Since three WindowBlinds upgrades past, I have had the same problem -- upon a boot or reboot, WindowBlinds only skins things partially. Upon any restart, the taskbar will be skinned; the start will be skinned in a silver sort of default skin, with the start button being a Stardock symbol. Any program I open, no matter how small or trivial, will have no title bar, and the title bar will not be skinned -- thoughthe rest of the window's frame will be skinned, and any buttons will be skinned. The skin will refuse to re-apply, refreshing does not help, turning on and off DWM does not help, and changing to another skin will result in the same problem, but with the new skin. The only thing that DOES work is for me to log off and log back on as the same user, regardless of the level of account privileges the account I using may have; in addition, it doesn't matter if UAC is turned on or off, AVG Internet Security is on or off, or even if I boot clean with only the minimum running + Stardock apps.
Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone found a solution?
Here's the System Info WB gives me:
WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.1 (build 97 x86 - Vista Edition)
WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series
(Generic PnP Monitor) 2 is attached to ATI Radeon HD 2400 Series
Wblind.dll 2008/05/03 17:33:20
Wbsrv.dll 2008/04/30 18:21:58
Wbconfig.exe 2008/04/30 18:21:32
Wbload.exe 2008/02/14 11:05:14
Wbhelp.dll 2007/08/27 11:54:07
Tray.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:21
Wbload.dll 2007/09/12 17:58:28
Screen.exe 2008/01/11 12:14:18
Here's a bit more:
The Vista version is Home Premium. The base platform is an HP Pavilion a6110n, but RAM has been upgraded to 4GB, a 4GB flash drive used for ReadyBoost as been added, the motherboard graphics have been disabled in favor of a Radeon HD 2400 made by Powercolor, the PSU upgraded to 800 watts, and the dial-up modem removed, replaced by a 4-port USB2 expansion card.