DesktopX, Windows Blinds froze XP

Thanks for your support DW,
I appreciate it.

My system beeps because the soundcard is disabled (I'm sure it's because the
cracked version of WB5 integrates with it for sound schemes) and it's only
when a system alert (ie:'default beep')would normally be present. Sometimes
in high usage (it is an old proccessor after all....Otherwise the system is
OK but aging rapidly.

A list of hardware upgrades I want leads me to think I might as well buy a
new machine.

As for my immediate issues... I back up my registries now and then for such
an occasion (dust and ash). I was thinking of reinstalling the WB5 crack,
uninstalling it from safemode, deleting all traces and inserting the backup
registries...Is that safe and will it work? WB5 nestles in pretty tight to
the system.

On ignorance, there is a lot to be said but mostly...
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "
-Will Durant
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is
sure. "
-Mark Twain
(which may be sarcasm if it wasn't Mark Twain saying so). I try to only
think when needed,... I'm happier that way.


As for DSH aka 'the Comic Book Guy' (CBG)....
'There are in fact two things, reason and opinion; the former begets
knowledge, the latter ignorance. '
-Hippocrates
DSH/CBG can 'Alt-F4' himself. I don't want to talk about him anymore, I'm
sure every word just bloats his soft Ego...besides, CBG's main issue is that
he bought a new computer and won't take it out of the mylar.

If all we all lived by what we thought was sensible then in what sense is
life worth living?




"DW" wrote:

Brand,

Truth to tell, it seems to me that you have two problems that need to be
addressed before you can even hope for a solution...the cracked version of
Windowblinds, and your system.

Honestly, I don't think your system is up to it. I haven't run Intel
processors for six or seven years now but it strikes me that if your system
is beeping at you, something is seriously wrong. That needs to be addressed
first.

After that, more ram would help. Once you either replace or upgrade your MB
and ram, a clean install (or re-install) of WinXP is in order....perhaps
even a full format of your C drive (if you have more than one partition).

And be careful with software that comes from...shall we say "suspect"
sources. It's always a risk and there are enough people out there who
deliberately sabotage cracks or encode a "back door" so that they can mess
with your system, that it's probably wise not to fool with cracked software
at all...even if it comes from a friend.

One final comment in passing...it is no sin to be ignorant. We are
all...every single one of us...totally ignorant about something....and
ignorant about any and everything, to some degree. Ignorance is just a lack
of knowlege and is easily corrected.

When you wake up in the morning, Brand...after having read this
forum...looking for knowlege and answers...you'll be less ignorant. That's
all anyone can ask of life.

DSH, on the other hand, will still be a scrub come morning light...having
learned nothing about anything, much less how to be a decent human
being...and further steeping himself in the kind of behaviour that makes it
all too apparant what an ass he is.

--
DW
In the High Desert of Central Oregon


"brand dub" wrote in message
...
If anyone could reccomend a REAL solution I would be greatful...

Brand,

Well, I always set a system restore point before I install any new piece of
software. If you have a restore point from before your initial installation
of WB, I'd use it if I were you. As for backed up registries...I'm not gonna
advise anyone one way or the other. I've fooled with the registry --hacked
it and deleted entries--enough to know that I don't know enough about it to
fool with it unless I'm desperate. One of the reasons I love XP--system
restore.

I wouldn't worry about how close WB gets to the system...just my
opinion...if only because I understand that the default XP theme--the one
with the green start button, is an earlier version of WB licenced from
Stardock. Don't try to take that to the bank but that's what I've been told.
And WB5...no telling about a cracked version, though--doesn't replace or
patch or hack anything...like UXtheme does. So you should be good to go.
It's just another program.

Well, I wish you good luck on all of this...

--
DW
In the High Desert of Central Oregon



As for my immediate issues... I back up my registries now and then for
such
an occasion (dust and ash). I was thinking of reinstalling the WB5 crack,
uninstalling it from safemode, deleting all traces and inserting the
backup
registries...Is that safe and will it work? WB5 nestles in pretty tight to
the system.

