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Reply to ++ LogonStudio display Problem ++ in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

I can't get into safe-mode, unfortunately the repair didn't go through , so now I have to do a complete reinstall. It was only with the Doom3-1280x1024-Login, I used several others before, none of them gave this problem. I did however experience the above discribed problem that sometimes the login itself wouldn't load (mouse-courser was already showing, but the logon-graphics never loaded). With the Doom3-Login however not even the mouse-curs

Reply to ++ LogonStudio display Problem ++ in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

Yeah- I remember doing that once, but AFAIR this will leave your system in a clean state as if you just installed- meaning that I'll lose all the installed programms etc. So that makes it a last resort type of thing.

Reply to ++ LogonStudio display Problem ++ in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

Yes, both the Safe Mode and the Restore Last Working Configuration produce the same results- just a black screen after the XP-bootscreen. I tried to wait for some time, but after 2+ hours I don't think there will be any improvements. I tried replacing the loginui.exe but that didn't change anything. Does anyone know how LogonStudio is hooked into the login-process? And how- if possible- I can get it out of there in dos-mode?

Reply to ++ LogonStudio display Problem ++ in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

Just a bit of a warning to the 'mister cee': I wouldn't try other bootskins. I had the same problem in that bootloader sometimes wouldn't load the skin. I applied a new skin lately and since then ran into a serious problem upon a reboot. Now my Log-On-Screen won't load at all, making it impossible to start up windows. Strangely enough, I did try loging out- without a problem. Right now I'm fighting to get my windows back to working condition- as of yet with no success. I had the s

Reply to Glow and transparency in Vista-titlebars in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

I've noticed that for obvious reasons the gimmicks like glass-distortion aren't in WB5. Couldn't one perhaps try kind of 'hacking' this by multiplying the underlaying colors with a heightmap (such as one can build using the nVidia-Plugin for PS)? Or would this eat up too much performance?