Skin installation in WB7 works the same way double clicking on a .WBA file did in WB6.  Did you used to double click the WBA files, or use the add skin option in the old WB6 UI?

finger pointing at non-related events (or programs in this case) seems to be the norm (oh no, it's not us).

it has been clearly stated that preexisting blinds would not load after updating to WB7. this seems to only leave two options for the problems encountered. 1. impulse, which automatically updates itself (and recently crapped out the MS window automatic update process) or 2. WB7.

I visited impulse recently, to just looked around and was slightly annoyed that impulse updated itself without my approval. next thing "boom" my OS updates failed to load after that. looking around the message boards there were indications that the problem was with windowblinds and that updating from 6 to 7 corrected the problem. okay, I know it's still in beta but I figured getting my updates for my os is important so...

back to impulse to download wb7 (slick interface btw, I like it but miss the scroll bars in the presentations) and again impulse updated itself (yes, and again without permission). but then again the problem with my os updates were corrected.

now this thread has me thinking that the problem may not be with wb7 but with impulse. impulse updates and the ms updates crap out. upload wb7, to which impulse updates itself again and the problem with the os updates are corrected. my reasoning towards impulse is that people who were complaining were not all using wb but colors and other stardock programs. the commonality was updating through impulse.

my suggestion would be to visit the impulse site and see if impulse updates and if it does, does it correct the problem? you may even want to reinstall wb7 just to be safe???

Impulse will default to automatically updating itself (and just itself not apps) in the same way as Steam does.  I believe this can be disabled inside Impulse if you wish.

However the problem with Windows Update was unrelated to Impulse updating.  It happened when a Microsoft update (An optional one I believe), was installed on your PC.  Installing WB7 resolved the problem for you, as would have updating to the very latest version of WB 6.4.

Regarding this problem, the WBA extraction code is the same as was used for double clicking WBA files in WB6.  Chances are something is causing the paths being passed to the WB extractor to be invalid in some way and it is something we will be looking into.  I suspect it is a shell association issue.

Regarding scrollbars in WB7, do you mean there is no scrollbar in the preview, or in the lists themselves?

The scroll bar is hidden until you mouse over the blinds. For me, it's not so bad in Windowblinds.

I have a big problem in Deskscapes since I have over 400 dreams loading. It seems that the more skins you have, the smaller the scrollbar. Mines only a couple of pixels in length in DeskScapes.

You do not need the click on the scrollbar bit to move the window.  Clicking above the scrollbar will let you drag the list, or clicking in line with it will let you scroll in the same way you can if you had clicked on the visible scrollbar.

thank you, I'll look into that option.

on the update issue, oh, you probably know best.

in the preview screen, and again might I mention that I do like WB7, very nice.

yep, sure seems that way

Neil: I tried both ways, but i still get the same error message.

Which works quite well but if you're at the begining of the list and want to go to the end, it's not that useful. What would be great is to have the ability to manually add tabs so the user could split their skins /dreams into smaller groups. 

Hello all, im having the same problem. But im not finding the .wba file in the folder?

I bought windowblinds for the MOLTEN Skin, but i lose my start menu selections when i mouse over them just as

HG eliminator posted the pic above. If anyone can help me with the work around i would appriciate it.

Thanks topcattroy

EDIT: Ok found the .wba file i downloaded it (molten from get more skins) and the renamed it and unziped it then

copied and pasted it into the folder as you said. I then hit rebuild under options but this don't work. Am i doing something wrong