machine itself has been recycled.<b
Okay, I finally got through that damned hassle... restarted from outside their realm, and poked around until I found a path to their home planet that didn't involve encounters with any of their ships (fortunately, my ship is really fast in hyperspace), had one encounter inside the planetary system, and I fed them one of my crew, just to avoid getting swarmed, then reached the planet and finally got that chore done with. Still had two fight three more sets of them before I could escape b
So what in the H#*@ am I supposed to do, to finally get through here?? I've got the fake human, and am trying to get to their homeworld planet, but this is just impossible !! I'm already inside their planetary system, just a couple of inches from the planet, but I get a CONSTANT stream of ships attacking me, one after another after another. I can keep my ship alive, but I'm never going to actually reach that damned planet !!! Was I supposed to have done something else
I previously visited the system where the Hurnia and Halgoth were located, in a system named Altair. Now that I have better equipment, I want to go revisit it, but I cannot find it !! Is there some way to search for a star ??? Nevermind, it was really simple... I can just type a name into the field next to "search" ... duh...
OH !! Is that why I had so many ships available last time I visited a star base ??? I was wondering about that !!! Thank you!!
So does anything happen with these wrecks? He always says "maybe we can fix this later", but I don't know of anything that's actually happening with them !!
AHA!!! Very excellent, basj, thank you!!! Yep, all my purchased themes are listed there... I'm confused about the relationship between wincustomize.com and Stardock... I use the same login for both sites, and Wincustomize knew when I re-purchased WindowBlinds a couple of years ago, and switched me to unlimited downloads. Yet it doesn't actually know what I've purchased and what I haven't... it is sort of odd... ???
I went back to leave a review of Nuetron II, which I purchased awhile back, and *really* love!! However, when I display the page for it, it still displays 'Buy now for $5.95' ... I'm logged in with my normal user account, so I would have expected the site to know that I already purchased that theme?? Is that a mistaken expectation? Or does the site really not know that I purchased it?? I haven't yet tested with any other skins, though I've purchased a handful of
One of the reasons that I'm pursuing this, is that I would like to modify this skin (and some of the others) to support later Windows versions; don't know how much work that's going to be, but there are several that I really like, and would be cool to have updated.
Admittedly, that's an easy answer, which requires no thought. (BTW, I'm on Windows 7, not Windows 10) However, what I'm actually looking for is a fix for the theme, since it is a standard wba file. What could Windowblinds be doing with the theme, that would disable explorer.exe ?? Later: BTW, I loaded the theme into SkinStudio 10, then saved it under a different name, and it *still* prevents explorer.exe from running.  
Nope, same issue(s) without Classic Shell. BTW, I've tried other early non-taskbar themes, and they *don't* have the Explorer issue; this is only with Alibaba.
I've discussed this concept (using older themes) before, but I'm having a problem now that I haven't had before; I'm hoping someone can help me with it. I'll confess that there are many older themes (pre-WinXP) that I really like. Some beautiful, creative things were done in the early days, which unfortunately were never ported into the modern taskbar world. With most of these themes, the main problem is simply that the taskbar/notification_area don'
hmmm... well, in the various other forums where I've used it, over the past decade, it has presented no problems. Anyway, I first tried dropping the image into my post, but it displayed as garbage text instead of an image. I'm glad you were able to make it work.
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Okay, I'll try that out, though it doesn't seem to offer the level of control that I enjoy with Windows... I want to set the following (using Windows names): icon - used for desktop icons and labels <span st
While trying other ideas to address my title-bar issues with ConEmu, I added the ConEmu executable to "Per Application" settings. Then, instead of just saying "ignore this application", I selected a different style for it, under "Style to use for this application". It is really beautiful, and seems to solve the title-bar conflicts that I discussed in a previous message. However, this setting seems to cause other problems with certain dialog boxes, including both ConEmu:Setti
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Thanks for the response, Neil; I know that you'd prefer that I use Skin Studio to change fonts, rather than the Windows font properties... but the truth is, Skin Studio is a *very* difficult tool to use for this purpose!! The Windows tool is far easier, more intuitive, and I've been using it for years for this purpose (though I know I won't have the option any more, if I'm ever forced to move to Win8 or Win10); that is why I continue to use it. I es
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BTW, this issue had previously been discussed by someone else, on the ConEmu support forum: https://github.com/Maximus5/ConEmu/issues/291 The ConEmu author said: "I consider this is a bug of Windowblinds or exact theme. Contact their authors. Weird arguments come into WM_NCCALCSIZE while using that t
I've been having a variety of very annoying issues with various themes; what will happen is, when I apply the theme, the tab bar or menu bar will be drawn on top of the title bar on the window; in many cases this makes the minimize/maximize/close buttons (on the title bar) inaccessible. The program that I see this most frequently in is ConEmu (a container program which lets user run multiple consoles in tabs, in one application). However, it happens with other programs as we
Yes!! That worked, after a bit of suffering... uninstall also failed, saying some .dll file was missing. So I tried re-installing and rebooting, which didn't make WB10 work correctly, but it *did* allow me to uninstall it, and then after re-installing and rebooting, it works fine!! You may want to warn people to uninstall WB8 before upgrading to WB10... at least on Windows 7... something didn't go right there... However, it's working now, and seems to b
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