WindowBlinds is completely useless with Windows 8?!

January 2, 2017 11:57 PM from

I tried to install WindowBlinds on Windows 8.1 Pro x64 (freshly installed without any updates).

I only installed drivers, Visual C++ and DirectX. No softwares yet, so there couldn't be compatibility issues with them.

If I try to change ANY styles in WindowBlinds, after changing it, it ruins my Windows and gives me the error message: "Management Console has stopped working"

I cannot open services, device manager, event viewer and a lot of other things.

If I change back to default style, the problem disappears.

I tried to update Windows 8.1 to the latest update. Installed all the important Windows updates up to today.

Didn't help. Problem is still the same.

Uninstalled the software and checked the event viewer. It tells me this:

Faulting application name: mmc.exe, version: 6.3.9600.16384, time stamp: 0x5215ef8f
Faulting module name: WBLIND64.dll, version: 10.5.0.0, time stamp: 0x581767b7
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x00000000000d69f0
Faulting process id: 0xe2c
Faulting application start time: 0x01d2657b8af16d0d
Faulting application path: C:\Windows\system32\mmc.exe
Faulting module path: C:\WindowBlinds\WBLIND64.dll
Report Id: c9a4d173-d16e-11e6-8261-f832e4c01383
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:

windowblinds

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Reply #1 January 3, 2017 5:57 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

That is certainly not normal.

I will ask someone in QA to double check but are you sure there is nothing else installed and have you enabled any unusual debugging settings in Windows? That exception code is not something we would ever expect to see and the offset points to code which shouldn't cause any problems either.

Reply #2 January 3, 2017 6:47 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

Only drivers are installed: Nvidia and Intel Chipset + Network Adapter + Visuall C++ and Directx

I mostly use portable applications so no installations should disturb this application.

Reply #3 January 4, 2017 10:11 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

We have been able to reproduce the problem and have it fixed for the next update. Hopefully that will come this or next week.

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