Emilio Cerra

Emilio Cerra

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Reply to Problem using WB6 with multiple user accounts in Vista Home Premium in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Dave, I did a clean install of Windowblinds, but because the files had been updated since the last time I had tried it (back in December), it's possible that the improvements to the UI were because of the update and not the permissions change. I can't remember if I was in the standard account or the admin account when I ran the batch file, but I'll try it again from the administrator account. Also, I overcame the administrator error I was getting when I tried to uninstall Stard

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Reply to Problem using WB6 with multiple user accounts in Vista Home Premium in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Sorry for the vaguely worded update. My Vista machine is currently setup with four accounts; an administrator account (w/ password) that is not routinely used, and three standard user accounts for my wife, my son and myself. These standard accounts are the ones used on a daily basis. I'm attempting to run this way in order to take advantage of the improved security in Vista. Unfortunately, when I installed Windowblinds 6 on this machine it would only showup on the administrator account.

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Reply to Problem using WB6 with multiple user accounts in Vista Home Premium in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Ok, I've tried the batch file submitted by Mike. The short of it is that it didn't work as expected, which was to allow me to run separate instances of WindowBlinds for the various non-administrator users on my computer. It actually made things worse, as I now can't uninstall [B]ANY[/B] of the object desktop items on my computer, because the system thinks I no longer have administrative rights (even on my admin account). What the batch file tries to do is use the CACLS command to set pe

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Reply to Problem using WB6 with multiple user accounts in Vista Home Premium in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

Chubs, You can overcome the interface coming up black by right-clicking on the WindowBlinds icon and running it with administrative rights. Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my problem of using WB in standard user accounts. The only account that is currently being skinned is the admin account. Is this a bug in WB6 or am I just doing something wrong? Regards, Emilio

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Problem using WB6 with multiple user accounts in Vista Home Premium in WindowBlinds Stardock Forums

I just installed WindowBlinds 6 on a new computer running Vista Home Premium. I've got the machine configured with a "master" administrative account and several standard user accounts. UAC is active and we're trying to do the right thing security-wise by only working with standard accounts. The problem is that the WindowBlinds skins are only showing up on the full-access administrator account. When I try to run WindowBlinds in the standard accounts the dialog box comes up mostly black,

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Reply to Start Panel Problem in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Your problem is most probably associated with your icon sizes. Try going into display properties->appearance->effects. If you have Use Large Icons checked, uncheck it. See if that helps.

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Reply to Icon-A-Day, Icon # 67, Printers in Icons WinCustomize Forums

Once again, incredible work. Using meshes is definitely NOT as easy as you make it look, and yet... ...it really motivates one to try. Thanks again, Mormegil, for sharing your skills with the rest of us.

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Bug in Start Panel Rollovers Using Alpha Channel Transparency in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I'm experiencing a quirky bug using WindowBlinds 4.50.044 on both my home (Dell desktop) and work (Dell laptop) computers. I've been experimenting with alpha transparency on the userpane of a skin that I've been playing with and noticed that the first time you open the start panel, rollover effects on both menus will not work. However, if I close the start panel then reopen it, the rollovers work just fine. I removed the alpha transparency to see if th

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Need help changing color of disabled text shadow in Skinning WinCustomize Forums

Can anyone tell me what setting in SkinStudio controls the color of disabled text shadows? I'm using a dark/medium grey gradient in my menu backgrounds and the white default looks very bad. I've spent the last two nights experimenting with SkinStudio, but none of the changes seem to affect the shadow color. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [Message Edited]

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Reply to The Capture of Saddam Hussein - A Non American Perspective in Politics JoeUser Forums

Mr. Crowley, the problem that I have with most thesis of this nature (beyond the relentless anti-americanism and Bush hatred, of course) is the shallowness of arguments used. Every left-wing/socialist paper I've read or listened to over the last year ends up in the same place -- Saddam was a friend of the US, we sold him his weapons, the WMDs did not exist, he was not a threat to the US (or anyone else for that matter). Apart from the fact that most of these claims can be easily debunke

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Reply to User Picture in XP in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

A different kind of User Picture question. I've been working on making a WindowBlinds skin and I've noticed that some skins (Apollo, for example) have offset the User Picture. How is that done? I've gone through all of the tuturials and examined the skins in SkinStudio, but can't seem to find the right properties to change.

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