WB5 and a hanging OS
but not with older, WB4 skins
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I get relatively frequent system hangs when using WB5 with those slick new per pixel skins (Dreamland, GT3, Copperdeck 2, etc.). If I switch back to an older skin (Tronnix?) everything seems to work great. Here are two examples.
1) With dreamland loaded, if I start PerfectDisk 8, the splash screen comes up and then switches to the main program window. The problem is, I can see the frame but it is completely transparent and the mouse goes into sleep mode and will move about, but can't click on anything. Cont-Alt-Delete is useless as is Alt-Tab. I have waited for as long as 5 minutes to see if something would happen, but nada. Hard power down is about the only solution. This happens everytime, but not with Tronnix.
2) If I open Theme Manager (Free) and click on Visual Styles, wham, the mouse goes into hibernation as above, and no response arrives to any keyboard input. I can click on all of the other tabs, but not Visual Styles.
There are numerous other little lock ups in response to seemingly innocent actions, clicking on a file in explorer, for instance.
Somehow, I think it might be graphics related (I only have problems with WB5 skins). I am running an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT which should be enough and is capable of per pixel display.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Are there some hardware/firmware tweaks I need to make?
Thanks for any suggestions.
1) With dreamland loaded, if I start PerfectDisk 8, the splash screen comes up and then switches to the main program window. The problem is, I can see the frame but it is completely transparent and the mouse goes into sleep mode and will move about, but can't click on anything. Cont-Alt-Delete is useless as is Alt-Tab. I have waited for as long as 5 minutes to see if something would happen, but nada. Hard power down is about the only solution. This happens everytime, but not with Tronnix.
2) If I open Theme Manager (Free) and click on Visual Styles, wham, the mouse goes into hibernation as above, and no response arrives to any keyboard input. I can click on all of the other tabs, but not Visual Styles.
There are numerous other little lock ups in response to seemingly innocent actions, clicking on a file in explorer, for instance.
Somehow, I think it might be graphics related (I only have problems with WB5 skins). I am running an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT which should be enough and is capable of per pixel display.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Are there some hardware/firmware tweaks I need to make?
Thanks for any suggestions.
