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I downloaded WindowBlinds and had a skin installed. I had a completely separate issue with my computer where I decided to do a system restore to 2 days ago. In turn, I lost WindowBlinds. No big deal, I reinstalled it, reloaded my skin, etc etc. So it's back and working fine and dandy.

However I'm unsure of something. Before I did the system restore, the WindowBlinds icon was not displayed in the taskbar (lower right hand corner). Now, it is. If I shut it off, my skin is removed. I've done nothing different from last time I had it installed to this time, so I'm unsure of why it would do this.

Don't get me wrong, I could care less. But it's one of those things that I just want to understand... not so much get rid of the icon.

Side question - How much more resources (ram in particular) does WindowBlinds use to display the skin on Windows XP?
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Which version of WindowBlinds. When you say shut off, are you unloading WB from icon popup menu, which restores to Windows default or are you deselecting show icon in WB config, user overrides.

As for resoures it varies depending on how complex the skin is, a basic skin will be less than a meg, the skin I am currently using, is pretty much a completely done skin, some animations such as start button, it is using about 1.4 meg.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
for resources: I believe 'Blackcomb' is one of the ones people use for comparison - it was made for low resource use.

you didn't by any chance have the beta installed before - which if i read correctly doesn't show an icon & then reinstall 4?
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm pretty sure it was the exact same thing both times, because it linked me to download.com, I used the same link as last time to download the program.

I went into user overrides and found the icon thing that Cavan spoke about. The one that says "show icon in system tray." Right? Do I have to restart to activate that or what? I'm running a ton of downloads and don't want to restart 'just' to test it... but I deselected it and I still see that ol' icon!

Also - I'm just curious about the resources. Sure Blackcomb or whatever you spoke about may be made for low resources, but I was more curious as to what WindowBlinds in particular runs at... Edit - I just messed around with it, disabled WindowBlinds, enabled it again, etc etc, while constantly watching my available ram space. Does 5 megs sound like a reasonable rate for WB to run at? I was at 655400 free space without WB running, with it running I hit 660200 and that's where it stabilized. That's like 4800 (just shy of 5 megs). Sound sensible? If so, then I guess even a system with like, say 128 meg ram I would doubt would be noticably effected.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
3-5 is about what the one's I use run - and cpu usage sitting still is usually no more than 3%

If so, then I guess even a system with like, say 128 meg ram I would doubt would be noticably effected.


shouldn't really. unless you maybe if you use some of the skins that stay animated
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Does 5 megs sound like a reasonable rate for WB to run at?


That is very high, in processes, task manager, for WB will be wbload.exe, check it to see what wb is using.
When using WB all it does is hook onto Windows native gui and replace the bitmaps etc. It does not take over.
The 5 meg is most likely a spike will skin was being applied. Once applied I have never seen usage of more than 2 meg. Or is this when WB config is open, if so this is only time it will use that much as it is searching for skins when it is opened. Once a skin is applied and config is closed resources usage is generally less than Windows uses.
For the tray icon I think it does need a restart to take affect.
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
3-5 is about what the one's I use run


Hey Bichur what skins are running that high, I am currently using neOS by danilloOc, wbload.exe using 1.5 meg.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a medium resource skin loaded and TM says 1,065 kb. So it is light!
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Bichur what skins are running that high


ignore me, i was looking at configure not load