Styler Toolbar start kills WindowBlinds 5.01

Styler Toolbar start kills WindowBlinds 5.01 - RESOLVED

Published on April 18, 2006 By Hapkido In WindowBlinds

When I reboot my XP (SP-2) machine, everything loads as it should UNTIL I start "Styler Toolbar 1.38". I only have "Styler Toolbar" and not the full program. When the program starts, the Taskbar goes black and the Clock changes display, e.g., from 3 lines to one line. To fix this, I have to unload WindowBlinds, restart it and apply the skin. After that, everything works fine. I've removed Styler from Startup and tried starting it manually after everything else has loaded and I still get the same problem.

Any ideas what the problem is and suggestions for a fix?

THANKS!

Comments

Neil Banfield

on Apr 18, 2006

It sounds like that app is requesting theme changes incorrectly.

Hapkido

on Apr 18, 2006

It sounds like that app is requesting theme changes incorrectly.

Neil, thanks for the incredibly fast reply!! Any suggestions as to what I might do to fix this? or do you suspect that the problem is inherent in Styler Toolbar itself and thus cannot be changed by me?

Hapkido

on Apr 20, 2006

I thought I would share how I have resolved my problem with Styler Toolbar killing WindowBlinds on startup so that if anyone else in the future experiences this problem, they can try the information below as one thing they can do and perhaps resolve it.

The "fix" seems to have been to start the "Theme" service and set it to "Automatic". This particular service I had stopped and and set to "Disabled" quite some time back since it isn't needed when using WindowBlinds and if you don't intend to use the default Windows "Luna" theme. But apparently, it has to be running for Styler to load correctly on startup.

I've rebooted several times now and Styler loads without effecting WindowBlinds. So, at this point, I am considering this issue RESOLVED!!

DIGITZMAN

on Apr 23, 2006

OPTIONS: BECAUSE I USE WINDOWSBLIND5 & STYLER TOLBAR 1.38 AND I NO HAVE A PROBLEMS
options:

install first styler toolbar but no aplys butoons
install before windowsblind5 but no aplys skin
before
aply 1.toolbar buttons & before skin in windowsblind 5
this 2 apps found 100 % a due TE LO ASEGURO
ESPERO QUE ESTO TE AYUDE!

Hapkido

on Apr 23, 2006

DIGITZMAN

That would apply ONLY if one has the FULL "Styler" program. It does not apply when someone is using just the "Styler Toolbar" since the "Themes" section is disabled.

As I wrote above, my particular problem was caused by the "Theme Service" being disabled.

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