WindowsBlinds 7 bug

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Looked at WindowsBlinds 7 on my desktop, and it looks great :). I noticed that it had a fluid layout, which I thought would be a big plus on my netbook, so I decided to try it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work so well on my netbook :(. Most of the screen is black.

  • None of the background graphics are showing.
  • The "glow" graphic seems to be replaced by the preview.
  • The preview doesn't always update.
  • The ratings and search box are completely gone.
  • Windows XP/Classic previews do not appear atall.
  • Similar things happen in other tabs.

Using an Aspire One netbook with Windows XP. Atom CPU, 1 gig RAM, Intel 945 Express video, DirectX 9.0c.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

CobraA1 I would not use WB7 on that netbook. Would work a lot better with 6. B)

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Can you provide a screenshot?  It sounds like the UI folder off shared documents\windowblinds is missing.  I would reinstall it.

Shelbygt: WindowBlinds 7 is designed to be more suitable for those low end machines than 6.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Sure, not a problem:

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It sounds like the UI folder off shared documents\windowblinds is missing.
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Wouldn't be surprised. I've been having some permissions issues recently. Had to boot into safe mode to remove old files from Adobe Flash recently. I'll reinstall WB7 and look for that folder.

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

You're definitely on the right track. I compared Vista and XP, and yup files were missing. These are the files I saw in XP:

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Interesting to note was that this folder and files existed even after I had uninstalled WB7 the first time. I'm gonna reboot to safe mode and check permissions. Sigh, I hate how Home editions of XP force you to reboot to change NTFS permissions :(.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

. . . and OH GRR. It wasn't the file permissions. It was Comodo's antivirus. Congratualations, Stardock's installer is "Heur.Suspicious@30384401," and was blocked without warning.

That's with the heuristics in Comodo at a low setting.

Didn't happen on my desktop because I use AVG there.

Time to file a false positive report with Comodo . . .