Compatibility issue with an app?

for some reason windowblinds is preventing my ubisoft connect from starting, ill get a pop up for connect that says initializing and then it closes and never restarts. all my other game launchers work fine unless i try to launch an ubisoft game through them and then ill get nothing.

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Quoting chibs316,

reply 451

for some reason windowblinds is preventing my ubisoft connect from starting, ill get a pop up for connect that says initializing and then it closes and never restarts. all my other game launchers work fine unless i try to launch an ubisoft game through them and then ill get nothing.

Which game are you trying?

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sdRohan

Join Date 10/2012

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Quoting chibs316,

reply 451

for some reason windowblinds is preventing my ubisoft connect from starting, ill get a pop up for connect that says initializing and then it closes and never restarts. all my other game launchers work fine unless i try to launch an ubisoft game through them and then ill get nothing.

This is resolved in an internal build. Thank you for the report.

Sean Drohan
Stardock Product Lifecycle Manager

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any ubisoft game that requires the ubi connect, i have to switch windowblinds to the default theme and then everything works as normal.

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Hi,

I'm evaluating the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on various VMware virtual machines..

With W11 23H2, no problems mixing WB with various utilities like explorer-patcher and Start Menu X. But 23H2 will reach EOL this year.

With W11 24H2 LTSC IoT (to get long time support without disrupting new features), I cannot make my favorite menu replacement
(sorry ) Start Menu X work with WB.

I don't use with 24H2 explorer-patcher, Microsoft having removed the dormant old taskbar code EP does not work at all with WB, their own taskbar replacement is a mess when WB is skinning the taskbar.

Start Menu X without WB works perfectly.

But as soon as the taskbar is skinned, instead of seeing the Start Menu X start button (I chose one very garish to show the difference):

I see the normal icon over it:

and clicking on it start the Windows usual menu instead of Star Menu X one.

You can try with the free version here:

https://www.startmenux.com/index.html

I know that you provide a nice Start Menu, and having an object desktop license I could use it, but I like better the no scroll at all flat view that Start Menu X provides.

Making WB work with explorer-patcher on W11 24H2 might be a good thing too. I'm sure that many EP users would love to be able to use WB with it, both products strive to get rid of all the nastiness that Microsoft keeps forcing on us.

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basj

Join Date 03/2001

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Quoting Bob4K,

reply 455

Hi,

I'm evaluating the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on various VMware virtual machines..

With W11 23H2, no problems mixing WB with various utilities like explorer-patcher and Start Menu X. But 23H2 will reach EOL this year.

With W11 24H2 LTSC IoT (to get long time support without disrupting new features), I cannot make my favorite menu replacement
(sorry

) Start Menu X work with WB.

I don't use with 24H2 explorer-patcher, Microsoft having removed the dormant old taskbar code EP does not work at all with WB, their own taskbar replacement is a mess when WB is skinning the taskbar.

Start Menu X without WB works perfectly.

But as soon as the taskbar is skinned, instead of seeing the Start Menu X start button (I chose one very garish to show the difference):

I see the normal icon over it:

and clicking on it start the Windows usual menu instead of Star Menu X one.

You can try with the free version here:

https://www.startmenux.com/index.html

I know that you provide a nice Start Menu, and having an object desktop license I could use it, but I like better the no scroll at all flat view that Start Menu X provides.

Making WB work with explorer-patcher on W11 24H2 might be a good thing too. I'm sure that many EP users would love to be able to use WB with it, both products strive to get rid of all the nastiness that Microsoft keeps forcing on us.

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Have you tried disable this option in Windowblinds?

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

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Thanks for the fast reply.

The option was not on.

I tried ON and OFF again to be sure, that makes no difference.

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basj

Join Date 03/2001

+1687

Quoting Bob4K,

reply 457

Thanks for the fast reply.

The option was not on.

I tried ON and OFF again to be sure, that makes no difference.

That probably show that WB and Start Menu X is not compatible.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

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Quoting Bob4K,

reply 455

Hi,

I'm evaluating the transition from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on various VMware virtual machines..

With W11 23H2, no problems mixing WB with various utilities like explorer-patcher and Start Menu X. But 23H2 will reach EOL this year.

With W11 24H2 LTSC IoT (to get long time support without disrupting new features), I cannot make my favorite menu replacement
(sorry

) Start Menu X work with WB.

I don't use with 24H2 explorer-patcher, Microsoft having removed the dormant old taskbar code EP does not work at all with WB, their own taskbar replacement is a mess when WB is skinning the taskbar.

Start Menu X without WB works perfectly.

But as soon as the taskbar is skinned, instead of seeing the Start Menu X start button (I chose one very garish to show the difference):

I see the normal icon over it:

and clicking on it start the Windows usual menu instead of Star Menu X one.

You can try with the free version here:

https://www.startmenux.com/index.html

I know that you provide a nice Start Menu, and having an object desktop license I could use it, but I like better the no scroll at all flat view that Start Menu X provides.

Making WB work with explorer-patcher on W11 24H2 might be a good thing too. I'm sure that many EP users would love to be able to use WB with it, both products strive to get rid of all the nastiness that Microsoft keeps forcing on us.

Unfortunately having installed StartMenuX I cannot even make it uninstall as the uninstaller is buggy and just crashing out every other 32 bit process.

It is merely the nature of the beast when you have two things trying to impact the same area. My recommendation would be to use Start11 with WB as the two are compatible with each other.

With regards to explorerpatcher, I suspect it didn't implement the taskbar in a theme aware manner.

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Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 459

Unfortunately having installed StartMenuX I cannot even make it uninstall as the uninstaller is buggy and just crashing out every other 32 bit process.

Wow, sorry to hear that. I have been using it for years, and never had this problem.

May I suggest to use Revo Uninstaller? It's a great tool to remove all the remnant of a software hard to remove.

It is merely the nature of the beast when you have two things trying to impact the same area. My recommendation would be to use Start11 with WB as the two are compatible with each other.

Of course, but I really like Start Menu X.

I will stay with Windows 10 IoT LTSC, its EOL is 2032.

I really don't like W11 after trying it, so now that I know that you can't help, it's the only choice.

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