latest beta fails to load some skins

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WindowBlinds 5 BETA 2 Troubleshooting Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce FX 5500

Wblind.dll 2005/11/17 16:27:10
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/17 17:29:16
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/15 21:57:02
Wbload.exe 2005/11/02 13:36:34
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/10/17 10:55:14
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
Windows XP home SP2 plus all updates
Pentium 4 3.2Ghz
1.5GB RAM

After rebooting on loading 4.96b[b].002, my email programme (Turnpike 6.05 - which is integrated with Windows explorer) kept crashing (it would stay open for about 30 seconds. Tried reverting to previous beta but problem persisted. Tried uninstalling WB5 and restoring from archive - restore kept failing. Eventually used system restore to an earlier date and reintstalled 4.96b[b].002. Turnpike running OK but some skins will not install into WB5. e.g. "Browngel" shows as "Unknown" "By: Unknown" (also in "advanced"). "Rebuild List" causes "Unknown" to disappear. As far as I'm aware this is a new problem.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Using System restore is a gamble to say the least. If any files are not reverted back to that date, the program could be calling dll functions that don't exist and cause all sorts of mayhem. I'd recommend uninstalling WindowBlinds, restarting, reinstalling and restarting to see if that resolves your problem.

Running a program which integrates into Explorer could run you into any number of problems when running WindowBlinds, but how do you mean Turnpike "is integrated" though? Do you mean it creates an entry on the taskbar, or does it actually modify explorer.exe?

-Mike
[Stardock Support]

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'd recommend uninstalling WindowBlinds, restarting, reinstalling and restarting to see if that resolves your problem.



I had tried that(sorry if I didn't make it clear) but the problem persisted which is why I had to use system restore. Perhaps this excerpt from the Turnpike postmortem will help:

D:\Turnpike6\TURNCORE.DLL : Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:05:00
Version 6.05
int divide by zero at eip=66029B3F

A 'int divide by zero' fault occurred at: C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\wblind.dll 0001:00028b3f:

I have the full stack dump if you want to see it.

It's hard to explain about the integration of Turnpike - it actually becomes part of Windows Explorer. Not something I'm happy with but it's the best Email programme I have ever come across.
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