Well I personaly find it idiotic to crack a reasonably priced software that you use everyday (such as Object desktop) and have the guts to ask for support at the official forum

I paid my sub you decided i was not legal due to a file sharing site..

Oh dont you trust your members?

By [URL=http://profile.imageshack.us/user/kieran5]kieran5[/URL] at 2007-09-19

^Huh?

BMW CHUBB was caught sharing files in warez sites. His account was exiled since then. Now he is trying demonstrate how good he is and doing all dirty things in his own site or warez sites.

He call earn the money hads he not doing thing so bluntly. Now he have to pay he wants.

Windowblinds cost me $20. That's cheap for how nice it makes my system look - the best money I've spent on system software. And wincustomize.com's community of people-who-share further enhances it's value. Come on people just buy it! Neil deserves his fair share of your purchase price. If you steal WindowBlinds you're stealing from him personally! It's not just a faceless corporation - he has to put food on his table and if he can't do that as a programmer then he'll have to find other work which means: no more WindowBlinds. In short: if you use it, buy it.

Signed,
A happy Stardock customer.

Hey guys.

My name is Brendan, im 17 years old
This thread has been a real eye-opener for me.
Like many others, i first downloaded the trial version
and i quite liked it.
Ashamably, like many applications, i searched on torrent websites for a cracked version.
I found one, but like most people found that it was corrupted.
With guilt i unintalled it, and in no way blamed the application itself.
How can a user trust software from a hacker?

After reading this thread, (which thankfully diagnosed the problem for me) I am filled with guilt and am going to ask my dad for permission tomorrow to buy this program.
Also, i have stopped downloading Mp3s choosing to buy the album like i should, because if no one gets payed for these services, how can we expect them to keep distributing it.

Thankyou Niel,
i shall contribute to your well earned salary

Welcome

Bassboy, thanks for your post.  We welcome you.

I paid for my copy. I downloaded it from Stardock Central (which is a pain; I could have just downloaded a single EXE and installed the whole suite much easier), and some of the other programs work fine, but WindowBlinds comes up with a back background and I can't do anything with it. Also, after installing Object Desktop, i get a Spooler.exe error everytime I boot my computer, and two more after I log in.

Darthcola,
I'd suggest starting a new thread. This thread had to do with cracked versions that were messing up peoples computers quite a while back.

When you post go to the Windowblinds Configuration panel and click on the System Info Tab, Copy Test and paste that into your post. You also might want to mention any other "customization" type software you are or have used.

Well, I guess I'll toss in my 2 cents....lol.
First off, that patch all of you are fervently attempting to diagnose actually disables communications to Stardock on the rig, and creates ID files to match the version of blinds. It also creates a mock activation file so it can be used without the code. That's all the crack does. It doesn't modify blinds itself in any way. secondly, I've actually used a cracked version for the sole purpose of comparing the cracked to the legit purchased version. I found that the cracked version ran just as smooth as the purchased. I now have a nice legit purchased version of 6 too and long since deleted the cracked because I personally think Stardock deserves every penny they ask for.
There WAS what was called a "black blinds crack" that did make blinds useless, but it got repaired and re-released. It was about as nasty as you can get too. It would not only disable skinning through blinds, but it also pegged sys resources to a whopping 90 to 99% usage.....lol.

In this I do have a question though. Is it possible to backup your current purchased version of blinds installed from SDC updating? Years ago I had purchased Object Desktop 2004 and lost everything due to a format, and my subscription running out. As a consequence, my purchased CD is useless. Since the subscription is more than the cost of what I really want, I chose to re-purchase blinds6. I'm currently up to date with SDC live updates, and would like to know if there's a way to avoid losing the most current version I have installed without panic attacks and severe depression...lol. Personally I think blinds and SKS is well worth the cash, but I don't wanna have to resort to re-purchasing it should things go awry again.
I know some of you are thinking, "well duuuuhh, why not just resubscribe?" Though that's obviously the desirable approach, not everyone has the 35 or so beans to blow right away....lol.
Lastly, [quote]It was simply an XP patch that interfered with WBs ability to skin windows.. not a faulty crack.


I personally have experienced issues with blinds vs. windows updates. Upon installing a new XPservicepack 2 update and framework2.0 Blinds went nuts. It was resizing just about everything. the most noticeable was the 16x16 systray icons being oversized to 24x24. It was so horrible I had to do a restore to correct the issue. After that, I disabled auto updates and refused to update at all. I was also using an ooooold purchased copy of Obj Desktop 2004, but it ran smooth as silk up to that point.

You know, I've had this problem a couple times, and I purchased my version. It always is fixed by a restart though.

yup, that's all that would fix it though, which is kind of a pain if it happens often, which in my case it did.Oddly though, I'm having even more issues with blinds6 vs. Vista. I won't bring them up here since this is for cracked blinds usage. I still love Stardock, and probably would crawl into a hole and die if I couldn't use it. Thankfully the world has been graced with pure genius and I now can use it on Vista...lol. The main concern for me was, I thought it was a corruption in the skin I developed and not some quirk in XP. Franky, it scared the H.E. double hockey sticks outa me because I thought I was gonna have to rebuild the entire skin from scratch.....lol.

that would be- opens sdc, right click on WB - choose archive

Oh man, you rule Bichur Thank you! you've saved me countless nights of sleep deprivation over this. I can't wait til SKS is purchasable I'm soooooo gonna buy it instaed of the free one.