Will Rose

Thanks Neil... I downgraded and that fixed the problem. For other readers, 5.01 build 62, dated 3/29/06, is the good one.

Thanks Kris... Can you let me know if there's a fix or workaround? I'd appreciate it.

Interesting, Night Train, thanks... Can anyone comment who has the latest version?

A followup, Neil... I had occasion to reboot after my previous post, and NOW the tooltip says: WindowBlinds 4.5 However, selecting "About Windowblinds" from the tooltip reports: 4.6 (build 214) SDC says the version installed is 4.60.048 Thanks...

Yes, that is correct, Neil. (BTW I have never installed shareware or even standalone WB. It's always been from SDC (or component manager before that). The screen offers me WB for $19.95 etc... The tooltip says exactly: WindowBlinds 4 (4.6 (build 214)) Thanks....

Thanks for your reply Zubaz. I am running 4.60 now and there is no "System Info" option. I did see that option in 5.01 though.

Well, I own WB through Object Desktop, and I see the "purchase reminder" screen too. I used to have WB 4.60.048 installed and everything was fine: no nags, no crashes. I then used Stardock Central to uninstall 4.60, rebooted, and installed WB 5.01.006. I found that 5.01 crashed (in the wbconfig screen) as soon as I clicked on one of several skins that WB4 had no problems with (such as Antares or Apogee), so I wanted to downgrade. I used SDC to uninstall 5.01

I have a theory, but I need a little information... Are you on XP? Is your user ID a member of the Administrators group? This will sound weird, but try to run Event Viewer and clear an event log... Then try to use device manager... If you try to do something like that, what happens? Does everything work normally?