i also had the problem of not being able to open the config window after updating, opened SDC and it reported that windowblinds wasn't even installed, i ran the update again, rebooted again and everything went back to normal. It's now reporting the correct version in the system info tab on WBconfig to. yay

I wonder why the standalone setup file is so much larger (at 23 Mb) than the one for version 6.02 (at 17 Mb)? There doesn't seem to be that much more stuff in it.

This is exactly what happened in my case also.

Updated thru Impulse...no problems. Seems that everyone reporting this issue updated thru SDC. Just an observation.

I updated through Impulse (Slowwww) first and wbconfig.exe could not be found. So I ran SDC and the update was there. I did the update through SDC and WB launched fine.

Update- Tried this yet again. Same issue. Rebooted, but then let it install through sdc (although the files/folder was there anyway) After 2nd install, rebooted, wbconfig in sys tray was able to start...but.... All of my darned skins were lost! I had 4 total after all of that.

Explorer Backgrounds finally work in XP, but there some limitations. You can only choose the images which came with the program. Unlike Vista, which can use any BMP or PNG image. I tried applying an image for the first time in XP, and my computer rebooted automatically without warning. After rebooting, voila, it's there.

Now Windowblinds should not only allow ANY image to be used as an explorer background, but also allow other image file types to be supported such as JPG and TIFF. I hope to see an enhancement to this feature in the future.

Well after a few tries I got WB6.1 to run. I ran the update from Impulse and that didn't go exactly as planned. I told it that I wanna reboot later, which I usually do with any programs or updates that needs a reboot. So after manually reboot, WB tells me I gotta reboot again. Did that. Same thing happens. I tell it to go to Process mode or something and it doesn't work. I uninstalled it, reboot, installed WB6.1, and it runs. Then rebooted once more to make sure everything runs and is loaded/installed correctly and it seems to be smooth sailing from there. Now I have another problem... but that's for a different product altogether so I'll post that elsewhere. I can't comment on the new features in 6.1 but so far so good. Now if I can just get Windows to load my wallpaper correctly... (I want my Horo background dang it!)

Option to force start button to the middle of skins. Like vista default skin, if use doublesized taskbar, not overlay.....
How to set that?

my advise on this latest update is to stear well clear of it.i experienced most of the above problems,but in the end had to do a restore to get W/Bs to work again.Not very impressed with SDC at the moment.

after reinstall, figured that, cool feature

New Start button feature on my current WIP. Great Job Neil   


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your current wip awesome !

This was not a fun upgrade. I did the upgrade through SDC, and I lost wbconfig. I figured that had to be some kind of bug, so I checked this post and found out I wasn't alone. I opened SDC again and saw that it showed that WB wasn't even installed, so I installed it, then rebooted. When the WB configuration window opened after rebooting, I'd apparently lost all of my skins, only 4 were showing. I was just about beside myself, because I had so many skins, and I didn't want to spend hours reinstalling them. So I decided to take a chance and I uninstalled WB, rebooted, then reinstalled WB. The good news is that this install was much different from the first, it took a lot longer and seemed to be doing everything it needed to do. Then I rebooted again, the configuration window came up, and voila, all of my skins were now visible. But none of them would load right...I still basically had Windows Classic showing, no matter what I did and which skin I tried applying. I had a moment of wondering if this upgrade was making WB useful for only Vista (I am a stubborn gal who's holding onto XP until I have no choice), so decided to do a System Restore and roll everything back. I only had a System Checkpoint to choose from, so I told System Restore to roll back to that checkpoint. When it rebooted, it told me it couldn't restore anything because there had been no changes to my computer. But suddenly WB was working just fine. I opened SDC and saw that I did indeed have the most recent version installed. So breathed a sigh of relief, and it looks like everything is okay. But boy oh boy, this upgrade was a MESS to get through. Other people who see this thread before upgrading might want to wait until the bugs are worked out.

Rutabaga64,I agree with all you say about your attempts to upgrade to this latest version of W/Bs,i went through all that trauma trying to upgrade on my vista PC. I dont see many replies from stardock over these issues, its obvious from the posts that all is not well with this upgrade. I second your closing comments about not upgrading till all the bugs are worked out.