Same problem as doctorx. Installed, rebooted and got "Windowblinds does not appear to be correctly installed on your machine. Would you like to try to fix this issue now?"

If I click Yes, still the same problem. Uninstalled, rebooted, turned off AV (ESET 6), reinstalled, rebooted, still no go.

Service is running and wbcore.exe exists.

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 8.1

WindowBlinds version : WindowBlinds 7.90 (008 - Windows 8 Edition) - 64 bit OS

WindowBlinds is not installed correctly on this PC.  If you did not reboot after installing WindowBlinds 8 for the first time, then please reboot and try this again.

(SyncMaster P2250(G)/P22500(G),Magic P2250G(Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

Wblind.dll         2013/05/20 22:13:ll
Wblind64.dll         2013/05/20 22:13:48
Wbsrv.dll         2013/05/20 20:48:07
WB8Config.exe         2013/05/20 22:33:20
Wbload.exe         2013/05/08 00:00:24
Wbhelp.dll         2013/04/19 01:21:37
Tray.dll              2013/04/19 01:21:19
Wbload.dll              2013/05/20 20:48:39

Does the skin needs to specifically support Win8?  I'm running the Lantana skin and when copying/moving files in Win8, I get no history of transfer speed (but I do without a WB skin).

Snapshot here: http://screencast.com/t/aTNuULXtxX

Hello,

      I have 2 computers running Windows 8 pro 64bit- one is an HP & the other is a Toshiba. This new Windowblinds 8 beta doesn't work in either of my computers. Isn't it nice that I pay yearly for Object Desktop, which I haven't been able to use Windowblinds or several other programs for almost a year now. Shame on Stardock!

                                                                                                                                            Very Sad,

                                                                                                                                                       mecpooler

         I run eset 6 on both of my computers. Can use Windblinds 8 only if I disable the Hips protection! Thank you for all your help!                                                                                                                                        

Hm, there seems to be a problem with Eset 6. WindowBlinds not running here either.

Hi There,

Happy to see this new an long awaited version coming along fine! 
Just installed and up to now nothing really bothering came up.

Only pet peeve:  Please add a configuration for shadows, so that the visual 3D appearance can get enhanced.

wOOdy

from Germany

Unfortunately it looks like this may be something only ESET can fix as it is something they are doing.

Excluding wbcore.exe from it didn't seem to help here.

EDIT: I have found a way to make ESET happy.

Open the configuration window for ESET, click on the setup option.

Then under Computer you should see something called HIPS with a green dot and enabled next to it.  Click on enabled and pick setup from the menu.

On the Advanced setup screen find the configure rules button and click it.

Then click new... at the bottom

Give the rule a name like WindowBlinds and set action to ALLOW.

Then on the source applications tab pick Add... and browse to the WindowBlinds directory and select wbcore.exe

As best I can tell you do not need to configure any of the permissions on the other tabs, but if this still does not work then just tick them all.

Then click ok on each of the dialogs and sign out. 

When you sign back in you should find WindowBlinds 8 is now happy with ESET (or rather ESET is happy with WindowBlinds)

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We will be contacting them to see if they can white list us as that's an unreasonable number of steps. 

These steps are only required on Windows 8.  Windows 7 users should not need to do that.

None of those issues are normal.  Explorer windows should be skinned, WindowFX should work just fine with them and Start8 should work as it always has done.

Please download and run the following utility: http://sd.stardock.com/SDSupportTool.exe
This is a tool that we use to gather relevant log files and basic information about your computer. Once the utility finishes running, please send the .zip file it creates on the desktop to support@stardock.com

Guess I'll ask this question again in a different way. I noticed there are some skins that come with WB8 that you cannot delete, the delete text is grayed out, but there are others that say they can be deleted. Will deleting them cause any issues with WB8 functionality?

Thanks you very much Neil.

It looks like explorer is crashing out.  Is there anything in your event log about that?

EDIT: I have this recollection that comodo will continue to cause crashes unless totally removed from a machine.  That may well be what is going on here.

Photoshop CS6 has problems with WB8. The top tool bar gets wonky.

I have excluded PS CS6 from being skinned, as before.