I have reset your activation count. If you are going to be reinstalling things every other day, then I strongly suggest you make a copy of sig.bin in your WB directory so you can copy it in after reinstalling WB each time.
clwoods: The status of a user when posting from forums.stardock.com tends to show up oddly.
Are you running large fonts mode, or have altered the system default dialog font? Also do the other 2 'buttons' on that dialog work?
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The problem DOES happen with those apps. We get reports of overlay issues with ObjectDock all the time.
Prevent WindowBlinds from loading on startup was a 9x/2000 option only in WB4. WB on XP has never provided such an option.
An app on your PC is preventing key registry entries for WB from being written. Does the installer display any error messages during installation?
Its a bug in ThemeManager. For some reason it thinks WB5 is WB4 and is using older methods to start WB which are no longer supported.
It seems download.com are still hosting an old build which expired on the 1st January. We have a new build which was done in December, but for some reason its not been updated on their server. Hopefully this will be resolved later today.
Make sure you have the latest MP trial version as older trials all expired on the 1st January.
I would be more worried about that tooltip at the bottom right of your screen.
It looks like the nvidia opengl drivers are simply not aware of per pixel windows. DirectX apps are (I doubt MS would grant WHQL status on drivers if they were not), but Microsoft do not test OpenGL drivers. Something tells me its a performance tweak. I seem to recall ATI OpenGL drivers are correctly aware of per pixel windows.
cnlevo: The problem is caused by apps deleting critical WB registry keys. The apps in question believe they are protecting the user, but in fact they are just messing with legit apps.
As the only reports of this are with SIS graphics, it seems likely this is a graphics driver bug. Could you try using 16 bit colour mode (reapply the skin after changing colour depth) and see if that helps?
The latest beta build of WB fixes this. It should be downloadable as a release version soon.
smccaffe: Have you also been using an XBOX360 with your PC?
ObjectBar isn't something I am involved in I am afraid.
It would not have auto uninstalled though and it just refuses to load and so could not have done anything to PhotoShop CS. But installing the release version of WB from SDC should allow you to continue to use WB. All the WB 4.9x builds had expiry dates, but no build since WB 5.0 release have them.
You need to tell VLC to not use overlays.
Regarding this, I have passed the query onto the correct people (its not my area).
HG Eliminator: Did your subscription run out before November 29th? The beta versions of WB5 had timeouts which stopped them working on the 1st January.
That is perfectly normal behaviour for WB5 per pixel skins.
Thats being caused by the massive titlebars the current skin is using. There is no room left in the preview for the install, edit, change, delete, apply text, so its being shifted down. If you change to a skin with smaller titlebars, it should all preview ok.
It seems your OpenGL drivers are not 100% compatible with XP. What type of card do you have?
To be fair its not a bug. The feature was removed in WB5. It might be coming back in 5.1 though.
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MeFirst: Sorry, but the problem IS with the OS. It seems a bug in the OS is exposed by using a specific feature of the OS. In this case its having anything per pixel on screen (ObjectDock, WindowFX shadows, WindowBlinds 5 per pixel skins, DesktopX objects, Konfabulator widgets etc etc) We are looking to see if there is a way we can workaround this, but in the end the problem isn't actually caused by Stardock. If you tell the apps to not use overlays then th
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