WINDOWBLINDS BETA FOR VISTA ARRIVES!

Reply #1 November 15, 2006 10:14 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Just installed on Vista Build 5744 looking great!!!!!

Thanks

Reply #2 November 15, 2006 10:57 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thank You Jesus...(and Stardock!)

Reply #3 November 15, 2006 11:20 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok...you can't see it but I am doing a happy dance. Too bad that I am still at work for another 2 hours.

Reply #4 November 15, 2006 11:22 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

/me rushes off to give it a go...

Reply #5 November 15, 2006 11:24 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

/me rushes off to bed so I can give it a go when I get to work in the morning.

Reply #6 November 15, 2006 11:26 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

So WindowBlinds 5.49 is only for Pc's that have Vista installed? So if that is true it looks like if you don't have a vista machine you won't be doing any WindowBlind updates. I would think these WindowBlind versions are going to get installed on the wrong pc's. (My old Inspiron laptop won't be able to run Vista darn it!)

Reply #7 November 15, 2006 11:28 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

I have 5.49 Running on a xp box.

Reply #8 November 15, 2006 11:32 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

So WindowBlinds 5.49 is only for Pc's that have Vista installed?

No.  I'm running it on XP right now.

 

Reply #9 November 16, 2006 12:06 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeap, all seems to works fine on XP. woooohoooooo!!

Very nice blur effect on skin change!!

Reply #10 November 16, 2006 12:20 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

 

Reply #11 November 16, 2006 12:41 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

ooooo fantastic jump for joy wow exitment will kill me ty stardock

Reply #12 November 16, 2006 12:47 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hey I got it switched to beta on XP but I keep hearing beeps all the time. Is that supposed to happen? Never happened before with 5.1.

Reply #13 November 16, 2006 12:53 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Giving it a shot right now. Works pretty well, even the transparent taskbar is 'live'

So far the only issues I've found are that changing the skin caused explorer to die (got the vista 'something bad happened to explorer' dialog ), and Office 2007, while it skins well, the titlebar buttons don't work, and there are some artifacts in the client area (on Excel at least). No show stoppers, though, and I'm pretty sure most of these will be fixed in future releases.

Great stuff so far!

Reply #14 November 16, 2006 1:16 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wanna hear something funny? I thought it was my laptop making the beeps when installing the beta. Well, I walked the kitchen to cook me some tator tots to snack on and forgot that my cellphone was in my pocket. I heard the beeps again and thought it was in my head and then pulled out my cellphone and the battery is dying. I have to recharge it. I thought that was funny. So it has nothing to do with windowblinds 5.5 at all.

Reply #15 November 16, 2006 2:01 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

@ Citizen dustyshot: lmao hahaha

Reply #16 November 16, 2006 2:01 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

The ol' tater tot trick

Reply #17 November 16, 2006 2:10 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Aleatoric:

I can confirm both of your bugs so far.

The explorer dying does happen for me and so does the titlebar button issue in Office 2k7

Reply #18 November 16, 2006 3:10 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

I'm running WindowBlinds 5.49(c) on Windows Vista Beta Pre-RC and (so far!) no problems at all. Thanks Stardock! God how i missed WindowBlinds!

Reply #19 November 16, 2006 7:41 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

All that this program needs now in terms of users of Windows Vista, is a Vista-exclusive skin. I actually quite like Aero, but there are one or two little bits of it I don't like.
Thanks Stardock for a wonderful program! Any chance of improving Windows Vista Explorer?

Reply #20 November 16, 2006 7:55 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Running this now, looks great   

The only problem is, since installing this, I've been getting this funny burning smell   

Reply #21 November 16, 2006 7:56 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

...oh cripes! I forgot the dinner was on...   

Reply #22 November 16, 2006 8:45 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Well---- I installed it on my version of Vista and it crashed explorer on the first skin change!

I restarted and then it hung my desktop prior to loading all startup items.

Third restart and now all seems ok- so far.

Only thing is I run webshots on my desktop and on every restart windowblinds applies its wallpaper and I can't seem to find out how to stop that.

All in all I plan on using it and seeing how it goes.

Reply #23 November 16, 2006 9:00 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

DUH!!!!! on me I fingered out how to stop the wallpaper loading-duh

Now all seems to be GREAT!!!!!

Other than the initial hiccups it now be great- THANKS a bazillion Stardock

Reply #24 November 16, 2006 9:16 AM from WinCustomize Forums Top

Work fine & go fast !!!

(In " Change languaje settings" when click on spanish ... nothing happens... but I think is a Beta and it´s normal...only english in this BETA... )

Reply #25 November 16, 2006 12:24 PM from WinCustomize Forums Top

No issues on my machine. I'm running on 5744 as well. Very nice.