WB Skin Issue!!

Wb does not skin the task bar or start menu only.

Published on July 17, 2006 By Modern FX In Stardock Support General

Hello,

I am having an issue with Windowblinds. For some strange reason WB is not skining the Task Bar ro Start menu but everything else works just fine. I have tried restarting serveral times and uninstall and reinstall but still nothing. I am using WB 4.2 Enhanced. Below is my system configuration:

ASUS A8N32-SLI - Motherboard
AMD64 X2 4400+ - Processor
2GB Cosair Memory
nVidia Geforce 7900GT
Dual Dell 2005FPW - Monitors

I beleive that is all that is relevant. I think.

I appreciate anyone's help.

Thank you

Comments

ZubaZ

on Jul 17, 2006

WB trial or the paid version?

Modern FX

on Jul 17, 2006

4.2 Enhanced means Paid version.

SKoriginals

on Jul 17, 2006

Check your settings in 'Basic Settings' to make sure those things are checked off to be skinned. If not that then it is something else... unsure what it might be atm. You might also want to update your windowblinds version to at least 4.5 if not 5.

Modern FX

on Jul 17, 2006

Thanks for you suggestions. I have tried and everything seems ok. All items are checked .

I really do not want to upgrade right now. There should be no reason as to why it is not working now because it was working before. I will continue to look around the settings as suggested.

Thanks again.

Lantec

on Jul 17, 2006

There should be no reason as to why it is not working now because it was working before.

This usually means you've got a conflict with some new program or hardware that you installed after Windowblinds.

You didn't mention if it was all wba's or just a particular one but I assume it's all. If not it's also possible your trying to use a blind that's not compatible with your version of Windowblinds.

Neil Banfield

on Jul 17, 2006

It sounds like XP SP2 has been installed. The DEP feature (when used with a supporting processor) can cause problems like this.

Please install WB 4.6 (which is free to all registered WB4 customers)

The other possibility is you have told WB to use a different (and missing) skin for the taskbar. This is set on the User Overrides page.

Modern FX

on Jul 17, 2006

Thank you for everyones help so far.

I may be overlooking it but I have looked all over this site and stardock and cannot find WB 4.6 download anywhere. I did a search and nothing came up. Does anyone have a link to it? or can someone from Stardock contact me? I am a paid user and would like to receive this update to see if this resolves my issue. Thank You.

Hankers

on Jul 17, 2006

I would try installing Stardock Central and completing the registration that you initially used and then WB 4.6 will be available for downloading. Use this link to get Stardock Central:

https://www.stardock.com/sdnet_login.asp

Hope this helps you out.

Modern FX

on Jul 18, 2006

Thank you, Neil Banfield for suggesting the upgrade it must have been an SP2 issue. Thanks!

Thank you, Hankers for providing the information that uttimately allowed me to download and install the upgrade. Many thanks!

Thank you everyone else who bothered to read and post your comments and suggestions.

Modern FX

on Jul 18, 2006

Opps!

All is well now.

Bichur

on Jul 18, 2006

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