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Reply to Two general questions: 1) Updating Master Skins in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Thanks everybody! @Cameochi: Thank you, clever idea! (and again: just why didn't I think about this myself, I wonder... [e digicons]:waaaa:[/e] I'm saving all my Stardock receipts in a special folder in Thunderbird and I'm backing up Thunderbird regularly, so everything is there... the only explanation I have is that I'm elsewhere with my mind at the moment, the FIFA World Cup for example and the second semi-finale match tonight [e digicons];)[/e] ) By the way, you will get the upda

Reply to Two general questions: 1) Updating Master Skins in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Thanks to both of you! I've tried the conversion utility myself and I used to port a few XP-msstyles with SkinStudio 6, but SkinStudio 7 doesn't seem to offer an option to do that. Maybe it's too complicated with Vista or Win 7 msstyles. Well, as long as there isn't an easy way to import visual styles, I think I have to do without, since I'm no expert at skinning at all. @DrJBHL Yes, thanks, it's a good idea to contact the master (and so obvious that I don't know why I didn't

Two general questions: 1) Updating Master Skins in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Hello there, I have two general questions: 1) I have purchased several Master Skins - but they are all for XP/Vista and I'm running Win7 64-bit now. Is it possible to simply update these skins (if available) or would I have to purchase the Win7-Version? 2) I've been using Visual Styles for a while when I couldn't get WindowBlinds to work on my system (it's running now [e digicons]:)[/e] !) Some of these styles are good work - I'd like to port a few of them to WindowB

Reply to How to disable the skinning of IE8 toolbar in WB7? in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Hi, there's an option in the WindowBlinds settings which allows you to exclude apps from being skinned. I recently had a bad issue with WB and one thing Stardock Support suggested I should do is exclude one program from being skinned (it gave me an error message before). These are the instructions I got from support: "Please open the configuration for WindowBlinds, click on the "Settings" button at the top. Click the "Per Aplication tab" and then click "Add...". Browse to the

Reply to Logon Studio and Windows 7 in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

@Wizard1956 Yes, thank you, I somehow didn't think about checking the ProgramData Folder. It still doesn't work with LogonStudio Files, but since I can make my own... and any wallpaper I'm putting into the C:\ProgramData\Stardock\LogonStudio Vista folder will be in the built-in logon screens list as well, I think, so I can live with that. Thanks for everyone's help and suggestions!

Reply to Logon Studio and Windows 7 in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

@Shirley, I took ownership of the original Windows-background file and renamed it. Now I can apply screens from the "Built-in logon screens" list in Logon Studio as well as my own screens. But I still can't apply screens located in the DefaultLogons folder (the one in the Logon Studio program folder). Where are the built-in logonon screens located? Maybe it workes to safe all downloaded logon screens to that location? Thanks!

Reply to Logon Studio and Windows 7 in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hello, it simply doesn't apply. What happens is that the default logon screen is "highlighted" when I choose a skin (from the "built-in logon screens" list) and click apply. But the logon screen won't change. If I create a screen of my own which then appears in the "my logon screens" list I can apply it from there. All the downloaded screens which are saved to the C\Programs (x86)\Stardock\Object Desktop\Logon Studio\Default Logons directory won't appear in the skin list of Logon Stud

Reply to Logon Studio and Windows 7 in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hello, I too have problems applying LogonStudio files. I can create my own logons using my own backrounds - applying works. But I can't apply downloaded LS-files. Tried to rename the backround.bmp in the system32/oobe folder, but "Trusted Installer" won't let me. Use of the above mentionend stardock-access_bat or verifying the installation via impulse and running an update didn't help either. Any idea what I could do about this? Oh, here's my system: Win7 Pro, 64-bit, 4GB Ram, Intel Q

Reply to Window Blinds and Win7 Professional 64-Bit - severe problems in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

@ Shirley: I tried to apply a skin again (after un- and reinsatlling WB) and encountered the same problems - but now I noted down the error message (I've translated it as best as I could): "the command in 0x002c000 is pointing to memory/repository 0xffffffff. Operation read couldn't be operated in memory/repository. Klick ok to exit the program." This Message appears while the skin is being applied. At the same time all desktop icons and the windows taskbar

Reply to Severe Problems with Window Blinds on a Win7 64-bit system in Windows 7 WinCustomize Forums

I tried to apply a skin again and encountered the same problems - but now I noted down the error message (I've translated it as best as I could): "the command in 0x002c000 is pointing to memory/repository 0xffffffff. Operation read couldn't be operated in memory/repository. Klick ok to exit the program." This Message appears while the skin is being applied. At the same time all desktop icons and the windows taskbar disappear. I can exit WB by just normally clicking the exit bu

Reply to Window Blinds and Win7 Professional 64-Bit - severe problems in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

Hallo Cameochi, hello Shirley, thanks for your replies. @Shirley: No, unfortunatly I can't recollect precisely what that file was. It was some Explorer-related file and the window displaying the message was Classic-Windows and not displayed properly as well. But I posted this in the win7 category as well and one user suggested that it might indicate a hard drive problem. Thus I will contact my vendor, and most likely will have to pack my tower, carry it there and we'll try to

