windows 8.1 removes service

Published on October 18, 2013 By jeff graper In WindowBlinds

Installed 8.1 yesterday with WB service turned off. I have it off when I'm running software that uses lots of CPU and doesn't skin well.

After I rebooted (several times), WB was gone. Starting the program gave me a repair dialog.

Haven't gone through the process yet, but wanted to know if people had the same experience when upgrading with the service running.

Comments

on Oct 18, 2013

That is unexpected.

I would uninstall and reinstall WindowBlinds, perhaps something has been corrupted during the Windows 8.1 upgrade.

on Oct 18, 2013

I had installed / upgraded to 8.1 the day it was released on technet and had several apps exhibit this behavior. Re-install of the app fixed it.

on Oct 18, 2013

Phoon

I had installed / upgraded to 8.1 the day it was released on technet and had several apps exhibit this behavior. Re-install of the app fixed it.

Same here.

on Oct 18, 2013

Neil Banfield

That is unexpected.

I would uninstall and reinstall WindowBlinds, perhaps something has been corrupted during the Windows 8.1 upgrade.

I tried to install on a clean windows 8.1 system and I could apply any styles. Unistall/redownload didn't work either.

I had Eset Smart Security and applied the recommend change to Eset to aallow WindowBlinds to function it works great now.

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