Windowblinds painting issues.

Published on April 4, 2006 By Alpha Tellurian In WindowBlinds

I have noticed, as I am sure most have, that Windowblinds fails to paint the GUI in allot of cases. I was hoping a new version would fix it but, it hasn't. Things like, window frames not painting when a non maximized window is scaled to full screen size. On occassion after a boot or reboot there is no skin applied whatsoever. I haven't worked o a skin in awhile, I'm almost afraid to see all the SkinStudio bugs still present. It's for these reasons I haven't made a skin in a while. Just sick of fighting with bugs. I don't know how many times I have been forced to reboot because these buggy apps failed to function properly. Don't see me buying anymore software for a loooong time. Corporate greed is a shame. And on top of that, these new servers suck. Most of the time the website isn't even accessable. The other times it's slower than hell or just refuses to open other pages once you get to the main. Great job.

But hey, Galactic Civ is out though...

Comments

Peter Gadsden

on Apr 04, 2006

I have been having similar problems to you.
At boot the task bar would be slightly oversized and with "Chunky" icons. Sometimes No WB icon in task bar.
Unloading & then reloading WB some times fixed the problem but NOT always!
Then I found quite by accident that By running MSBootvis or running my defrag (including defrag of boot files) the problem dissapeared for a while. Is it possible that WB is not finding all it's components during boot?

I run applications that use huge files, 300mb graphic scans, so my disks get fragmented quite quickly.

What will happen to "fixes" for our problems now that GOOGLE have got thier hands on Window Blinds?

PurrBall

on Apr 04, 2006

Er, google does not own WindowBlinds, Stardock does.

aimzzz

on Apr 04, 2006

What will happen to "fixes" for our problems now that GOOGLE have got thier hands on Window Blinds?

You are probably referring to Brad's April Fool's joke about Yahoo buying WB--
Read the last line of his post
https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=153&AID=110984

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