Hilarious!

The kiss-off:

Well, I wish you good luck on all of this...

DSH

"DW" wrote in message
...

Brand,

Well, I always set a system restore point before I install any new piece
of software. If you have a restore point from before your initial
installation of WB, I'd use it if I were you. As for backed up
registries...I'm not gonna advise anyone one way or the other. I've fooled
with the registry --hacked it and deleted entries--enough to know that I
don't know enough about it to fool with it unless I'm desperate. One of
the reasons I love XP--system restore.

I wouldn't worry about how close WB gets to the system...just my
opinion...if only because I understand that the default XP theme--the one
with the green start button, is an earlier version of WB licenced from
Stardock. Don't try to take that to the bank but that's what I've been
told. And WB5...no telling about a cracked version, though--doesn't
replace or patch or hack anything...like UXtheme does. So you should be
good to go. It's just another program.

Well, I wish you good luck on all of this...

--
DW
In the High Desert of Central Oregon

As for my immediate issues... I back up my registries now and then for
such an occasion (dust and ash). I was thinking of reinstalling the WB5
crack,
uninstalling it from safemode, deleting all traces and inserting the
backup registries...Is that safe and will it work? WB5 nestles in pretty
tight to
the system.

"DW" wrote:
Brand,

Well, I always set a system restore point before I install any new piece of
software. If you have a restore point from before your initial installation
of WB, I'd use it if I were you.

Good idea, one of the first things I tried though, it wont work prior to the
install date...

As for backed up registries...I'm not gonna advise anyone one way or the
other. I've fooled with the registry...enough to know that I don't know
enough about it to fool with it unless I'm desperate.

Me too and yes. I am desperate. It'll be the last thing I do before a clean
install (which I would buy a new hard drive for). Sytem Restore is like a GUI
version of regedit, SR does it with more grace and less tinkering if I'm
correct - I'm new here.

I wouldn't worry about how close WB gets to the system...just my
opinion...if only because I understand that the default XP theme--the one
with the green start button, is an earlier version of WB licenced from
Stardock. Don't try to take that to the bank but that's what I've been told.

Neat. I tought I heard something about that too. If it's true you'd think
microsoft would grant them more lisences for .msstyle through the uxtheme as
they did for the first three ...weird (the uxtheme only accepts lisenced
..msstyles files from microsoft)

And WB5...no telling about a cracked version, though--doesn't replace or
patch or hack anything...like UXtheme does. So you should be good to go.
It's just another program.

Most uxtheme patchers literally replace the uxtheme.dll on your hard disk.
Style XP is one of those which I paid for and got bored of . One good thing
about WB5 is that it uses it's own visual styles through wblind.dll instead
of messing with the XP native style bundler uxtheme.dll. So with this said -
where is my 'Windows XP.theme' file? And why is the explorer bar still
showing the WB5 version after ubinstalling it??
Well, I wish you good luck on all of this...

Thank you for your ideas and input DW (nice to know there are some normal
people out there too )
DW
In the High Desert of Central Oregon

In the Low Tundra of Southern Ontario lol
As for my immediate issues... I back up my registries now and then for
such
an occasion (dust and ash). I was thinking of reinstalling the WB5 crack,
uninstalling it from safemode, deleting all traces and inserting the
backup
registries...Is that safe and will it work? WB5 nestles in pretty tight to
the system.

D. Spencer Hines" wrote:

Hilarious!

The kiss-off:

Well, I wish you good luck on all of this...

DSH
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yu-you mean....Jeff Albertson here might ACTUALLY put down that picture of
his mom, zip up his pants and offer some detailed support to somebody? Or was
that just another crass comment on the level of support someone ACTUALLY
gave? At least he offered some advice.

Here's a tip: When your IQ precedes your ability to understand things, you
turn into THAT guy ...

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:51:27 -0800, brand dub wrote:

I sent an email to Stardock support but I also back up my registries every
now and then so I will uninstall and deltele every instance of stardock,
restore pre winblinds 5 (WB5) reggies and reboot. Would this be wise? WB5
changes the GUI and sits pretty close to the OS so I don't want to make it
worse.

