seppchen

[quote]sorry I couldn't reply sooner but yes so far without the side bar running I have had 0 explorer crashes and my 5 year old grandson and I have been on it all day. Spongebob! This is with no object dock, WC Select WB,exp. backgrounds on with 40% transparency. I'll use side bar tomorrow all day and compare notes. btw while my 'net was down I checked a couple things. Even with nothing running 0-5% cpu 40% mem I have 73 to 77 processes and 78 services running. Is this normal for HP/Vista? For

[quote]Seppchen: If you are having problems with the beta then you should switch back to the non beta. Betas by their nature may have problems. We should be putting up a new build today which has a few tweaks. I would be interested in knowing if this helps with any issues.[/quote] Neil, that's what I did this evening, back to the latest non-beta version. I unchecked beta versions in Stardock Central just to get rid of the temptation to install the latest stuff.

[quote]An additional question for anyone with this problem, are you running deskscapes too?[/quote] I am using Vista Ultimate x64 so I don't need Deskscapes and I don't run it.

[quote]Seppchen: What other applications are you running at the time and what version of WB (6, 6.02, or 6.1 beta)? Also what are you doing in explorer at the time when it crashes?[/quote] Look in the header of this thread for my WB version ! I am copying data from one explorer window to the other (copy and past). Some explorer windows are local other are on a Windows server. Then the sidebar is always running on my second screen with Everest Ultimate Monitor and two weath

I am going to abandon WindowBlinds and all the other Stardock stuff, in spite of the fact that I paid for everything. This morning WBLIND64.dll crashed at least 10 times causing Windows explorer to stop working. For my work I have several explorer windows open on 2 screens. After the WB crash I have to open all windows again and have them to put in place where I need them. This is not funny anymore. WB is probably an excellent application for Windows XP but unfortunately not

[quote]For those of you who have had issues with explorer with the 6.1 beta, are you doing anything in particular at the time when it crashes. Also do you run deskscapes?[/quote] Two things I noticed: 1) According to my event logs wbhelp64.dll (64 bit)crashed, but according to Stardock system info wbhelp.dll (32 bit I guess)is installed. 2) Some "spyware" installed by Adobe and Corel like FlexnetLicensing, Bonjour, etc... prevent WB sometimes from loading correctly at b

[quote]Yeah, thinking about it, #2 seems more like a bug strictly in WindowBlinds (unless Stardock intended that effect), but #1 and #3 could be problems with graphics card compatibility.Actually, when I look closer, the "translucency" of the start menu seems actually to be WB taking a screenshot of whatever is behind the menu and drawing the start menu image on top of that. I figured this because a CursorFX cursor that has a hotspot somewhere in the middle of the image instead of the top-left a

[quote]Just got the crash again.Edit: Just got it again... this is getting annoying, especially since it closes background programs I run.As many as you want (data from the Vista x64 Event viewer):Explorer.EXE 6.0.6001.18000 4791970c wbhelp64.dll 4.0.0.1 40fa6879 c00000fd 0000000000001ba0 a0c 01c87b003d14e4ff Explorer.EXE 6.0.6001.18000 4791970c WBLIND64.dll 6.1.0.0 47b6c669 c0000005 0000000000061499 1034 01c87b0084b9804f I have loads of them

[quote]Just got the crash again.Edit: Just got it again... this is getting annoying, especially since it closes background programs I run.[/quote] As many as you want (data from the Vista x64 Event viewer): Explorer.EXE 6.0.6001.18000 4791970c wbhelp64.dll 4.0.0.1 40fa6879 c00000fd 0000000000001ba0 a0c 01c87b003d14e4ff Explorer.EXE 6.0.6001.18000 4791970c WBLIND64.dll

Stardock Central installed the latest beta on my Vista x64 system. To my great surprise my two good old friends are back: "Windows Explorer stopped working" and "Windows Explorer is restarting". I was really missing my two budies (:(

[quote]Yes this is now fixed.[/quote] No, it is not fixed ! In WindowBlinds 6.09c(b).118 the icons in the notification area on my Vista x64 system are still blurred and ugly. Not on my Vista 32 system, there they are fine.

The latest IconPackager runs fine on my Vista Ultimate x64 SP1

[quote] What problems are you having with SP1 on Vista 64? I am not aware of any problems. [/quote] I am using the Executive skin. Since I installed Vista x64 SP1,system windows are not skinned anymore and almost unreadable, for example the message windows of Windows Firewall. The system icons (Sidebar, Bluetooth, Network, etc...)in the notification area look really ugly (with artefacts). The program icons (Outlook, Symantec, Rai

[quote] All windowblinds skins will work in Vista some better than others. The "vista ready" lable is quite recent and more skins will have this designation in time. [/quote] I use the Executive skin, which is "Vista Ready", and it doesn't work correctly any more in Vista x64 SP1. System windows are not skinned (f.e the Windows Firewall windows) and not readable. System icons in the notification tray are really ugly (with artefacts). The prog

[quote] yeap...and they work great [/quote] Correction ! WindowBlinds USED to work great in Vista 64 but not anymore in Vista 64 SP1 RTM.

[quote] SP1 Vista is still beta. Nothing is guaranteed until it's a full release I am afraid. Some troubles have been reported with SP1 with some program though I have not heard anything about WindowBlinds yet. [/quote] Vista SP1 is not beta anymore, SP1 RTM has been released to the 15.000 lucky one's and I am one of them. To answer the question: the latest version of WindowBlinds wor

[quote] All my other software (Adobe, Corel, Pinnacle, etc...) and even WindowBlinds is working better and faster under Vista SP1. Why can all those hundreds of software houses produce software that works in Vista SP1 with UAC off and why can't Stardock do that ? Try comparing apples to apples not apples to oranges. The three companies you mention have development teams larger than all of Stardock working on only one single a

[quote] You can thank Microsoft for the DesktopX delays. Their idiotic security implementations not only make it hard to get things like DesktopX working but they keep changing them (like in SP1) to make it worse. So we keep having to find ways to work around it. If it weren't for UAC, we would have hda 3.5 out last Summer. [/quote] This sounds strange to me ;-) I was not very fond about Vista RTM, but anyway I install

[quote] Try Vista SP1 !You will never mourn about good old XP again. Ok, how about "better be late than Vista without SP1" &

[quote] Better be late than Vista [/quote] Try Vista SP1 !You will never mourn about good old XP again.

I have Vista SP1 RTM installed and DesktopX as well as the DXWidgets crash !!!!!

Not only the Beta release of Vista SP1. I have SP1 RTM running and DesktopX crashes all the time as well as the DXWidgets.

Upgraded to Windows Vista SP1. DesktopX and DXwidgets don't work anymore (DXwidget stopped working). I am having this problem on three Vista SP1 computers.