Where? Installed and all I see is the StylesXP in my resources\themes folder. I'm guessing the WB version should be installed into the root of WB.

WindowBlinds shellstyle bug is now fixed. Please download it again.

Reading the previous posts I got the destinct impression that this theme not only worked with StylesXP, but with WindowBlinds.

Does this theme have a WindowBlinds counter part, or is it strictly for StylesXP. If it does have a WindowsBlinds counter part, where does the installer place the folder and what is the name of the folder.

Thanks...

What I can't edit my post.....

I see there are FOUR of these theme files associated with this theme developer.

Vista Visual Styles Pack - Version 3.0
Vista nLite/RVM Pack - Version 3.0
Vista Trans Pack - Lite - Version 3.0
Vista Transformation Pack - Version 3.0

Seeing that I'm having problems getting the WindowBlinds theme, I'm assuming that I've downloaded the incorrect file. The link I followed was from a previous post in this thread which lead me to the 'Vista Visual Styles Pack 3.0.zip', and it looks like this particular file ONLY contains StylesXP themes. I do apoligize if I'm not seeing the WindowBlinds files as I was told it automatically installed the WindowBlinds version along with the StylesXP, and I can not see it anyewhere.

To Desktop X: Please post the correct file location so people NEW to this thread are NOT going on a wild goose chase for files that are NOT related. When you post a NEW update would you KINDLY post a link to the correct file.

I'll tell you how I installed the WB theme.

I downloaded Vista Visual Styles Pack 3.0.zip, extracted it and ran the Vista Visual Styles Pack 3.0.exe and it first of all installed the normal themes (the ones that work with the patched uxtheme.dll and StyleXP), I then got a dialogue box saying "extracting" and then a popup in my status bar from WindowBlinds saying that a new skin called Aero Style had been installed, and that I should "click here" to apply it. I clicked "here", WindowBlinds opened and I applied the skin.

The WB skin is installed in C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\Aero Style for me.

EDIT: He did post the correct link o_O when you download the Vista Visual Styles Pack 3.0.zip and extract it, and then run the exe, the WB theme is installed.

Yes it did. But I still prefer Jemaho and KoL.

I personally prefer Window X's work.

I never liked how KoL's taskbar had a weird bluey tinge, it wasn't blackblack. Windows X's is.

Regardless, great work by Windows X.

Let me tell you one thing, I remake wb5 skin from KoL's work but not KoL's mod since almost everything are remaked stuffs. I'm pretty sure that lots of ppl will say "The best vista work ever seen" if KoL releases it.

Ok, It does look like the installer shows 5 seperate themes being installed, and I'm guessing that 4 are for StylesXP and the other is for WB5. However, it's still not installing the one for WB5. I guessing that the modified UXtheme.dll may be preventing the WB5 theme from installing. The installer may see the modified UXTheme.dll and just quit. WB5 never tells me that there is a new WB5 theme being installed, andf I do have it running at the time.

Could someone make the WB5 theme available outside the installer?

Moderator: I can't edit my posts.... Uppon entering the topic there WAS an 'Edit' tab that allowed me to pull my post in but when I went to save it I was told that I did not have permission to save it.



Ok, It does look like the installer shows 5 seperate themes being installed, and I'm guessing that 4 are for StylesXP and the other is for WB5. However, it's still not installing the one for WB5.

I removed the modified UXTheme.dll and created a path of "C:\Program Files\Stardock\Object Desktop\WindowBlinds\". However I have WB5 installed somewhere else. After rebooting, I run the "Vista Visual Styles Pack 3.0.exe" file and the installer still refuses to install the WB5 theme. It does install the 4 themes in my resources/themes folder for StylesXP.

Could someone make the WB5 theme available outside the installer?

Maybe the problem is that you have WB installed in a different directory to the one the installer looks for? Could be a possibility.

IIRC when I installed the extract dialogue showed a bit of where the WB theme was being installed to. Maybe try and decipher where it's being installed from that?

