WindowBlinds 5.5 Effect is gone after restart (Win XP 64bit, Win 2k3 32BIT SP1)

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Dear all, I wonder if one of you had a same experience like me,I install WB 5.5 on Windows XP 64 bit and Windows Server 2K3 SP1,the installation goes smooth as well as the configuration,and the machine says that WB 5.5 has been installed correctly and activated as well.So after I reboot the system and login back,WB setting/effect did not work or it returns tge defaul setup to normal (Windows XP themes or classic).What's going on here ?Any help would be greatly appreciated,Cheers
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Could you post the System Information from the WB config window?
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Dear Bebi Bulma, Here's the WB Config WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 5 (5.5 (build 94 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.

() 1 is attached to VM Additions S3 Trio32/64

Wblind.dll 2007/03/13 10:50:20
Wbsrv.dll 2007/03/13 10:57:52
Wbconfig.exe 2007/03/13 10:16:17
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

Elemental: Reforged
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I also have same configuration on win xp 64 and even using separate Graphic Card (ATI Radeon X1300) and got the same problem .