Does windowblinds 6 break vista's aero?

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When I go to Control Panel\Personalization It is always defaulted to Windows Standard.  When I try to apply Aero, and go back, its back at Windows Standard.  Any ideas why this is, or what I am missing?

Using Vista Home Premium 64 w/ SP1

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.4
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 5.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 92 x86 - Vista Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(HP w2207 Wide LCD Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Wblind.dll         2008/04/08 14:21:20
Wblind64.dll         2008/04/08 14:21:07
Wbsrv.dll         2008/03/11 06:56:22
Wbconfig.exe         2008/04/12 17:53:33
Wbload.exe         2008/02/14 12:05:14
Wbhelp.dll         2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll              2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll              2007/09/26 11:53:28
Screen.exe         2008/02/13 17:15:18
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Anyone working support today?
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
bodean, this isn't support.  Or rather . .it's community support adn Stardock pops in as they can.

Official support is [email protected]

Unless one of us has had the same problem (and a fix) you may not get much of a response.  Further, as a 64bit user you are in the minority here and help might be harder to come by.   (:(
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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Everytime I install WB on Vista I can no longer apply Aero... too.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Everytime I install WB on Vista I can no longer apply Aero... too.


Interesting...
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, right on time.. I just happened to re-install Vista... all seems well this time.

Fingers crossed.  :) 
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just re-applied Aero through windowblinds, and it changed right away,(funny I've never used it... always had windowblinds since I installed vista lol) I have the same Graphics card, but everything else is different, what driver version do you have for you graphics card? I have version 7.15.11.6925 if you have the same maybe we can exclude the card as the problem... I'm thinking it's an issue with the 64 bit vista and windowblinds...
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
How do you enable it in WB again?
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I don't have vista, but would it not be similar as in WB on XP? Classic and XP style are all the way to the left... Maybe Aero is over there?
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
When I go to Control Panel\Personalization It is always defaulted to Windows Standard. When I try to apply Aero, and go back, its back at Windows Standard. Any ideas why this is, or what I am missing?


Hi bodean

What theme are you applying with window blinds currently?
"Areo" is the deafault windows theme(style), when you apply a windowblinds theme, it is no longer "AREO" Compliant and uses all the window blinds features.

You can go, as Bichur suggested, to window blinds, and scroll the themes list all the way to the far left of the screen and choose Windows Areo then apply it.The current window blinds skin will change back to windows Aero.

Hope this helps

GigaByte69
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

I have the same problem - on my laptop, I have Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit), and whenever I run WindowBlinds 6, Aero is disabled when I bring the laptop from standby mode or whenever I reboot.  When I go to Preferences on the desktop, I get the classic preferences pane, and not the new webby one, and the only choices are Windows Classic and Windows Aero Basic.  When I try to apply Aero through WB 6, it just goes to Aero Basic.  The only way I can enable Aero again is to unload WB 6 and then reboot.  It's still installed on the laptop but I don't use it anymore because it keeps wrecking Aero.

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

This is all as it should be. Windowblinds is an in depth Theme manager with it's own type of themes. If you apply a theme through windowblinds then YES aero is no longer in effect, you now have a Windowblinds theme applied. If you go into personalize and change it back to aero then you are causeing a conflict with windowblinds.

If you want aero then like above posts state start the Windowblincs interface and scroll the list of themes all the way to the left and choose windows aero and your Aero theme will be back when you apply it.

On another note if you want to combine aero like window frames and stuff with window blinds there is options to do this THROUGH the Windowblinds interface. Take some time and look at all the settings in WindowBlinds.

If you only want Aero and no other Windowblinds features then it would be best to uninstall Windowblinds all together.

I don't know how much this helped but I hope at least some.

 

 

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