Which specific skins are showing this?

gloss burgundy

crystalline

vox

wraith

rockstar

subsecret

space

stealthOS

turbo

oxidized

nightlit

krome

knot vista

magic

golf

elegance

elan

this is just to name a few, but in reality i own a lot of master skins and every single one of them returns the same error.

Like i said when i was able to use the old windowblinds 6 interface these skins loaded perfectly but now that i don't have that option i can't use any of them. Also ever since the latest update none of the subscriber skins will work either. Hope you can work it out because it's got me stumped

Strange. I can't speak on any of the others at the moment but I do know that I have used both wraith and vox in the new interface without any problems.

i forgot to add, i recently reformatted my computer and installed WB7 as a new install as well but still get the same problems.

Last night i loaded impulse and there was an update to WB7 6.80 beta to 6.90 beta but i still get the same issue. i have just downloaded the newest subscriber skin and it seems to be working ok. At first trying to load it as a .zip gave me the same error message so i renamed it to .wba and it loaded ok. But before people suggest i try this with other skins, been there done that .

they dont work regardless if they are in .zip or .wba format (this was one of the first things i tried as i have come across this problem before). Also when i tried to load the skin sublime it applies but there are no system tray icons nd all the menus are blacked out. I am a long term object desktop subscriber and my latest subscription runs out in 2012 so i know it's nothing to do with "cracked" software as i have purchased all this stuff legally.

that is strange.....I've used several of those recently on both Vista and Windows 7

what OS?

are you installed to the default directories?

Video card? driver version?

other customization software?

any firewall settings or anit-virus settings that might effect downloads?

I too am having an issue.. it would seem with one of my fave skins it has rendered it useless. and only this one skin..notice the start menu.. it wasnt like that this morning before I updated.  if i click on the area where the items are you can sort of see in the BG they popup visible but do nothing.. am on windows Vista BTW..

ok i have found a temporary workaround, take your favourite windowblinds skin and rename the .wba file to .zip, unzip it and if needed create a folder for the skin to go into (some skins unzip into their own folder and others don't). then just cut and paste that folder into your windowblinds folder in sshared documents/stardock/windowblinds and then rebuild the list within windowblinds itself. this worked for me with wraith, crystalline and all others i have done so far. This issue stills needs to be addressed but thankfully until then this workaround should work.

Well done Nimbin

Nimbin do you have a default zip handling program like winzip or winrar?

i have WinZIP pro and WinRAR pro as well as universal extractor. WinRAR is my default unzipper

The start menu for Molten does the same as Xenomorph.   The start menu animation no longer works with RIP 2007. I just used it last week and it was fine.Plasmatron by I.R.B and some other skins have the start menu about 1- 1.5 inches away from the left edge of the monitor. Are some older skins doomed now with WB7?

Your workaround makes me think that the problem is related to how compressed files are handled on your system.

the problem i am having only started once i had installed WB7. everything worked perfectly with WB6.  The workaround is just to get the skins to load in the new interface, the whole problem is WB7 returning an no .uis file message when trying to load some skins. i get the error message regardless if the skins in a .zip or .wba file. My workaround just enables me to get them to work.