Control panel not skinned

February 23, 2003 3:27 PM from

I've installed all CopperDeckII components in my XP system and everything works fine except the Control Panel (plus others such as printers, etc.) are not fully skinned. I've turned off "Use Windows XP style explorer bars" under the WindowBlinds configuration, but have seen no change. I was looking for something like the sample image for CopperDeckII which shows the control panel dialog open and fully skinned. What am I missing? Thanks.

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Reply #1 February 23, 2003 4:07 PM from

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Well, you have to have 2 things....

Windowblinds 3.9 alpha
Control Panel Set to "Category View"

Reply #2 February 23, 2003 5:44 PM from

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Thanks, Skinner. However, I still must not be doing something right. I'm now running version 3.90e, have changed back and forth between Classic and Category view, rebooted, unloaded and re-loaded WindowBlinds and still have that blue standard interior on the Control Panel window. I've also tried some of the XP Overrides in the advanced settings (checked first two options). Any help would be appreciated.

Reply #3 February 23, 2003 6:16 PM from

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Did you have the previous version of Copperdeck II in you WindowBlinds file. The reason I ask is that when I updated Copperdeck II to the new version that supports WB4 options I had to first delete the previous version. Don't know why, just was. You could give that a try. Delete Copperdeck II completely from you hard drive. Then download and install it again and see if it works.

Reply #4 February 23, 2003 6:33 PM from

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also, make sure control panel in not in your "exclusion" list in WB configuration

Reply #5 February 23, 2003 6:43 PM from

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Bingo. Deleting and re-adding CopperDeckII did the trick -- but whoa, while that worked, the colors changed from the original orange to a purple/blue (icons of course are still ok). Was that supposed to happen? I'll try starting from scratch again to see if it goes back to the way it was.

Thanks everyone who responded and if anyone knows anything about this purple thing (I've not touched any of the colors), I'd like to know what causes this.

Reply #6 February 23, 2003 11:04 PM from

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Thanks to everyone who helped. The color problem was under the "Sub Design" and somehow purple was selected. By disabling the "Enable Colouring" option, everything started working as it should.

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