I want to uninstall windowblinds as it is not working with windows10 and it is not even letting me do that. I tried using Revo uninsataller but with no success.

kkunderwood ... if you look closely at the various builds/releases of Windows 10 you will see significant differences within the SHELL.  Stardock's programs work with the shell directly.  They are NOT 'products' in the same sense as a release of Photoshop/whatever - they can almost always be run under a compatibility mode whereas SHELL applications generally cannot.

Now that Win 10 has formally made it to 'RTM' it can only now be [reasonably at least] trusted to be a FINISHED shell that Stardock can work with/for their applications.

Again, with your 'perfectly reasonable suggestion' about arbitrary locations - doing so causes 2 issues. 1. it is against the 3rd party programmers' policy [from Microsoft] as to data placement, and 2. shell applications displaced from the OS can affect OS performance adversely.

Yup. The a little weird, but my WB seem to be working. I just d/l'ed a fresh blind, it auto installed via "edge". and I was able to use it right away..gonna check windows  fx next.

ok, so windows fx does not seem to be working

Thanks Philly0381..and now I see that WB is not working properly. The task bar is solid black no matter which blind I choose....call me a slow learner..

Finally stardock came to my rescue. They sent me a purging tool which uninstalled windowblinds. Now my taskbar icons are arranged properly and also time starts showing in taskbar which was another problem btw.

File Browser

• The best-known function of explorer.exe is that of the file browser. Click on "Windows Explorer" in the Start menu or "My Computer" on your desktop, and explorer.exe launches the operating system's main file browser. If you're looking for a file, moving files around or deleting files, odds are you're doing it with explorer.exe. But file browsing isn't all explorer.exe does.

Web Browser

• During the late 1990s, Microsoft integrated its file browser, explorer.exe, and its Internet browser. As such, during this period of history Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer were essentially the same program; you could type a Web address into Windows Explorer, and it would load as though in Internet Explorer. This integration was mainly intended to combat the antitrust lawsuit Microsoft was fighting at the time; the change integrated Internet Explorer into the operating system, bolstering Microsoft's argument that Internet Explorer is an essential part of the Windows operating system and as such must be included by default. In Windows XP, Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer were separated; today Internet Explorer runs as iexplorer.exe.

Desktop Shell

• Know it or not, explorer.exe is also the main desktop shell for Windows. This means your taskbar, your desktop icons, the Start menu and any shortcut bars you use are all handled by explorer.exe. If you kill explorer.exe, all these functions will disappear, although your other programs will all continue to run just fine.

^ being windowblinds is a shell app and explorer.exe plays a big part in functioning things that windowblinds would theme not to mention a good majority of your os and shell?

how exactly does this work?

I was actually rather sad when I uninstalled WB and some of my other Stardock products but I knew it was the right thing to do with a brand new OS coming up.  I am now using Start 10 (latest download) which is working beautifully.  My Start Menu looks great! 

I wish there was a way to make my taskbar look as good as my Start Menu.  It would wonderful if there was an app to fix that darned taskbar OR is there way to change the default black to another color?  As it is, changing just adds color over the top of it but using Personalization and/or Color and Appearance (different options) does not do a very good job at all.  Here is my wish - and that's all it is.  I wish we had a Start Taskbar too. 

Quoting NossieUK,

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not trying to be a bitch, but this isn't really much more of a work around than clicking uninstall

Actually, a lot of things still have the skin applied. It is an acceptable solution for me until Stardock does something to make WB work on Win10. YMMV but this makes the taskbar look good again running a skin.

There are many many amateur developers out there with fully functional Windows 10 theme suites & software.  The problem is, with Microsoft's new "Windows as a service" model (meaning frequent major updates every few months), any given update can completely change the way the UI is compiled.  For example, the dozens of fully integrated Windows 10 themes I've found in the last few days all do NOT work since the November TH2 update.  Something about the way MS re-configured the Aero interface.  And the various 'theme enabling' hacks are currently causing system crashes on systems now running TH2 (build 10586).  

Now, taht's one thing for an amateur artist who just gives away their themes (as professionally polished as they may be), but a company like Stardock has to be careful because it has PAYING customers to answer to.  I'd rather they figure out a way to make "Windowblinds 10" fully reliable before they dub it stable & effective enough to ask us to PAY for it.  I'll give Stardock credit for not rushing some half-baked patch of WB8 to market and calling it "updated" just to make a quick buck; they're apparently trying to develop something we can count on, or they're just no longer interested in the WB revenue stream and putting all their energy into other projects now.

BUT, having said that, Stardock would also do well to realize that they struck gold with "Start 8".  With that one little product, Stardock went from an underground "nerds" thing to almost a household name.  They better come up with something more intriguing than the same old object dock and start menu patch before they lose the public's attention again. People aren't half as annoyed by the default Windows 10 interface, give them another 3 months to get used to it (or MS to develop more theming options themselves) and Windowblinds 10 will fall back into obscurity among an obsessive few loyalists.

Just my 2 cents.  I look forward to NOT having to stare at a blinding white background in File Explorer again soon.  But as time passes I'm less and less interested in the hassle of looking for an alternative and eventually I, and 99.9% of everybody else, will just learn to deal with it.