So even with WB uninstalled - DAZ won't work right?

Not sure what happens (for all the apps) when the various trials run out

Generally when a particular app won't run with these products running = it's a conflict with WB and skinning... not all apps like to be skinned and some throw a hissy fit and refuse to play at all.

Windowblinds configuration > change the look of a particular application > add per application setting > browse to the tdlmake.exe and add it to be excluded from skinning.



Save the unistallation of SDCentral for last -

open SDCentral - right click on an application in the list and choose uninstall - may be wise to do them one at a time and reboot when asked. XP Bench and Smart Exception are under MISC on the left in SDC.

Add/Remove programs - SDCentral is in there

Thanks for you suggestions. I figured all that out but I still have no text under my icons and ALL of Windowblinds is un installed. Now the C:/ drive icon is one of those generic icons when the system doesn't have one to assign to it. Since it's a drive icon I don't seem to be able to right click and tell it where to look for it's default icon. So all sub folders under the C drive now have NO text when Thumbnail view is selected (which I prefer with my sight issues)

On top of it, now this is a strange thing. I decided it was time for a fresh installation of Windows. OK so I create a slipstreamed version to have SP2 blended into WinXP Pro disk, that worked just fine! So then I reboot with the disk in the drive and up comes the dialog to repair or freshly install Windows..... well now I have 2 versions of Windows. It didn't overwrite the old version, it saw the other partition with all my art stuff on it and wrote a new version of Windows there. I'm not sure how this is possible but I guess it is. On the drive I have a normally displayed C:/ drive with all sub folders displaying text in Thumbnail view. Booted into this one and same issues I was having before. Strange, very very strange and kinda funny actually. I still have a fully functional Windows and a new Windows installation with none of the quirks and needing some TLC or a way to delete it without deleting all my art files. Windows on the D:/ drive is not something I prefer. It's not "normal" to me so I think I'll have to start over again. If I can get rid of it somehow then I'd prefer to do that *IF* I can repair this version that's all messed up from WB's being here.

I figured out what caused this strangeness with the C:/ drive folders. When I was using IconPackager and then wanted to put the default icons back it didn't change the C drive back and it was still displaying the icon that I assigned to it before hand. When I uninstalled it that last left icon was taken out and then I had the generic icon in there and all my text was not being displayed in all the sub folders using Thumbnail view.

Some would say "then don't use that view" I say it's my system and it's a view I prefer so that advice doesn't work for me!

So if I can get this view thing fixed in the first XP installation I'll keep it (maybe) and then I can always use the other installation to boot into when I'm doing art and have a fully functional tdlmake.exe to use. I'll check it out......

Thanks for any other advice you may have for the above crazyness I'm experiencing!! LOL

Richard ~

I got no idea on the text under icons.