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Published on September 2, 2008 By Zargon In WindowBlinds

Please post any issues or questions for the community about WindowBlinds 6.3 here.

WindowBlinds 6.30 Release
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This release for WindowBlinds 6.30 adds new skinning options for layer blend modes. See the betas of SkinStudio 6.30 to check that out.

Support for a number of blending modes for layers
Breadcrumb bar text positioning no longer changes depending on if the window is maximized
Do not shift text when button pressed skin option (edit in SKS)
64 bit has had some tweaks to handle bad sizing of the addressbar
Shadow effect now works on very transparent things like the diamond taskbar clock text.


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on Sep 26, 2008

6,3 broke the XP64 support I'm afraid, the frames around the windows just stopped working.

on Sep 27, 2008

We do not support 64 bit XP as an OS I am afraid, but we are seeing if we can make it install 6.2 files on XP 64 instead.

on Sep 27, 2008

Sorry, but I understood XP x64 support was added with the update to 6.1.

 

 

I wouldn't be bothered with it if it wasn't for that pesky hardware issue those nforce 4 chips are having, preventing me from using Vista.

on Oct 05, 2008

I had to remove 6.3 from my Windows XP 64 bit system, screwed up my toolbars, 100% cpu usage and visual studio crashes.

on Oct 05, 2008

I had to remove 6.3 from my Windows XP 64 bit system, screwed up my toolbars, 100% cpu usage and visual studio crashes.

 

From 2 replies above the one you have posted, by Neil Banfield, WB Dev.

 

We do not support 64 bit XP as an OS I am afraid, but we are seeing if we can make it install 6.2 files on XP 64 instead.

on Oct 05, 2008

plzzz help me i bought wb 6.2 enhanced last month it was working fine last week just to upgrade it i installed impulse and upgraded it then no problem .. i just wanted to try my colours think green n installed ...  theN I  unistalled it ...

along with it.. it seem windowblinds also uninstalled ... then i reinstalled it but i couldnt activate it... when i enter the activation key it says error in activation... after complete uninstallation of mycolours the green icons of all my folders also not  getting chang....  .... plzz somebody help me...

on Oct 05, 2008

i reinstalled my colours ... & uninstalled it.... then installed SD central and installed window blinds from sd central and activated it...  now its working fine for me..............  i would like to suggest all to install windowblinds through stardock central.. and product activation also soo smooth....

on Oct 05, 2008
Well somone better tell Neil that the product page says they do support 64 bit and they did since 6.1 here are the system requirements of the  main page fix it I paid for it.
 
 
System Requirements
Windows Vista (32-bit or 64-bit) or Windows XP/2003
Windows 2000/ME/98 users can use WindowBlinds Classic (v4.6).
Minimum screen resolution: 1024 width and 768 height
60MB free drive space
256MB RAM
on Oct 05, 2008

It doesn't specify about XP 64bit, but it does support Vista 64bit.

on Oct 06, 2008

i have a problem with the right-click menus, they just turn black, on any skin

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 6.3 (build 67 x86)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

(Monitor Plug and Play) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE

Wblind.dll         2008/09/17 08:05:20
Wbsrv.dll         2008/09/16 08:44:42
Wbconfig.exe         2008/09/16 08:44:32
Wbload.exe         2008/04/26 16:14:14
Wbhelp.dll         2008/04/26 16:14:07
Wbui.dll         2008/04/26 16:14:05
Tray.dll              2008/04/26 16:14:21
Screen.exe         2008/07/15 11:31:09

A screenshot of the menu on desktop:

on Oct 06, 2008

What other applications do you have running on your PC?

Do you have ay tools running which make menus semi transparent (apart from WB)?

on Oct 06, 2008

i have vista inspirat 2, but the semi tranparence is disabled, i think the problem has to do with the shell default themes and windowblinds, when i "pause" the processes with the alacrity pc (including the shell themes but no windowblinds) the problem is temporaly solved

on Oct 06, 2008

Im having a problem with it skinning text in IE (see pic) is there a way to stop this without changing the system colors?

on Oct 06, 2008

Why isn't there a "revert to default" button somewhere?
If I install and apply one skin, then does the same with a second and a third, somehow the result is a combination of the three.
It is seriously annoying as currently it's almost needed to reimage the drive between skins to get rid of the garbage inbetween.

For instance, the image below shows a thingy left by either the Azul3D or the Dark Knight skin which for now seems to require
an image restore to remove. (applying another skin doesn't remove it):

Annoying

on Oct 07, 2008

hardalis: that image will change on new explorer windows or when you restart your pc.

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