What is the date of wbload.exe in your WindowBlinds directory?

Also what version of Theme Manager do you have installed?

I had this problem with IconPackager. I uninstalled IP, reinstalled WB and everything was fine. Am I right in saying that Theme Manager isn't compatible with WIndowBlinds 5?

I had same experience. I uninstalled Theme Manager thru SDC (including all themes, files, whatever), then reinstalled it AFTER WB5 was installed. Everything worked fine after that.

I'll try that...

Ok that didnt work , any other ideas?

Also all my icons in the left pane of SDC are now missing and I cant access the forums through SDC anymore

installed an older version of SDC which fixed the problems I was having with it.

Theme Manager is still not working properly. I have another theme manager issue I'm going to search the forums for. I'll post it in another thread if I don't find it.

Has anyone been able to solve this issue I'm had the same problem reinstalled everything and now the theme manager now didn't skin the new window blinds without the notification above.

If you have OD, try installing the latest beta build of WB from OD and see if that helps.

Where you d/l the latest beta build ...the one from download.com is till showing 11/28/2005

Beta builds are downloaded through the SDC browser.

Thank you

Nope...it says there is an update, BUT I click it and it does nothing...I am only running the trial though..

As far as I can tell this issue has not yet been addressed.

WB 5.00[b].009
TM 2.24.040

I'm getting the same problem. Some notes on my situation:

I am a recent purchaser of ObjectDesktop, a Christmas gift for myself.

I normally run with a Restricted User account. This may matter, but I'm not sure.

I have installed WB 5, not WB 4.

I get the same bubble message.

Apparently my problem is only with WB visual styles. Cursors and Icons download and install correctly with ThemeMgr.

Theme Manager's download.log has messages like this:

-- [AlienMindII] ----------------------------------------------------
Url: https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?SkinID=3322&LibID=1
File: C:\DOCUME~1\NIGHTB~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\~thememgr\WindowBlinds\
Result: Http error (code: -11, Error creating/opening the target file)

Afterwards, WB 5 shows an "Unknown" skin with no preview.

In C:\Program Files' Stardock and WinCustomize folders, I added Modify permissions for (Restricted) Users. This helped with other problems. And I checked to make sure I had write permissions for the Temp WindowBlinds folder.

I can manually download and install WB visual styles outside of ThemeMgr. I currently have the basic Aquarium theme installed. ThemeMgr cannot download new WB visual styles, but it can use existing styles.

Everything else I tried has worked: individual WB visual styles, icons, cursors, DesktopX (for Aquarium), and bootskins (of course installed with Administrator).

I searched all the documentation I could find for this problem. If somebody wants to tell me "RTFM," please tell me where the "M" is! This problem isn't a showstopper; I'm not going to ask for my money back. But it IS inconvenient.

Also, WB reports this:

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(Sony Notebook LCD (1024x768)) 1 is attached to MOBILITY RADEON 9200

Wblind.dll 2005/11/28 13:57:10
Wbsrv.dll 2005/11/28 15:52:00
Wbconfig.exe 2005/11/28 16:19:00
Wbload.exe 2005/11/25 19:30:58
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/11/20 12:23:40
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26

-nightbird

Its a bug in ThemeManager.  For some reason it thinks WB5 is WB4 and is using older methods to start WB which are no longer supported.