P.S: WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.51 (build 97 x86)) WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins. ((Standardmonitor)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 Wblind.dll 2007/06/19 10:39:20 Wbsrv.dll 2007/03/13 09:57:52 Wbconfig.exe 2007/06/19 10:43:03 Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 16:54:14 Wbhel
I use WinXP SP2 and WB 5.5 and everytime I restart Windows I have to use the additional process in order to get WindowBlinds running. When I then log off and on again, the skin is not applied and I have to manually start the additional process once again. Also, it seems to be quite slow whereas on Windows Vista it is loaded right from the start (with no additional process needed) and seems to work flawlessly (same WB version, same computer)? So what is wrong with WB on XP?<
> WB4 and WB5 should not be installed at the same time on the same machine. This never happened.
Well it must have patched the uxtheme.dll (or replaced it, whatever...) because after I installed WB4 I was able to use other skins as well. This was still possible even after I uninstalled WB4. Now that I uninstalled WB5 and replaced the uxtheme.dll with the original one from the WinXP CD and re-installed WB5 I still experience the same problems as before.
Ok, thx for your answers. I have a NVIDIA Geforce4 420 Go graphics card Prevent WindowBlinds from loading on startup was a 9x/2000 option only in WB4. WB on XP has never provided such an option. Ok, this could be possible, but at least WB wasn't loaded automatically when it was unloaded before the computer was shut down. <br/
Ok, thx. At least this works (in previous version you had the option to "prevent windowblinds loading at startup" in the display properties window). But this doesn't fix the other problems (wrong colors, wrong font sizes). I also found another problem that's really annoying: My older 3rd party skins that worked before cannot be applied when WB5 is installed.
I installed WB5 and it seems quite buggy. When I apply a skin the colors are sometimes wrong and when I unload WB the computer sometimes freezes. I also wonder if there is a way NOT to start WB when Windows starts (like it was possible in previous versions).
I have Windowblinds 4.4 Enhanced and it works fine with Win XP, but it won't install on WinNT4. Version 3.5 works with NT4 but as I only found a shareware version it's not possible to skin the scrollbars (and also some other limitations). I wonder if it's possible to get a full version of WB 3.5 (I am a registered WB 4.4 user)?
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