Diane...it's not the SD tray...it's the WC tray. You should have both in your system tray. If you do then continue on.....

Open SDC and un-install WC Browser and the WC tray (if you do have it installed). Delete folders: C:\Program Files\WinCustomize\SkinBrowser and C:\Program Files\WinCustomize\Tray and C:\Program Files\Stardock\WinCustomize\SkinBrowser. If, by chance, you have two instances of any of those folders (I think you installed both from SDC and the site version, so you may have more then one) then Delete those too. Re-boot. Open SDC and install both WC browser and WC tray and if prompted to do so, then re-boot....in either case let WC Browser update the libraries (it will appear when you click on Skins & Themes that nothing is happening, but it is, so give it a couple of minutes. When it's done you will see the # of new skins to the right of each library.

....now try SDC and see what it does...

Gary, I finally got the opportunity to uninstall the browser and tray, and reinstall, etc. It seems to work great right now. I'm just hoping it stays that way. Yet again, thanks.

One more thing..... I get a new message now when I open SDC. "Please make sure that you are launching Stardock Central from a shortcut to loader.exe rather than sdcentral.exe". I click OK, and SDC loads up. I don't know what this is about, but it seems to work anyway.

Knock on wood, but everything should work from here on in....


The prompt is for any shortcuts you may have created to open SDC....change the shortcut path to: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\Loader.exe

Screwed up again All I did was update a few programs through SDC that appeared last night. Now, I cannot access the message boards, as it causes the entire program to just shut down. I'm writing this through the WC Browser. Also, the skins library is all screwed up again. I'm going to do the uninstall reboot, install, reboot thang again, but this is getting ridiculous. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?

Dabe (who is really frustrated)

Diane - something is wrong with your set-up...just not sure what it is. Mine, no matter what I do, works flawlessly. One thing you have to remember, as I said before, is do not update the Libraries using the SDC Tool Settings...both WC Browser and SDC auto update the skins when you click on Skins and Libraries. Again, it takes a minute or so to do it (Broadband) and it doesn't appear to be doing anything (re:updating skins), but it is.

A couple of questions:

Do you use IE as your default web browser?
Do you have a Firewall, cookie killer or pop up stopper installed...if yes..who's?
You should only have two Stardock folders containing all your apps...are these the only two you have (any will be in the Program Files Folder)?:
#1 C:\Program Files\Stardock
#2 C:\Program Files\WinCustomize

Finally, is the SDC version installed: 1.30.264 built 46 and the WC Browser version: 1.29c(b).003 ?

Un-installing and re-installing, at this point, is a waste of time, so refrain from doing it until we figure out what's going on.

Hi there,

Thought i better chip in here. After weeks now of trying to figure out what causes this i have finally managed to find it and fix the problem... i think The problem relates to when you use both the skins/themes and the discussion sections within sdc. When both try and update at the same time, they currupt each others files when writing data.

There should be an update to fix the problem going up pretty soon, but for now if you want to get round the problem try just sticking to using one section at a time. If your going to use the skins and themes section, then dont click on the discussion section while your within SDC.

Brian 

Thanks Brian and Gary. I just got back to the discussions group after about a week of not being here, because of SDC problems. Frankly, I didn't have the time to do much about it till tonight. Anyway, I had finally got the skins and themes to work well, but then the discussions went bonkers. Every time I tried to open it, the program would shut down. Right now, after the , reboot, reinstall routine, things are working well. I will not open skins until I'm sure the discussions are done updating (whatever that means).

If you are using SDC build47 it should be ok to use both sections again. The bug has finally been fixed.

Brian

Yippie!!!!! Hurrayyy!!! The wicked wit....er bug is dead!. Thank you, Brian. I'm using Build 47.

Dont forget to thank yrag for walking you through this too

Brian

I have thanked Gary SOOOOOOO many times. He's walked me through this SOOOOOOOO many times. But, what the hell....

THANK YOU, GARY!!!!!!