Windows blinds and Coh dont mix
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Posted on: 2008-12-15 01:45 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Nope, sorry. It's long been known that COH and WindowsBlinds don't work well together.
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Never had an issue myself. Is it a Vistaproblem only?
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Nope, it seems random as far as I know, but for some people, WB just kills the game. Personally, I find WB a waste of time and stopped using it a long time ago. The hacked uxtheme.dll method works way better as it doesn't take extra resources.
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ah ok! ill downgrade to my old version that worked! hehe
thought it was worth asking on the off chance... 
If I were you I'd ditch windowblinds altogether. It sucks system resources like no other. Even though it can use your GPU to accelerate explorer windows, it ends up counteracting this by being a pig.
What do you use it for? I'm sure there are better alternatives for any use of Windowblinds.
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*Open WindowsBlinds
*Go to "Settings"
*Find "Change the look of an app" and click
*Find "Add per application setting" and click
*Find "CityOfHeroes.exe" (The default folder's "C:\Program Files\City of Heroes") and open
*Find the checkbox that says "Ignore this application and do not skin it", check it and click OK.
*Click "Apply Changes" and run the game as normal. Voila! You can have WindowsBlinds running without CoX having a hissy fit. 
[EDIT] Oh, and while you're at it, you might want to pop into "System Info" and check the box that says "Never use per pixel borders on a skin", because they were causing issues with my games too.
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heya guys, iv just had to reinstall my machine and iv just updated my copy of windows blinds! but i have to disable Windows Blinds if i wanna run CoH!
I know that there are a million and one thigns you can put into the target line of the shortcut to do all sorts of things! was wondering if anyone knows if theres anything i can put in it or summit to avoid having to disable it?
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