The ol' Windowblinds not loading problem

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First, I'd like to complain about the forum search. It appears to be Google based (not really a complaint) but I for the life of me can't find the sort feature and I can't remember the Google shortcut to limit search boundaries.  I do a search for the above and I get a good deal of what looks like proper results (yay me) The article dates go 2004, 2009, 2006, 2011, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2010....  Can you see my problem? In order to get the most recent version of Windowblinds and the most current operating system I would like to limit the search to the last two years. I don't remember the code to put into the search to do it. Could there be either "Search Hints" or "Advanced Search" or something an idiot like me can find? If there was I probably wouldn't be writing this.

Anyway, about Windowblinds...

I realized that the critter was not in the tray and probably hadn't been in the last few weeks. I had noticed that my favorite window roll up response was gone right after the Olympics, but I figured it was just the skin I was using as some skins refuse to play that game.  So, I whip the program out of hiding in the menu and choose a new skin and click the close bar. No program is seen in the tray. I open it again and tell it minimize and again no program is in the tray but there is a shortcut on the Task Bar. Not what I want. Tried a restart and still no familiar icon where I have had it for several years.

Looking at Task Manager I seem to have the correct number of Stardock programs and don't find anything missing (that I remember) I look at services and there is Windowblinds way down at the bottom of the list and it says "Running". BTW, what are the two Startdock entries that have the word "Vista" in their names? I've always wondered.

So, any hints of what I might have installed that has made Windowblinds mad at me? I haven't been on any type of installing sprees lately and really have been turning off a lot of things to give more responsiveness for playing the beta game I have been running. Maybe I turned off something I shouldn't? I have the paths and command lines showing in Task Manager so that I don't do that knowingly.

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

hi LizMarr ...
ok for the seartch you can limit searches there are many many ways to do so but i do it this way ( note the search is limited by 32 words in google)
open your search engine : then type *term*site:******.*** example *windowblinds not loading* site:wincustomize.com it will limit the search to not loading and windowblind and will only show results by wincustomize.com

to the problem itself  : so your tray selection is gone ? the pop up thingy on the taskbar ?
klick the arrow then there should be an option / adjust ... sometimes it will hide them you can choose what it shall show and what to hide... i assume you have win7...
If i missunderstood sorry a screenshot would help  

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I realized that the critter was not in the tray
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Make sure WB is set to show its icon in the systray:

Open WB config (where you apply a different skin)

Click on Settings tab at the top

New window will pop up, should come up on it's "Settings" tab

Make sure 1st item is checked, "Show icon in the system tray for easy access to WindowBlinds settings"

I had noticed that my favorite window roll up response was gone
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If you were using double click or right click on the titlebar to rollup, those settings are on the same screen as above down towards the bottom.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Check. First thing I looked at was maybe that check mark was gone. I'm not a Windowblinds novice (I've had it since 2007-ish, it was the second Stardock product I bought)

 

Therein lies the problem. I made sure that the magic check box was checked, I made sure that the service was active. I must have given it half a dozen different themes to digest to see if it might like one better. Nothing.

 

As for Google, this site search is Google based. So I don't need to put site:wincustomize.com into the search box (I didn't know about the 32 character thing though. Thanks) I'd like to limit it by date, like you can in the Google home page search results page (left-hand size, search tools or something like that. dates are a choice)