I am not using windowblinds anymore

it's to slow

Published on May 9, 2006 By David Lyncheski In Skinning

I am not using windowblinds anymore. It is to slow.
anybody that is using stylexp, where do you get your skins?

Comments (Page 3)

starkers

on May 10, 2006

David....I tried StyleXP before switching to Windowblinds and it is not as effective, certainly no faster. Your issue with slowness is most likely related to the video card, and an upgrade there would most likely resolve that.

Besides, StyleXP is limited in what it can do and doesn't have all the options of Windowblinds and Stardock's suite of programs.....

WB is without question a far superior product to the alternative dll hack with a fancy front end.

Absolutely!!!

WebGizmos

on May 10, 2006

I haven't even updated my drivers since I reformatted.

I'm presently using the 84.21 driver version and it works fine in case your considering updating it.

WebGizmos

on May 10, 2006

And as far as StyleXp vs WindowBlinds...I only had to see one word which made me decide what I was going to use...hack. There are enough problems in pc's regarding .dll files...so why would anyone want to add to them?

Bichur

on May 10, 2006

I'm presently using the 84.21 driver version

Mine all say 6.14.10.4523

WebGizmos

on May 10, 2006

Huh? Where does it say that? You should have an Nvidia Folder that would show your driver version listed...do you have one of them?

PoSmedley

on May 10, 2006

Where did he go? I thought he wanted help?

David Lyncheski

on May 10, 2006

i am going to try to upgrade my vid card. i hope that works.

clwoods: i did not have stylexp and windowblinds installd at the same time.

Bichur

on May 10, 2006

Huh? Where does it say that?

when I right click the desktop > properties > settings > advanced > GeForce4 tab

You should have an Nvidia Folder that would show your driver version listed...do you have one of them?

Did a search for nvidia - nothing came up
show all hidden/sytems files is checked

yrag

on May 10, 2006

Mine all say 6.14.10.4523

= 45.23 (dated circa 1999)

aufisch

on May 10, 2006

You would be far better off to use Windowblinds 4.5 instead of StyleXP, if you can't afford that new Graphics-Card. I am thinking Toolbaricons, Shell-Styles, Animations.....all things that StyleXP can't do but WindowBlinds 4.5 does!

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David Lyncheski

on May 11, 2006

well thank you for your help!!

But i patched the uxtheme.dll to allow skins. maybe i will get Nvidia geforce 5500, but for now i will use windows theme services.

Jafo

on May 11, 2006

But i patched the uxtheme.dll to allow skins.

That means you are no longer actually using the 'Windows theme services' but a back-yarder's hacked version. Good luck with that...

Keikonium

on May 11, 2006

look at this screen https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=16047&LibID=13&comments=1 Link you can see the problem.

Thats my screen

. I have experienced NO problems with windowblinds

. I get the occasional border problem when I haven't restarted my computer in days, and I do lots of heavy work (dreamweaver, photoshop, etc.).

What exactly is the problem in my image

Keikonium

on May 11, 2006

Oh, if I could read I would have seen it was about the start button thing? Thats cause I was using tclock (thats what I use to skin my clock) to make the taskbar a little more transparent for the screenshot

. My start button doesn't normally overlay if I don't use extra transparancy:

. I use nVidia 5200

Threi

on May 11, 2006

*edit* = 4.6

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