That's the problem. I guess I was expecting the installer to be smart, and know the location.

I can't download this from the link on page 1.It says database error or something.

Can someone mirror this?

TIA.

can someone post the WB5 file? i'm having the same problem.

EDIT: i figured out a way to do it. i created a Stardock/Object Dock/WindowBlinds directory, then copied my actual WB directory to it to fool the installer into thinking that the whole program was there. then it installed it to my actual WB folder. go figure.

so far i like it, but mine still shows the icons for "my computer" and "my documents" and all that.

run it with /x argument in Run... and extract wba file.

thx

btw, your WB5 skin is the BEST!!! much much better than Kol's. thanks for the hard work.

glad you like that.

Great work!! thanks for sharing this

So where is this version 4.0 at?!? Can't wait for the VS pack without the transformations for this too...

Excellent!!! I absolutely find the Aero Style (Vista - Beta 2) as my Favorite Style... However I have one tiny problem which drives me a little insane. The problem I am having is that I use a few different Chat/Game apps (Xfire, Trillian, Etc...) that use a black background as the chat window and any URL's/Links that are typed in them Turn up Black. I've found that changing the Display Properties/Appearance/Advanced/Item: Window - Font Color from black to any other color it will fix the problem but then create and entirely new problem where In any other part of windows my text has also changed color so It's a dead end fix (Super Run on sentence ). I don't seem to have this problem with any of the other visual styles I've tried but yours is the only one I've found so far that I like. Is there anything or any way I can fix this myself or would it require a wait on the next update of the vvsp?

Once again, Thanks for sharing this with us

FredSanfrd, could you attach screenshot about your bug so I can findout how it is?

On: Aero Style (Vista - Beta 2)
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mtmmp/Stuff/screen01.jpg

On: Aero Style (Vista - Beta 2) - Highlighting the URL/Link
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mtmmp/Stuff/screen03.jpg

On: Vista 2.0
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mtmmp/Stuff/screen04.jpg

On: Luna Element 4
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mtmmp/Stuff/screen02.jpg

On: Default XP
http://home.nyc.rr.com/mtmmp/Stuff/screen05.jpg


If I change this Option and choose another color

It will show up but also change all other windows apps although On other various skins/styles, that option is not needed to be changed and does not effect the URL.

I just found something else if this is any help at all...

I choose the Default Windows XP Style and set it to Silver the same thing will happen. So maybe it has to do with a setting when making the Style color scheme? Just figured I would add that before I forget

it's default theming engine that does. MS never fix that lol.

Is there any known work around? I really like this Style but it's a no use for me kind of thing as other styles are displaying the URL's/Links just fine.

About the Xfire urls, I get them blacked out even when I use Luna. I think it's a bug for Xfire because most of my friends on xfire can't see the urls and they dont even know what a visual style is.

Xfire has very little info on it but here is there FAQ on the issue:

XFire FAQ

Clip from the FAQ:



Click on the pic's in my previous posts and you'll see I and a few other people I got into this Styles thing (including the person that got me into it) are all having the same issue in the same way so there has to be some way around it because other Styles and the default windows one doesn't reproduce it for us unless we change the color scheme.

I think I might actually be giving it a go on my own and see if I can make a Style like this one if I have the time to. It's just strange how certain Styles do not have this at all and others do... there has to be a way around it as a lot of the other Styles I've tried just don't have this for me. It drives me a little nuts because people on xfire are always sending me links and 1/2 the times I don't even know it.

hmm can not install this , did the patch thing, rs my computer, then install this, but nothing comes up in "apperance"

The themes are pretty nice, but unfortunatly it doesn't work with the Vista Start utility because it locks to the postion of the start button in the YAFVC2 theme, that's how you can emulate Vista start buttons under XP!

I dont get the glass effects..

