WindowBlinds 6 Beta Feedback

Published on August 1, 2007 By Neil Banfield In Stardock Support General

Please post all feedback about the WindowBlinds 6 beta on this thread.

Note that the beta is for 32 bit XP and Vista systems only. Please do not post about it not working on 64 bit XP/Vista. Please continue to use WB 5.51 on those platforms.

This beta is for Object Desktop customers ONLY. Standalone WindowBlinds 5 owners will not be able to activate this build.

Please note that you must have Stardock Central 2.46 Build 154 or later to install the WindowBlinds 6 betas. If you try and use older versions, it'll eventually timeout and give you an error about an invalid URL.

If you have problems with it running at all, please uninstall WB6, reboot and then try reinstalling WB6 again.

Comments (Page 29)

421

tosbsas

on Sep 19, 2007

Again, there might be good reasons for it, but every "decent" app asksyou before doing something like that. It started with update of wb5 to wb6 -I had a nice cute little folder for wb, but stardock installed - without asking - wb6 into an obscure update folder. This is not good -please stardocks, get us some options where to install the app

Ruben

422

vStyler

on Sep 19, 2007

I think the location of all this typical of the Vista standards.

423

Kevison

on Sep 20, 2007

I just updated to Windowblinds 6beta 5.92b.090 and have noticed some odd things with the configuration window.

1. unless Im blind no apparent EXIT link/button/etc...
2. when making changes the configuration UI blanks out and the hourglass runs... when I try to exit I get a ghost empty after effect of the dialog bog but the blank dialog box doesnt exit, it does minimize and then when it is restored the UI is back to normal and then I can exit out.

over all I like the latest build but the configuration UI is a bit odd in its behaviour.

Kevin

424

Neil Banfield

on Sep 20, 2007

You close wbconfig using the normal windows close button in the window titlebar.

When making changes the entire screen should blur and fade to greyscale while the skin is being applied.

425

Kevison

on Sep 20, 2007

My screen doesnt blur or fade thats the problem... im trying to upload an image of what it does but I cant seem to make it work

426

Beeswax

on Sep 20, 2007

Hey Stardock
I just Installed wb6b2 and now I can Not access Window Blinds from the Property Box. Is this a Bug? I can only access it from double clicking the Tray Icon. Can you explain why this is. Thanks

427

Lantec

on Sep 20, 2007

Couple items with todays update.

1. I had to turn off Auto Archive to get the installation to complete.

2. The Windowblinds button in Display Properties worked once and no longer. If I want to open the Configuration dialog I HAVE to use the Systray item menu.

3. ALL my Per Application settings disappeared. I had about 6 apps excluded and none are showing now.

428

extrabigmehdi

on Sep 20, 2007

hi,

I just Installed wb6b2 and now I can Not access Window Blinds from the Property Box. Is this a Bug? I can only access it from double clicking the Tray Icon.

Have a similar problem ....
But there's a good news : I see less rendering bugs ....
My theme display better ... I didn't notice dsignificant glitch yet.

429

DadBart

on Sep 21, 2007

Are the blank dialogs with apps like Outlook 2007 (Rules and Alerts) on Vista fixed yet in this build? This is the same problem that was fixed with the most recent build of 5.5. I have not seen any comment on my earlier posts about this bug returning in WB6. Thanks for your time.

430

Neil Banfield

on Sep 21, 2007

It should be

431

thebleedingedge

on Sep 21, 2007

Since updating to the latest build, my window size and location cache is continually being changed. The previous build had no effect on it. When I updated to the latest build, I had to disable archiving to get it to install. Now, I want to go back to the previous build and can't. Any ideas?

Also. Windowblinds is not accessible thru the display properties window.

432

tranle

on Sep 21, 2007

I have just installed this build: WB6 5.92[b].90 and it crashes winlogon and reboot my machine.

I am running on a on a Window2k3 server (Build 3790.srv03_sp2_gdr.070304-2240 : Service Pack 2). The previous WB6 was working fine for me.

433

DaveRI

on Sep 21, 2007

WinXPHome service pack 2-

After looking at the security permissions that came over in the WB folder, I'm wondering if you're trying to get WB6 to install on XP in such a manner that limited users can run the software without the Admin user having to modify the permissions. If so, it's not working, the exe file (and likely others, didn't look at a lot) still comes across without limited user read access.

If you're not trying to deal with the installed permissions then never mind.

434

Neil Banfield

on Sep 21, 2007

2003 server requires special handling and it looks like the file path changes have caused a problem on that OS.

435

Tursiops

on Sep 21, 2007

Ever since I got Microsoft Streets and Trips (2005, 2006, 2007), it has refused to work whenever I had WindowBlinds loaded. It said I needed to get more memory. The work-around was to close Windowblinds and live with Windows XP graphics. Then Streets and Trips would work fine.
A couple days ago I went from WB6 5.90 (?) to WB6 5.92[b].090. All of a sudden, I can load both WindowBlinds6 AND MS Street and Trips! I don't know what Stardock did last week, but ... THANKS FOR THE MEMORY!

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