Hey all!
I've been a Stardock / Object Desktop user since 2007. I've had great experiences with most of the suite since the beginning. I use WindowsFX, Fences - Fences 6, Start11v2 and all of its previous iterations, DeskScapes, Multiplicity, ObjectDock and WindowsBlinds off and on (more on that coming) on a regular basis and have them installed on my daily driver Windows install (currently Windows 11 Version Build 26100). Somewhere along the lines, WindowsBlinds has become one I just don't install anymore because it just regularly crashes my system. Windows 8 maybe? Windows 7? I'm not sure. But it's super frustrating. I just installed it again, once again hoping that it would be working good, and still I cannot even use chrome and/or Firefox because it makes them unusable -- and has been since as I mentioned before Windows 8 maybe. It's not hardware related because I've built 3 different systems along the way, with various graphics cards and processors and it's always the same results.
If I load up chrome, and go to any website with video, my whole browser flashes 3-4 times and the video errors out. YouTube, Twitch, Reddit, anything. I've tried different styles, including only using the StarDock supplied styles with the initial install and always get the same behavior.
Is WindowsBlinds just a thing of the past? Trying to search chrome here on the forums there seems to be conflicting information on how to even skin it and whether its even skinnable anymore. Some mods saying Chrome isn't skinnable at all in Windows 11, but the StarDock official website lists a "workaround" that seems to do absolutely nothing.
My current hardware: Asus ROG Strix X670e-eAMD Ryzen 9 7950x3DGigabyte RTX 4090 Xtreme Waterforce32gb G.SKILL 6400C32 RGBSamsung 32" Odyssey Neo G8k
Am I doing something wrong or is WindowsBlinds just a fond memory of windows past?
Looking back at your video above, your Chrome running with few Extensions. Could be one of those Extensions is conflicting with WB. Have you tried looking into it?
Thank you,
Basj,Stardock Community Assistant
Looking back at your video above, your Chrome running with few Extensions. Could be one of those Extensions is conflicting with WB. Have you tried looking into it?Thank you,Basj,Stardock Community Assistant
Disabling all plugins reveals no change. I also find it quite ironic, that as we're talking about this software that appears to be dying, that the amount of time I can access these forums due to them being unreachable is also quite funny.
Quite a few really good people have been working long hours to recover this place we call 'home away from home' since the crash of the data center. The recovery of 34 TB of cross related data bases takes time and great, expert effort.
Sorry you've been inconvenienced.
There are many great features available to you once you register, including:
Sign in or Create Account
