WB5 won't load on startup! Please help

Published on November 25, 2005 By chilly_james In WindowBlinds

Hi there, i'm having problems with WB5 beta 2 (4.99.006) I've just purchaced object desktop, mainly because of WB5 to be honest, and it doesn't even load on startup, or manually, so i'm a bit annoyed!

The problem is that every time i reboot the computer I get an error message saying:
'WindowBlinds cannot start'
'WindowBlinds is not installed properly.
If you have just installed WindowBlinds, please ensure you rebooted after the installation as the installer suggested.'

I have rebooted, re-installed (to different directories aswel), and rebooted some more but no luck. I thought it might be due to Panda Internet Security 2006, as i read something about conflicts on these forums, but even after uninstalling that it still won't load. I have only formatted my computer last week so I dont think there are any conflicts - my only running programs are activesync and nvidia tray apps.

Please help as i'm dying to give WB5 a whirl, it looks great!!

ps my email is chilly_2002 at msn dot com

Comments (Page 2)

Neil Banfield

on Nov 26, 2005

Open RegEdit.

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify

Right click on Notify and select permissions. What does it show?

Also what sub keys do you have under Notify? I.e. wlballon etc.

chilly_james

on Nov 26, 2005

Neil,

The permissions show:

Administrators
CREATOR OWNER
SYSTEM
Users

Permissions for administrators - full control: allow, read: allow

Subkeys are:

crypt32chain
cryptnet
cscdll
MCPClient
ScCertProp
Schedule
sclgntfy
SensLogn
termsrv
WB
WBSrv
wlballoon

Cheers

ps just for the record, I uninstalled WB5 earlier today.

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Neil Banfield

on Nov 26, 2005

What do you see in WB & WBSrv keys?

schneidog

on Nov 27, 2005

I am getting the latest version to load, but I cannot get skins to apply! They default to the "Windows Standard" everytime after I reboot. I then can open Windowblinds and apply a skin manually. This only started when i upgraded to the latest rc.

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