Instead of restarting each time try clicking on Apply Skin a second time. That happens from time to time even before the update.

Just installed your update and all looks good!

It's working fine on the husband's Win 7 Home Premium 64-bit machine and since he writes, Office 2010 (Or Word, rather) hasn't given him any headaches.

Rent?

When you purchase any apps you can keep on using it for as long as you like.  If you went with an ObjectDesktop subscription then you cannot update to things released after your subscription expired, but as long as you kept the installer from the builds you have you can reinstall it if you need to.

The EULA uses that term.  I think that's what Jinks was referring to.

That's wrong Neil because if apps have been installed with Impulse (and most of them should have been), even if OD subscrition is renewed, Impulse is no more taking it and though no .impulse archives can be reinstalled

I's really a MAJOR problem that should be resolved very quickly by Stardock team ...

My understanding is Impulse should still reinstall existing .Impulse archive files even if your OD sub is expired.

If you mean you cannot download future things from Impulse after the renewal that is intentional and will not change.  The databases split and so the Impulse database has no idea you renewed.

Nope and that's the MAJOR problem !!! As soon as the 2011 account is expired (even if OD is renewed for 2012 - in my case till september 2012) Impulse don't let you do ANYTHING, neither update any app and neither reinstall existing .impulse archieve files

Your understanding id effectively incorrect: my OD subscription is still active (till september 2012 - renewed august 31 2011 because it was ending september /09/2011) but not for Impulse for which it's telling me it's over and that I have to renew it and though i just can't do anything with Impulse ...  

You'll see what will happen with your's when your 2011 subscription period will be ending ...

I downloaded the WIndowblinds update from the STardock Store last night and installed it. I rebooted my machine. Ver sadly, for the first time ever, I am having issues.

I go a black screen on reboot with this pop-up....

WerFault.exe

The instruction at 0x6602b400 reference memory at 0x00000000. The memory could not be read.

When I close it I get pop-ups for half a dozen programs all with the same message. I tried a system restore but none of the dates available will work. It tells me it cannot locate C://Windows.

I don't know if this is from the update or not, but my computer is pretty much fried.

The Desktop Window Manager stops working. I tired to download/use several of the WIndows trouble shooters but there is always an error and it can't run.

Running Windows 7

I get messages like this when I open stuff...

The thread attempted to read from or write to a virtual address for which it does not have the appropriate access

Critical Error:
CCleaner    v3.11.1550
MS Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit SP1
AMD Athlon 7550 Dual-Core Processor
3.0GB RAM
ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series

UNtil I know what the cause is I don't know that I will be downloading anything from Stardock, once I figure out the issue or have to do a complete reinstall of WIndows. I'm not saying the product is bad, but I never had these issues when updating from Impulse or the previous source for updates. You guys need to make it clear (unless I missed it) exactly where we are to get the updates from. I see folks using the store and Impulse. I don't know (if it is the new WB version) if I would have been better off using Impulse or not. I know it's all kind of up in the air and in transition. If the WB update is what caused these issues, you should hold off on any more updates until you have a replacement for Impulse that's been tested and all.

bTW

Can't do updates through Impulse and I just renewed my sub in the past month or 6 weeks

Noah...  Give me a call. Did you do a Windows Update before this happened?

When did you renew your ODNT subscription (look in the Store).

The Store download is the problematic one... Not the one in Impulse. So, if your ODNT sub is OK and was in effect before all the store/Impulse dl methods started, do this:

1. Open and update Impulse. Un-tick the "pre release" version thing in Preferences Tab.

2. Close and reopen Impulse.

3. Find Windowblinds in the "My Software" tab. Left click once on it... should highlight it. Then, press "Shift + Right Click" and choose "Verify Installation" and let that run.

4. Do the update it tells you to do.

5. Reboot.

That's what fixed it for me.

neophil -

I should have been a tad more specific.  My suggestions would apply only if your sub remains active and your most recent renewal occurred prior to the sale of Impluse to Gamestop.  Impulse will continue to work for updating/installing desktop apps only until the first post-sale renewal or the sub active at the time of the sale subsequently expires, whichever comes first.

Your sub is active, true, but you renewed after the sale and Impulse is no longer of any use to you for managing SD desktop apps (except to the extent you may have successfully archived apps with it prior to your 31Aug11 renewal that are restorable with Impulse).

Your only option going forward is using the individual store downloads.  Until the replacement for Impulse, which is under development, is released.

Hope that makes some sense now.