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 5)

Wizard1956

on Apr 20, 2008

I just ran the update 6.09g.137 for WB6, showing in SDC and Impulse, through SDC. The result..wiped out WB6. I had to do a system restore to get it back. I unchecked pre-release on SDC but not Impulse,but wanted to try the beta anyway. Everything works now,but the update contained my missing explorer backgrounds. Those sure would be nice to have back.Please help. [Edit: just updated through Impulse, everything works,case closed]

PurrBall

on Apr 21, 2008

Menus look like crap in FF3:

MKANET

on Apr 29, 2008

This may sound like a really dumb question, but how can I get access to the latest WB 6.1 build and SKS?

eieio

on Apr 29, 2008

This may sound like a really dumb question, but how can I get access to the latest WB 6.1 build and SKS?

Impulse

PurrBall

on May 04, 2008

Thanks for fixing that Firefox menus bug, Neil.

Here's another one for ya:

The left border of the location bar is white. Started on the FF3 build that was released on the 25th and is fine in Aero.

511b

on Jun 11, 2008

In a preemptive effort here are my WB6 info stats cause I know someone will ask.

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 55 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT
(Plug and Play Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT

Wblind.dll 2008/05/06 15:25:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:10
Wbconfig.exe 2008/04/29 21:02:32
Wbload.exe 2008/04/28 11:35:14
Wbhelp.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:07
Wbui.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:05
Tray.dll 2008/04/28 11:35:21
Screen.exe 2008/04/28 11:35:18

I am running XP and basically what happens is if you right click in the Title bar the title bar disappears for a few seconds and then reappears with no access to the standard right click in the title bar menu. I have stuff setup now for per pixel skinning so that everything that can be made transparent is. I also have a pink titlebar when I move around the WB configuration box. Any help Would be great, as usual.

ZubaZ

on Jun 11, 2008

What skin? (or all)
And in the WB config, what is teh setting for right clcking on the title bar? (Settings | Override Default Settings | Titlebar settings)

511b

on Jun 11, 2008

All skins and as a correction it is the menu bar down at the bottom if I do it twice in a row it goes to the active desktop recovery white screen

511b

on Jun 11, 2008

I looked at task manager while duplicating this right click in the start bar and it actually kills the explorer.ex process and restarts it.

Neil Banfield

on Jun 12, 2008

511b: Do you have nvidia nview running?

If so can you try disabling it please.

511b

on Jun 12, 2008

I disabled nview and now it works fine do you have any idea as to what in nview is causing the problem? or is it just nview in general

tiomio

on Jun 13, 2008

The Zbthumbnail.info file is from my canon camera's picture browser, I deleted it and it made no difference. That file is only present in folders containing pictures I uploaded from my camera, and this problem seems to happen randomly in other places as well. So I do not think that's the cause.

MindTooth

on Jun 15, 2008

Isn't WindowBlinds 6.1 released? If so, maybe it is time to unstick and close this thread.

Birger

DigitalCHET

on Jun 15, 2008

If I enable the thumbnails view in explorer and I apply an explorer background in XP, there is always one or two thumbnails that seem to be behind the background image. See the screen shot. This also happens to folders when in thumbnail view. Has anyone experienced this or found a way to prevent that from happening? The Zbthumbnail.info file is from my canon camera's picture browser, I deleted it and it made no difference. That file is only present in folders containing pictures I uploaded from my camera, and this problem seems to happen randomly in other places as well. So I do not think that's the cause.

Do you have Picasa installed? I think it might be doing something funky. I get the same thing on mine.
It's not that the thumbnail it's hiding behind the background, as much as that it's being made somewhat transparent by the system. Usually this is the system's way of letting you know that the file is marked as hidden when you have View hidden files enabled in Explorer.

I'm still not 100% sure on what causes this but I'm Picasa is my prime suspect.

tiomio

on Jun 16, 2008

Thanks Chet, I'll check that out.

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