Please Read this if your UI is black and painting slowly

Published on December 17, 2005 By Neil Banfield In WindowBlinds

If you have installed a pirate copy (AKA cracked) version of WindowBlinds 5, please be aware that the crack is faulty and WindowBlinds will cease to function correctly on your computer.

To fix this you just need to uninstall WB and if you wish install a purchased copy of WB, or the trial.

To uninstall, you can either wait for your computer to login, unload WB (either using wbconfig, display properties, or from a command prompt calling WBLOAD UNLOAD) and then uninstall WB. Or you can boot into safe mode & uninstall WB from there.

Your computer has not been harmed in anyway. Whoever made the crack did a poor job and patched out code that causes WindowBlinds to no longer be able to paint bitmaps (so title bars, borders, everything will be black).

Comments (Page 13)

181

Bichur

on Oct 09, 2006

and whether the time-bomb is sooner rather than later

would that not be 'later rather than sooner'?

182

the_binary_soul

on Oct 21, 2006

I dunno, I'm not entirely convinced that the crack is the only cause of this problem. I had this problem with the trial version for some skins.

183

Bichur

on Oct 21, 2006

I had this problem with the trial version for some skins.

how long?
did it work fine at all? how long?
when did it start acting up? how long has it been doing that?

maybe a file borked: open WB configuration, click system info on the left and copy/paste to here all the shows up (or start a different post with that info)

184

amfern

on Dec 01, 2006

ther will be a working crack..some day and then we shell rise again.
but mean time,good work dudes.

185

Jafo

on Dec 01, 2006

ther will be a working crack..some day and then we shell rise again.
but mean time,good work dudes.

Great...the newest member [of 2.63 million] can't spell and wants a crack for WB.

You're in the wrong place for TWO reasons then..... Spell checker

on Dec 01, 2006

on Dec 04, 2006

I've seen the "crack" in action in a computer (Celeron 2.0Ghz, 256Mb RAM, Radeon 9600 Pro, XP Professional SP2 v5.1.2600.rtm.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) and any of the problems refered above occured!
When I tried the sofware on my machine (Pentium 2.0Ghz, 768Mb RAM, Radeon X700, XP Professional SP2 v5.1.2600.rtm.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) all windows turned black and the sistem hangs too much to simply open a window!
[Sorry for bad English]

188

Bichur

on Dec 04, 2006

short version:

I've seen the "crack" in action...

...the problems refered above occured!...

...all windows turned black and the sistem hangs too much to simply open a window!

189

kokodak

on Feb 20, 2007

what You write isn't really right, I have buy my WB Software correctly on Stardock's Sale-Site over the Link, they send to me with E-Mail, after I had pay.
The Problems with WB are such so as You wrote.
My Machine hangs up every time I try to load a Skin over WB, than it's all Black and I must kill machine to boot into safe Mode for unload WB.
WB does not work properly....
A whole day long I Install and uninstall WB, load down the Software new and new, but nothings happend better.
Or do You think they gave me a Crack?
Allright overthink what You write down there!

190

Jafo

on Feb 20, 2007

kokodak ....from your post I am assuming English is not your first language....perhaps German?

If so, perhaps a German-speaker will be able to assist you...as language barriers/errors may arise....

191

Neil Banfield

on Feb 20, 2007

What I wrote is 100% correct.

Please create a new thread & post your System Information from WBconfig.

192

Nimbin

on Aug 28, 2007

i have a broken crack too, it hurts when i sit down and go to the toilet. it must have been that dodgy vindaloo i ate for dinner last night......ooooooh you mean the other cracks, sorry my bad. anyway for all the users of cracked copies, you dont pay..welll you pay eventually, in time lost on fixing broken systems so do yourselves a favour and fork out the 20 bucks for the legal copy. it's not exactly expensive and you do get a first class piece of "working" software that is a pleasure to use

193

Bichur

on Aug 28, 2007

somehow I just don't find reviving an old thread just to tell us your butt hurts to be newsworthy...

194

Nimbin

on Aug 28, 2007

oh well bichur, i am sure you';ll survive

195

Bichur

on Aug 28, 2007

and yes, I saw the earlier posts but couldn't see the pics since I was at work

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