Thanks, but no dice Bichur I'm looking into it but is there any way to make this service start dead last? Right now I have it configured in the Admin Tools Services in XP to start manually. Right now I can't find any way to change their priority but at everything else works.
Thanks Bichur for the link. I'll try that out. Don't have any need for the pw and in any case, Windows loads way faster with that service disabled . In any case let me give it a try and see what happens. Thanks again! Nice to see that there are some very helpful members here. I've belonged to forums in which when you post a problem the answers are: Y our computer is f'ed up! You're an idiot! Y
Glad it helped someone. OK, it's official. The problem is my anti-virus sw, more specifically a Panda Titanium service . I loaded the computer from a cold and warm boot only with the Microsot services from msconfig , Windowblinds loads up fine. Started loading up with the Panda Anti-virus services one by one and when I got to the final one named Panda TPSrv I received the same problem of the toolbar, etc. looking like Windows 95. I tried disabling heuristic scanning and simila
Finally, I'm under way to finding ou what's interfering with WB! I used the zapper but unfortunately it didn't completely solve the problem, WB would only change the wallpaper! I guess something is better than nothing I finally went to msconfig and placed the system is Diagnostic Startup, rebooted and voila! My skins load without any problems! So far I have to start loading the programs from Sta
Thannks, I'll give it a try as soon as I get home
So I got home and uninstalled OD and all other related software then reinstalled WB from OD since I initially installed the trial copy of WB and then bought and updated from OD. I'm still having the same problem. Before uninstalling WB it only skinned my desktop once and then when I changed skins it went back to the Win95-looking skin and would not load any skins at all again. This was the only time it showed the system tray icons as well. I've played around with the settings but don't know w
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. (Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to ALL-IN-WONDER X800 Series Wblind.dll 2006/03/21 13:33:46 Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/05 12:58:22 Wbconf
Thanks, I'll do that as soon as I get home, which won't be soon enough as far as this day is going. I'm already a little worried since after reading some posts of some other people with ATI X1900s who were also having problems that might be driver related. I love my ATI card but that company has never gotten its act together as far as its driver stability.
I installed the trial version of WB5 but was having problems loading any skins properly. The desktop theme looked like Windows 95 as a close description. There were no icons in the system tray except for the system defaults and some others like my anti-virus. I decided to go ahead and purchase OD and then upgraded to WB 5.01. It worked for a while, the skins finally started showing up but not competely. They might show up in the windows but the toolbar would not get skinned at al