You need WindowBlinds 5 Enhanced for that.

cool!!
nice job
thx

cool!!
nice job
thx

Any way to fix this start menu problem? It happens on my Dell Latitude D610. I am running it at 1400 x1050 resolution.

I think it has to do with the screen size. No matter what resolution I set it to it still does it. If I use my external monitor at 1280x1024 then it displays correctly.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'll look for the method to solve it. btw, here's new update for beta 2.

Any idea when you may be able to get the update and fix for this issue, it is a pain in the butt.

Cliff

Looks great

Great skin WinX! Just a few concerns:
I dont get the skinned right click menus, or the glass effect. Will version 4 have those effects for non-windowblinds 5 enhanced users? Thanks.

only 5 enhanced.

Um, Windows X, I emailed you before but I dont know if you got my email. How come in your transfomation pack I can't get the transparent effect? I downloaded this one hoping to get it. I havent tried it yet though. ....And if theres something else I need to download to get the effect can you show me where and what to download? Please?

You need WindowBlinds 5 enhanced installed to use glass skin.

Great! Thanks! I originally started searching for "Transparency" insted of Glass. Cause I didn't know what it meant. And then when I heard about this windowblinds I had no idea it was like style XP.

Anyway, I got enhanced after a LOOOONNNNGGG time of trying to get it to "work". So now I have the glass effect and I must say, its great! . However... I just wanna ask one last question. Before I downloaded these seperate packs and the enhanced I used your Transformation Pack. I loved it how when you went to say "My Documents" there was a aqua blue pane at the BOTTOM of the window; showing all the details of the folder and files. Now, unfortunatly, there is a narrow bar representing that at the TOP of the window. I cannot find which theme I origianlly had it on. I want to change it back to that theme and still have the glass effect. I remember that the title bar was white and had this cool streak going through it halfway (Now its a black title bar when maximised).

I thought it was Vista beta 2, but when I change it to that it still appears to be the same.... I dunno if it even changed. Cause when I went via display> appearences, I cannot prieview the image, its blank. Yet also when I set it to any theme, my computer "changes" it however the display panel is frozen - blank - nothing. And I have to close it and do "dont send error report" thing.

SO! I don't know what is happening or what I have done wrong

wait for 4.0

Uninstall WindowBlinds - it causes the display properties to mess up (the cracked versions of WB, at least)

Sounds great

Will 4.0 have an update of existing VS or does it include new Vista-VS ?

Keep up the good work ...

i can't enable the GLASS

my video card is "sis 730" with 128MB share memory

please help me!

Is that related to that? .... I thought you could just tell me which theme it was in your transformation pack which put the bar at the bottom. Or... is it some codeing or something.



Like everyone said to me when I was desperate, You need "Windowblinds Enhancement 5", it's like style xp (a program) and it allows you to theme your windows. When you download this back from Windows X, you apply it through that program and it allows you to see the glass effect



Really? That's not fair. What happens if I left it there? Cause I really don't wanna lose the glass effect and stuff . I don't know if I mentioned it, but I know it's basicly impossible then to change any kinda theme through my display properties. Probebly due to windows blinds. The only way I can see the theme is I think through apply... But to tell the true there is no difference between that theme and the current theme I have on .

I just love this theme so much I don't wanna lose it. I should just go and get windows vista. I've been trying so much to imatate it... lol it's hard with a laptop cause it is so incredibly slow, especially with a mock windows media player 11. (Skins and widgets).

then buy it of cracked version screwed.

Lots of people are having trouble getting the alpha effects, including myself. You are tempting us with screens then not giving us the needed information to achieve it, at least not what we can figure out. I'm assuming from your various posts before now that it requires WindowBlinds 5, which I downloaded. However, I can't get the alpha to work with your skins. I very much want the look from those screens that you provided. Please give a more direct explaination of how to get such a look.

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...=post&id=150936

Also, what will 4.0 have and why will it be worth waiting for?

If i got windowblinds would they work with uxtheme patcher?