WindowBlinds 7 Beta Bug reports

Published on June 4, 2009 By ZubaZ In WindowBlinds

The new WindowBlinds beta has been released. This build focuses on working with Windows 7 (and maintaining functionality in Vista and XP).

Known issues:

Compact start menus are right out.
Paint and Write titlebars are . . not right.

Post anything that looks odd. Make sure to give us your WB system information from the WB app, your OS (including 32 or 64 bit), and if it's hard to explain (or even if it isn't) a screenshot.

WindowBlinds v6.80.TBD (New BETA Build) 9/21/2009 - Coming MONDAY

Windows XP toolbar and animations settings are back under Settings.
Windows Vista sidebar skin settings are back under Settings.
Windows Explorer backgrounds tab has been added for Windows XP, Vista AND 7.
NEW! COOL! Textures tab added!
- Allows users to apply a textured effect to your skins titlebar, taskbar and startmenu.
- For skin authors, there are now three new sections in the skin to easily apply a texture to frames, taskbar or the startmenu without worrying about cutting it up and aligning it correctly.
- Now skins can also include their own textured versions to show in the skin list.
Added support for enlarged menus on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Some additional skin sections added for Vista / 7 including a new shadow section.
Fixed a bugs where the start button was clipping on multiple monitor Windows 7 boxes.
A feature that allows users to drag wallpapers to the large preview area and it will copy them into the wallpapers folder

Kirk Windisch

Software Development

Comments (Page 7)

Moletai

on Aug 01, 2009

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 3.7
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 3.9

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.0 (build 176 x86 - Vista Edition)

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC
WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC
(ThinkPad Display 1280x800) 1 is attached to Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family

Wblind.dll     2009/06/25 18:39:20
Wbsrv.dll     2009/06/25 18:39:33
Wbconfig.exe     2009/06/17 23:52:02
Wbload.exe     2009/06/02 21:39:14
Wbhelp.dll     2009/03/25 00:04:07
Tray.dll          2009/03/25 00:04:21
Wbload.dll          2009/03/17 16:36:28
Screen.exe     2009/06/04 19:48:09

Moletai

on Aug 01, 2009

What is even more interesting, with the the leo skin you can drag opened .pdf file window anywhere as if this was not maximized. same behavour with Irfanview program window...

other skins seem do no do that way...

Mirsguy

on Aug 01, 2009

No more half start buttons! Yay!

Nevermind. It's still happening.

That was short lived.

Mark Phelps

on Aug 04, 2009

Have another thread on WB 7 beta related problems that just seems to have died:

See https://forums.wincustomize.com/359798

Also, have read other threads that say a way to fix this get-nothing-but-windows-classic problem is to select Aero and then select a different skin. Well, since my machine doesn't support Aero, that does nothing either.

Sent email to Stardock support over a week ago, have received nothing back, not even a reply.

BTW, installed WB 7 on the same machine in the Vista OS (machine is dual-boot) and it works great. So, it's related specifically to Windows 7.

So, that's it now? I'm simply out my purchase?

Wizard1956

on Aug 04, 2009

So, that's it now? I'm simply out my purchase?

With a member number as low as yours,you should know how betas work by now. To refresh your memory,they build,we test,they fix it,we test some more,repeat until ready for release.

Mark Phelps

on Aug 04, 2009

Wizard1956

reply 20

With a member number as low as yours,you should know how betas work by now. To refresh your memory,they build,we test,they fix it,we test some more,repeat until ready for release.

Yeah, I know how betas work -- have been involved in lots of them. And in other cases, when you participate in the testing effort, and you go to the trouble to send a trouble report (in this case, an email) to the support folks, you at least get the decency of a reply.

And, while I don't expect anyone to drop everything they're doing to jump on this and fix it -- at least a response indicating that they got my email, whether or not it's a know problem (and if there's a fix in the works), and what additional info they need from me -- would have been nice.

ZubaZ

on Aug 05, 2009

Locking this post as we move to Beta2.

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