Problem with WindowBlinds

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Just had a major system crash and am having problems
getting windowblinds to work right....no matter what skin I apply the taskbar does not change...it stays white and skin is only partially applied.My video card is an ATI all in wonder 9200 series(Radeon based).Window blinds tells me my hardware wont support per pixel blending...?? I've had windowblinds 5 for a while now....never had a problem till this crash(Virus wiped out Master Boot Record).At one point while applying a skin a got message that partial per pixel support only would be enabled...have uninstalled/re-installed video card drivers and objectdesktop several times and still can't get windowblinds to work right...I can't figure out whats going on...
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Video Card Info:
Driver Packaging Version 8.252-060503a-038185C-ATI
CATALYST® Version 06.11
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6614
2D Driver File Path System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{BAC9A08C-9563-400B-ACA2-1EF943F3D921}\0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0399
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.5819
CATALYST® Control Center Version 1.2.2314.20337
AIW/VIVO WDM Driver Version 6.14.10.6246
AIW/VIVO WDM SP Driver Version 6.14.10.6246


Graphics Card Manufacturer Built by ATI
Graphics Chipset RADEON 9200 SERIES
Device ID 5961
Vendor 1002

Subsystem ID 2F72
Subsystem Vendor ID 1002

Bus Type AGP
Current Bus Setting AGP 4X

BIOS Version 008.017D.000.00
BIOS Part Number 113-A17611-100
BIOS Date 2003/11/26

Memory Size 128 MB
Memory Type DDR SGRAM / SDRAM

Core Clock in MHz 250 MHz
Memory Clock in MHz 200 MHz

Primary Display Yes
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Could you open the WindowBlinds Configuration screen and click on System Information. Copy/paste that screen here.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (build 91 x86))

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.

It appears you have enabled limited per pixel mode, so WindowBlinds will support per pixel, but with no hardware support.

(HP vs19 flat panel monitor) 1 is attached to RADEON 9200 SERIES

Wblind.dll 2007/02/14 17:15:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/02/07 17:31:19
Wbconfig.exe 2007/02/15 13:35:52
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 17:54:14
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:07
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2006/04/28 18:26:49
Wbload.dll 2005/01/22 18:05:07
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Raven2043: Open the WindowBlinds Configuration dialog, click on 'Override Default Settings'. Under the 'Skinning Settings' section, is the 'Ignore the taskbar and startmenu...' option checked?

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It looks like ATI changed something in the new drivers....installed the drivers that came with my card and fixed the problem....sucks that I cant update my drivers,looks like they changed something in their API....but thanks for the help...