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[quote who="Jafo" reply="36" id="3398595"] Quoting sambastrakan, reply 35I don't think it's the load of the files which is causing explorer to hang If the 'hang' is ONLY on boot then it can also be something else loading/running which is interupting the loading of Explorer....and once the OS has booted it no longer occurs. You have already stated that you no longer see a 'hang' now that you have moved the WB files and pagefile to

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Jafo, sorry, we won't reach an agreement. [e digicons]:grin:[/e] And I think you loose something: when the logon "goes bad" the uis2 frame is used instead of "per pixel" one (on any app, not only explorer). Obviously I don't know how WB works and perhaps there is an explanation for that ? Still when logon goes bad, If I start another soft than explorer at first, like notepad++, it starts fast and appears also with uis2 frame. Or explorer needs a lot more files to work

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[quote who="mabreedlove" reply="31" id="3398561"] If I blamed anything, I would probably be concerned about these: TuneUp Utilities, and Glary Utilities. You should toss this one considering there's tons of papers on why they cause far more harm then good including crashing programs, killing your registry, or just outright do nothing. Screwing around with the settings that WindowBlinds already adjusts is probably the worst thing I can think of out of all

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="30" id="3398557"] Quoting sambastrakan, reply 29[reading your posts, i don't know if it's really the case but i notice some kind of sarcasm] No...certainly not sarcasm...just an explanation of Microsoft's 'policy'. It's not so much about how fast a drive is...whether 10k rpm or SSD ...but actually more about address. When the SSD is 'C' - the OS drive .... and Public/Users/etc is on 'D' or &#39

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Users folder is on a 10kRPM hdd. Problem does not more occurs because public/documents points now to a ssd folder. But when it ocurred, skin images were on the 10kRPM hdd, and you will not make me believe it take 20-30 seconds to load them in shell. Something is not well managed by WB in an "undetermined" (for now) situation. Now, if Stardock don't want to investigate that, ok. I just spent time trying to report a problem and trying to indentify the context. [reading your posts, i

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You don't get it Jafo, I think there are so much posts with lot of details that the problem became confused (there is also my "english"problem...): On my desktop pc: 1 - puting pagefile on c: or on a hdd does not create problem with WB, win file explorer, or whatever else app. I run this way for years. As I read some stuff about this yesterday, I put it back to ssd because it seems to be harmless for ssd (but 1-2 years ago there was a lot of papers talking about this like

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Damn mabreedlove , you write a lot ! :) I was going to make some stuff you talk about on my laptop and then I boot/logon 6 times and impossible to reproduce the problem !!! ARRRRHHHH, I'm getting nuts. boot/logon is fast, something changed in the init sequence ... but I didn't touch my laptop since yesterday !! Autorun of m

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

my laptop does have a standard windows installation/configuration, just a usb mouse connected on it ...

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

[e digicons]O:)[/e] Well, it's just to advize about a very possible bug. Possibly most of the skins have similar "per pixel" and uis2 frames, so it's not easy to detect the problem. But, there is the problem of explorer lag ... well I don't know why nobody saw this. I can't believe I am the only one with 2 computers with the same wb/explorer symptoms [e digicons]:|[/e]

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I forgot an important detail ... I also installed WB on my laptop (with an i5 2nd generation and a 7.2Krpm hdd). I have 2 partitions on it but the 2nd one is just for data storage, not for system files like Users folder. If I logon without waiting for the end of activity disk (end of boot) then my skin is also not properly applyed (uis2 used instead of "per pixel") and file explorer is also very slow to start. If I wait the end of disk activity before logon then everything is

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Thank you guys for all these informations !

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Ok, solved. Well, half solved as I think WB needs an improvment: 1- I decided to move users\public\documents (on my hdd) to my ssd. I did that using the "move" function in the folder properties. 2- After restart, wb didn't follow the new link: only the default classic windows skin in the list. So I reinstalled WB and the skins list was back. 3- Applyed my skin ... reboot ... logon. The logon was fast, the skin was properly applyed, and file explorer starts like lig

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[quote who="Gaspershooters" reply="10" id="3397828"] This is contradictory what has been told by Neil. Since all of your image files/files are stored on HDD,then WB has nothing to do with SSD. Typically,majority of users don't allocate their settings in complexity as you did,I doubt you would see any improvement on WB's performance/experience. [/quote] I think there is a missunderstanding, probably due to my bad english :) I was just th

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some more informations: -Logon takes a while when the 2 problems occurs. When it's done quicly there are no problems. -After logon if I reapply the skin before doing anything, file explorer launch instantly ! So, again, my issue is linked with WB. -If I uncheck in folder options the "Launch folder windows in a separate process" option, the behavior is different: explorer.exe hangs less time nobody else see this stanges things ??

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[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="6" id="3397762"] On a skin apply WB will have to load many images from the hard drive. It also parses the skin file. If the WB4/WB64 files do not exist it will make them. These files are deleted on each skin edit. You could reapply skins in a loop for years and it wouldn't do much to your SSD life. Even if you zapped the WB4 files so they had to be remade each skin apply it would only result in a tiny amount o

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Hello @ mabreedlove : Users folder was moved during install with oobe and none of my applications have problems to access users folder (about 2 years using this way). Also, if it was an access problem, the issue will occurs at each boot-logon wich is not the case. I have a strange alert in my eventviewer "start session failed « Circular Kern

Reply to problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

small precision, just in case: my Users folder is not on my SSD, it's on a HDD, which include public documents where the WB skins are located.

problem at logon with bad skining and file explorer hangs in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Hi, Well, I was not sure but now I am as the problem occurs with a fresh win7 x64 install: - Sometimes (well, a lot of), after (first) logon right after boot, wb seems to miss something and my skin is not using "per pixel frame". Worst, if I try to open a folder with windows file explorer it hangs for about 20-30 seconds (same thing I I try to open the configuration panel). In that case, everything is ok after asking WB to skin again, or after a logout/login (wi