Molton skin troubles

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Hi,

Is anyone familiar with the WindowBlinds skin called Molten. It used to be one of the included skins in WindowBlinds but now it is only available at the link above. Are you or were you having trouble with it? For some reason  when I click all Programs and move my cursor up to click on a shortcut the whole start menu goes blank. Have you found or created a fix? Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

Joe

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Probably a problem with it and Win7. Hasn't been updated in a long time. Alternative explanation might be  your drivers or WB installation or maybe interfering software, like uxtheme.dll if you have it.

If no other skin is affected, then it's a Molten skin specific problem.

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have the latest drivers from the manufacturer and never had trouble with them. All are installed properly with no errors in DXdiag. Dunno what uxtheme.dll is so I doubt I have it installed. Tuneup Utilities, which I recently installed has a service called Theme Enhancer but I turned that off and set it to manual and it's not running. Maybe there is something to that that is loading. I will try uninstalling it and see if that helps. Otherwise you are most likely right and it's a skin problem. That's why I was hoping someone else was using it and maybe had a fixed version.

 

Joe

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Uxtheme.dll is a patch that some people use to hack their systems in order to apply visual styles that aren't made the same way as windowblinds, which does not hack your system files.

 

Molten is an XP skin and does similar things for me on Win 7 64 bit.

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok, so no one else has been able to find the fixed version or fixed it themselves? I've seen the fixed version in various suites on Wincustomize but no one will tell me how to get it.

 

Joe

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I am sorry, I don't know what you mean by "fixed" version. To my knowledge, there is only one version. For XP.

Dragon may be for Vista too, dunno. But I'm certain Molten is XP only.

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting joelore, reply 4
Ok, so no one else has been able to find the fixed version or fixed it themselves? I've seen the fixed version in various suites on Wincustomize but no one will tell me how to get it.

 

Joe
End of joelore's quote
If someone "fixed" it themselves, they wouldn't be allowed to distribute it without Stardock's express consent.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting RedneckDude, reply 6
I've seen the fixed version in various suites on Wincustomize but no one will tell me how to get it.
End of RedneckDude's quote

 

get the suite and unzip it

 

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Bichur, reply 7



Quoting RedneckDude,
reply 6
I've seen the fixed version in various suites on Wincustomize but no one will tell me how to get it.



 

get the suite and unzip it

 
End of Bichur's quote

I see no suite for Molten.

Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Molten is a "Stardock Designs" skin ( https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/windowblinds/6568/ ), not a suite.

"The Molten skin with animated start menu, animated title bar and a hot design has support for XP and Vista. 

Designed by Stardock Design Molten helps demonstrate the how WindowBlinds can transform your user experience. 
With its animations and complete skinning support of both XP and Vista Molten flows onto your desktop."
The trouble stems from your using Windows 7 and the skin being supported for XP and Vista.
 
 
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting DrJBHL, reply 9
Molten is a "Stardock Designs" skin not a suite.
End of DrJBHL's quote

 

was going by

 

Quoting joelore, reply 4
Ok, so no one else has been able to find the fixed version or fixed it themselves? I've seen the fixed version in various suites on Wincustomize but no one will tell me how to get it.

 

Joe
End of joelore's quote

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

There is a suite for Dragon, perhaps Joe is getting them confused.Thy do look very similar.

Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Drats! Double posted.:blush:

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 11
There is a suite for Dragon, perhaps Joe is getting them confused.Thy do look very similar.
End of Wizard1956's quote

 

Probably. I searched for any themes named DRAGON and came up with a bunch but Molton was seperate, I had to search for Molten exclusively and forgot it was made for XP. Still has the problem but I can live with it. I did get them confused sorry, I get so obbsessed with downloading new themes..... whew

 

 

Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting joelore, reply 13
I get so obbsessed with downloading new themes..... whew
End of joelore's quote
Looking at your site, I see you have only downloaded 290mbs since 2004. What are you waiting for?....Get in the galleries and wear that download button out, lol. ;)

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top

For some reason Molton has been working fine for a while now

 

Joe

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Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting joelore, reply 13
I get so obbsessed with downloading new themes..... whew
End of joelore's quote

Quoting Wizard1956, reply 14
Looking at your site, I see you have only downloaded 290mbs since 2004. What are you waiting for?....Get in the galleries and wear that download button out, lol.
End of Wizard1956's quote

that's it just 290MB that not being obbsessed with downloading new themes

:grin: :grin:

 

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