Reply to Severe Problems with Window Blinds on a Win7 64-bit system in Windows 7 WinCustomize Forums

Hello Neil, thanks for your reply. Yes, I did install LogonStudio but haven't used it yet. The Problem didn't occur while booting or logging in (though when logging in I already received the error message). Only after Login I experienced the blank screen, which was strange enough. I used to run WB/Object Desktop on my 32-Bit-XP-Notebook before and never experienced any Problems at all (all Stardock Apps worked fine). What also happened after System Recovery is

Severe Problems with Window Blinds on a Win7 64-bit system in Windows 7 WinCustomize Forums

Hello there, well, I know this is another win7 64-bit post ... but I've encountered severe problems with window blinds on my brand new (got it yesterday) win 7 professional 64-bit system. Install via Impulse worked just fine, but after applying a blind ("Frosted WB", I chose the win7 style) some explorer file couldn't be read anymore and the system froze. After rebooting all I got was a grey screen and a cursor. No access to anything. I managed to restore my system using th

Window Blinds and Win7 Professional 64-Bit - severe problems in Object Desktop WinCustomize Forums

I've moved this post to the Personal Computing > Windows 7 section Hello there, well, I know this is another win7 64-bit post ... but I've encountered severe problems with window blinds on my brand new (got it today) win 7 prof. 64-bit system. Install via Impulse worked just fine, but after applying a blind ("frosted", and I chose the win7 style) some explorer file couldn't be read anymore and the system froze. After rebooting all I got was a grey scree

Reply to Cursor FX Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Thanks both of you for your suggestions! I ran CCleaner and reinstalled and that didn't help. But moving the themes folder to the desktop seems to have helped, even though when I tried to open CFX I got the same error message again at first (and CFX created a new - empty of course - themes folder at the same time), but then I tried if I could apply any of the themes by double-clicking on the theme-file. That worked and afterwards I could open CFX "normally" and it now seems to work properly a

Cursor FX Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hello there, I can't open Cursor FX anymore, whenever I try to do so I receive this message: "Cusor FX has encountered a problem an needs to close". This is the error-signature: AppName: cursorfx control panel.exe AppVer: 2.0.0.1 ModName: cursorfx control panel.exe ModVer: 2.0.0.1 Offset: 00014be4 (though I'm not sure if this is helpful in any way). I uninstalled CFX and reinstalled it, but th

Reply to Logon Studio Problem in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

Thanks again. It wasn't a corrupted dll file, my zip-programm was the troublemaker (...), which I found out just by accident [e digicons]:annoyed:[/e] Now I'm using 7Zip and it works just fine. I wish you a happy new year and sorry for any inconvenience [e digicons]:-"[/e] Tintin67

Reply to Logon Studio Problem in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for your suggestion - both options are activated. The thing is, it used to work before, but doesn't anymore now... [e digicons]:([/e]

Logon Studio Problem in Customization Software WinCustomize Forums

Hello everbody, I'm using Logon Studio for XP and I can't load new logons anymore/or rather seem to be able to apply them (Logon Studio Document - so the file itself seems to ok) but they won't appear in the list of available logons. I recently had a similar problem with BootSkin, which I could solve (delete the vdstub driver file and reinstall) - is there a similar solution or what could be the reason? I un- and reinstalled Logon Studio, but it still doesn't work. Thank you for sugge

What happenend to the Impulse Dock? in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hello everyone, after the most recent Impulse-Update to ver. 3.10.330 (images: 3.10.175) (Build 942) I receive an error message after starting Impulse: TypeError: Error #1009: Der Zugriff auf eine Eigenschaft oder eine Methode eines null-Objektverweises ist nicht möglich. at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder/parseValue() at com.adobe.serialization.json::JSONDecoder() at com.adobe.serialization

Reply to Boot Skin Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Thanks again! Safe mode is very useful indeed and has already helped me with several problems ;)

Reply to Boot Skin Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Thanks for your suggestions! I did as recommendend in the BootSkin download section (deleted the vdstub.sys driver file) and installed version 1.0. Now it works just fine!!!

Boot Skin Problem in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hello, I hope I'm in the right category. I can't apply bootskins anymore. When I'm trying to open the bootskin.file I receive an error message, saying "There was an error importing this skin file. Possible causes are a corrupt skin file, or a read-only skin directory" I've tried to download and apply several BootSkins, e.g. LED.Matrix, Escape and Odessey. I've never experienced this problem before. Any ideas what could be the reason? (OS: XP SP2) Thank you very much!

Reply to IP Update Problems in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

OK, I've just downloaded Impulse, got my new serial for my IP, downloaded the latest IP, installed it and updated it through Impulse - no problems at all! Great new app!

IP Update Problems in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

Hi there, I've tried to update IP to the latest build (3.99.144) through SDCentral several times now, this is what happens: After downloading the files extracting doesn't seem to work; there's just about 1MB left to finish the update, but extracting will be done over and over again, and I'm getting strange information about its progress (e.g. "125% done", then it's "446% done", then "1xxx% done"...). I've never experienced Problems of that kind before. I'm using XP SP2, have broadband access