WindowBlinds 6.1 beta thread

Published on February 14, 2008 By Neil Banfield In Stardock Support General

Please post feedback on the beta release here.

Release notes:

WB 6.09.113 beta
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Vista
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Added Explorer backgrounds feature - Users can change the background of their Explorer windows, as well as the background color and opacity.
Added 30 different background textures including no texture, wet paint, various marbles, and ice effects.
Added support for 3 additional titlebar buttons on per pixel skins. These support rollup, help, always on top and command buttons.
Added Support for dialog background bitmaps - this was disabled on Vista in previous builds.
Added additional glass explorer sections. These will show up in future.
64 bit build synced with 32 bit version.
Misc tweaks.

XP
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Added Support for 3 additional titlebar buttons on per pixel skins. These support rollup, help, always on top and command buttons.
Blue edge on logoff dialog cancel button removed
Tweaks to dialog background bitmaps
Misc tweaks

Note that the 64 bit XP build has not been updated for this beta build. For the 6.1 release, 32 bit apps on 64 bit XP would support the new per pixel buttons, but 64 bit apps will not.

Skinstudio 6 Pro 5.97.[b].017 in SDC supports the new sections.

Comments (Page 3)

Neil Banfield

on Feb 16, 2008

RottGutt: Do you have any additional information on the crash such as a crash address? It sounds like something that has loaded into explorer has conflicted with WindowBlinds.

PurrBall

on Feb 16, 2008

Astyanax, mine is skinned.

on Feb 16, 2008

in windowblinds configuration/settings/"If a skin has a replacement user icon then replace the current user icon with the skin supplied icon" RADIO button stays checked/enabled , i cannot uncheck it.i have object desktop

Astyanax

on Feb 16, 2008

Astyanax, mine is skinned.

It's quite wierd, that isnt skinned for me, and also the address bar gets larger if the titlebar height for the bmp frame is above 23 pixels, yet I talked to a guy on dA that didnt have this issue. What could be causing this?!
Perhaps I need to install WB through and executable rather than SDC? I really don't get this..WB hates something in my PC and it's really ruining it for me.

Excalpius

on Feb 16, 2008

"Added additional glass explorer sections. These will show up in future. "

Must have future now.

ALMonty

on Feb 16, 2008

Astyanax mine are skinned also. Vista Ultimate 32 bit

I had a problem changing skins I went from Sirus to Tanipal. It looked like it going to change and it went back to Sirus. I restarted my CPU and Tanipal was skinned. Now I notice when I change skins it takes a long time. Compared to the last update that took half as long.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.2
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.2

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 84 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(HP w2408 Wide LCD Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1650 Series

Wblind.dll 2008/02/15 17:39:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/02/13 16:15:29
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/15 17:39:42
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 10:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 16:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/11/04 17:50:28
Screen.exe 2008/01/11 12:14:18

pmulcahy11b

on Feb 16, 2008

Two things I have noticed since the last WB update applied last night are that the skins take only about half the time for WB to apply them, and the flaky excuses for Vista drivers ATI has been handing out haven't crashed since then. (However, on the second count, I'm sure it will only take a bit of time for ATI's flakeware to crash again...).

However, a few screwy things -- I can change the Windows Explorer backgrounds -- but they only stay changed when the windows are made smaller with the "Restore" (i.e., the middle window button between Minimize and Close). Maximize Explorer window backgrounds will not retain the skin (though if I hit the middle button again, the background comes right back again).

If I have the WindowBlinds configuration applet open, the Windows Taskbar will pop up and down about every 5 seconds, and also pop up when the applet closes for a second or two.

I had the WB option "If a Skin has a replacement user icon..." unchecked, but the updated checked it for me, and I can't uncheck it.

Astyanax

on Feb 16, 2008

Astyanax mine are skinned also. Vista Ultimate 32 bit

I'm using 64 bit, you both as well? (PurrBall & ALMonty) I should mention that it's skinned in Vista x86, so it may be a x64 issue.
WB Info:
Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 84 x86 - Vista Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Dell E207WFP) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 3870

Wblind.dll 2008/02/15 17:39:20
Wblind64.dll 2008/02/15 17:39:41
Wbsrv.dll 2008/02/13 16:15:22
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/15 17:39:42
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/26 11:53:28
Screen.exe 2008/02/13 16:15:18

ALMonty

on Feb 16, 2008

Astyanax some of your dates (the last 3) are different then mine. I don't know if it's because you are useing a 64bit version or not. Or if it matters.

MadDeez

on Feb 16, 2008

my info matches up with astyanax's.

ALMonty

on Feb 16, 2008

This is my laptop and one date is different then my other machine. They were both updated at the same time.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.3

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 84 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA MCP67M

Wblind.dll 2008/02/15 17:39:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/02/13 16:15:29
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/15 17:39:42
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:28
Screen.exe 2008/01/11 12:14:18

Leo the Lion

on Feb 17, 2008

Neil, I think this has been reported before but sometimes when you click a condensed picture on certain websites to see the full image the title bar at the top of the newly opened window is missing. In fact, it's there but invisible because if you put your mouse in the area where the buttons should be showing you will find them. Just you can't see them or the title bar.

Here is an example. If you go to this WWW Link and click the image where it says attached image in the post you'll see what I mean.

Running the latest beta version on XP SP2 with IE7. If there is any other info that I can provide or help with, please don't hesitate to ask.

JMSpeakman

on Feb 17, 2008

I don't know if it's got anything to do with the changes but on my older blinds i git a white on white fonts on web pages. My start menues are narrower than the Previews on full start. It cuts off on the right. It seems I need a step by step too.

bobbyhundreds

on Feb 17, 2008

Hi,
This has probably already been mentioned so soz if it has.
When I use WB to apply the default Windows Aero skin then unload WB by right clicking it in the system tray and selecting unload,the WBVista.exe is still showing as running in my task manager,even after a reboot.
Not much of a problem as I pretty much always have a blind loaded

but I was just curious as to how,if I wanted to,I could stop WBVista.exe from loading at startup even when it has been unloaded.
My info...
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(HP L2045w Wide LCD Monitor) 1 is attached to Radeon X1650 SE

Wblind.dll 2008/02/15 17:39:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/02/13 16:15:29
Wbconfig.exe 2008/02/15 17:39:42
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:28
Screen.exe 2008/01/11 12:14:18

bobbyhundreds

on Feb 18, 2008

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