MAKE SURE YOU BACK UP YOUR SKINS BECAUSE MANY OF THE ONES DELETED ARE NOT IN THE LIBRARY! DAMMIT!

Can't believe I lost Acrylic......was one of my most used.........

http://www.guichamps.com/skins2006.asp?skinid=709

Yep: Acrylic, Aura and Vectorcell can't be downloaded, will they be added back in or do we need to uninstall WB6, install WB5, save skins in another folder, then uninstall 5 and reinstall 6.


Neil, that start menu transparency control does nothing in XP, the others, window frames, menus and titlebar all work fine. Is the start menu trans for Vista only?

It is the full responsibilty of any Obect Desktop user to archive their programs and for sure the skins or themes. I keep a seperate library of skins and themes on a seperate external hard drive with both regular and Acronis Home full backup of my partitions. With any beta program you run the risk of loosing data or lets say in this case skins.
As Neil stated the ones that where removed. Where those uninstalled with WB 5.5 and WB 6 did not include these skins. If you have a archive of your earlier version and that archive included the skins with it. Then you can uninstall WB 6 and reinstall from the archive to get your skins back. Then do a backup copy of your skins to a folder and reinstall WB 6. After it has been installed you can add your skins back to your Window Blinds folder in Stardock Object Desktop.

People need to consider that this a Beta version of WB 6. But with any install of any update for any program it is best to have a good backup of everything.

Good luck everyone...
I believe the Stardock Team has done a very fine job with this update. For sure they are still working just as hard to get whatever other problems and tweaks that are left to be done before the final release is ready.
I say "Congrats to them all!" and "Thank You!"

SGT  

Thanks ID; ya got a link to Aura?

Well I had some install issues on both XP and Vista. But usually I do not restart in between uninstall and install. That was the issue on XP, had to restart in order to install 6. On Vista, I had to uninstall 5, restart, install 6, restart, uninstall 6, restart, reinstall 6 and it is working just fine now. Also did some registry sweeps to clean up anything that was left over. But hey it works! Love how well it looks in XP!

Well done fellas, look forward to future builds and of course the final!

Some snaps of the menus & MDI buttons in WB6 along with SysInfo:





WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6 (6.0 (beta build 17 x86))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.

It appears you have enabled limited per pixel mode, so WindowBlinds will support per pixel, but with no hardware support.

(Default Monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 340M

Wblind.dll 2007/08/01 10:46:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/07/31 10:39:19
Wbconfig.exe 2007/08/01 15:27:45
Wbload.exe 2007/07/30 13:14:11
Wbhelp.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:07
Wbui.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:06
Tray.dll 2007/07/24 10:21:49

Anyone else had this problem yet? When I tried to install Windowblinds 6 beta it says I need to buy a new registration before I can try it. thanks james hayes

jhayes3: What tells you that you need to buy a new registration and what products do you have registered in SDC?

Really looking forward to seeing a completed blind from you.   

For some reason, my maximized titlebar is becoming transparent, and it is a bmp.

Something odd happend here during the installation:
- Launched SDC and updated it as requested.
- Ran the WB6 installation and also uninstalled WB5.5 as requested.
- The uninstallation of WB5.5 started..... and here comes the odd part:

SDC uninstalled Iconpackager as well!!!

And, no I didn't touch anything related to IP prior to started the WB6 installation.
"Oh well" I though "I'll just reinstall IP after rebooting"

So I rebooted, but when re-entering my desktop...... all my icons were still the same as before rebooting (as applyed by IP)
So I launched SDC again to see if IP was still listed as uninstalled - and bingo... it was!
So how was the icons-set still applied?!
Well... for some reason IP is still present on my system - and working perfectly.....

 

(I have a unrelated question regarding language settings in IP:
How do I make IP keep the language I select?!
Whenever I select English as language (I hate the Danish PC-language), IP changes it back to Danish on next bootup.)

One other thing I noticed after installing WB6:
In the Windowblind folder there are two new folders "skinstudio" and "two"

Remaining "left-overs" from coding or do they have a specific purpose?!

Otherwise the installation and everything else went smoothly!

Thanks for the link ID, you made my day

Considering the source, I must express my humble gratitude.

I've got a few sitting, waiting for some of these niggling details to get sorted out, and several in progress. I uploaded a suite of skins a couple of years ago - Crisp is the name if you're interested. They were updates of Jafo's BlindJAFO Trans3 skin from way way back. But I'm a little like you in that I hate publishing something I know has a glitch I can't get figured out.

I'll try not to disappoint once I have 'em ready.

two is the sidebar skin.
The SkinStudio folder seems to have a lot of SKS6 resources.