Xiandi's Place
Published on December 14, 2009 By Xiandi In Object Desktop

I had Descapes before and it was running fine. With the last update to it, it only partially worked. Some dreams would play, some would not. I have not tried to find out what the problem is until today.

I tried to load a dream today. I opened Deskscapes, clicked the one I wanted, and applied it. The only thing it showed on my screen was a tiny dark box in the middle of my screen and it crashed explorer.

I went to Impulse to see if there was any updates to it (sometimes that will fix things). Impulse showed that I did not even have Deskscapes installed! So...

I uninstalled Deskscapes using Revo Uninstaller, which cleans the registry along with the uninstall process. Opened Impulse to install Deskscapes. I have the 'show prerelease version' checked. I try to install it. I get an error message "The beta of the application you are attempting to download/register is not available". I uncheck the 'prerelease version' box and try again. It installs fine. I have verified the install through Impulse too.

Now Deskscapes will not open at all. Not from the start menu, not if I brouse to the exe in the stardock folder and click it...nothing. If I open Impulse again and check the 'prerelease' button, it shows an update available...I try to get that update and get the error message again.

So, now I cant get any dreams to run at all. Any advice will be appreciated.


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on Dec 14, 2009

Do you have something else installed that is loaded into explorer that may be preventing DeskScapes from doing so? Perhaps another wallpaper changer or some other shell mod?
nope, nothing new since before this started. I've never used a wallpaper changer, or use another shell mod. Just stardock stuff. I have not loaded anything new onto this computer other than AVG Antivirus, and I uninstalled that to make sure that it wasnt interfering with anything.

Edit: I dont think I mentioned that that dll error only shows up when Deskscapes is installed. So, it is definitely related to this problem.

on Dec 15, 2009

Did you have Deskscapes 2 installed previously?

on Dec 15, 2009

I did and it was working ok, but now I dont have any of them installed.

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