One more question..some applications auto LOG their install, how can I setup
to LOG every installations' directories in full? thanks for your

I like Neowin for news and technology gossip but personal opinion I would
never use any of their files. /personal opinion

Windows Blinds runs as a "layer" over XP so uninstalling and cleaning up
afterwards *should* yield decent results. No promises since I don't know
what changes were done to crack the program. Sometimes get odd side effects
from workarounds of that nature.

For logging installs: Some - but not many - apps will log their
installations. If available, the .log file is usually stashed in the
program's folder or subfolders. Other than that, there are third party
programs that can record changes made be software installations. I've tried
a few but abandoned them as I did not like the additional overhead. Maybe
you'll find a better one than I did?

--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User

The name of this program, of course, is WindowBlinds -- NOT "Windows
Blinds".

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

But our barefoot empiricist -- the "chef" -- can't even get that right --
much less avoid being so stupid as to install a cracked version on his
ageing computer and then wonder why his OS is frozen and non-functioning.

He was in fact too stupid just to pay $19.95 for a legitimate download of
the Enhanced version 5.0.

WindowBlinds appears to be one of the most worthless pieces of software one
could image....

BUT it seems to be designed just right for the mentality of the Technical
Cybernetic Masturbator [TCM], who wants to play with his computer, rather
than get any useful work done on it.

'Nuff Said.

DSH

d
"D. Spencer Hines" wrote in message
...
The name of this program, of course, is WindowBlinds -- NOT "Windows
Blinds".

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

But our barefoot empiricist -- the "chef" -- can't even get that right --
much less avoid being so stupid as to install a cracked version on his
ageing computer and then wonder why his OS is frozen and non-functioning.

He was in fact too stupid just to pay $19.95 for a legitimate download of
the Enhanced version 5.0.

WindowBlinds appears to be one of the most worthless pieces of software
one
could image....

BUT it seems to be designed just right for the mentality of the Technical
Cybernetic Masturbator [TCM], who wants to play with his computer, rather
than get any useful work done on it.

'Nuff Said.

DSH

"Comic Book Guy" wrote:

The name of this program, of course, is WindowBlinds -- NOT "Windows
Blinds".
Gratias ago vos pro rectus. I hate being caught with such erratum in
conversation.

http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/

But our barefoot empiricist -- the "chef" -- can't even get that right --
much less avoid being so stupid as to install a cracked version on his
ageing computer and then wonder why his OS is frozen and non-functioning.
[ed:Sp."ageing" to "aging"]
[ed:Pleonastic. Redundant."frozen and non-functioning" - consider revising]
[ed:Caps."chef" should be "Chef" as is "Sous Chef"]

My OS would 'hang' for a bit but was still functional. The GUI had problems
with repainting.
See this Stardock forum for 'crack' issue fix:
http://forums.stardock.com/?ForumID=167&AID=95598
Basically they ask you to download the real WBlinds and use it to uninstall
the 'hack.

He was in fact too stupid just to pay $19.95 for a legitimate download of
the Enhanced version 5.0.
Lesson learned;
Beware the scourage of FTP downloads...and haste. I$ that Canadian?

WindowBlinds appears to be one of the most worthless pieces of software one
could image....
[ed:typo. "could image..." to 'could imagine...' or 'could see'.]

Funny you should ask! Window Blinds is the leading themer (not patcher) out
there, they also painted the screen in front of you. Microsoft lisensed them
to create the three original XP themes.
DesktopX although a fun novelty, IS overhang and waste of resources.

BUT it seems to be designed just right for the mentality of the Technical
Cybernetic Masturbator [TCM], who wants to play with his computer, rather
than get any useful work done on it.

Some people just plain don't like music or art in general either, I (and
probably everyone else) don't care what your likes and dislikes are.
Thanks for your musings, however I find it difficult to believe you do
anything
"useful" with your machine considering the material in your posts, you're a
flamer.

'Nuff Said.
You certainly have said nuff.
DSH