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Start Menu

Published on April 18, 2005 By Hippie In WindowBlinds

Just curious really. A while back, maybe even 6 months or so, I went into WindowBlinds where you do the user overrides and stuff. Anyway, I cut off my Start Menu Icon, it said do it for what ever skin I was trying. Well, it worked. Now does anyone know how to get it back. I've checked, unchecked, restarted, everything except reinstall. I think I even did that. No problem, just curious. Peace. Hippie

Comments

retiredmaster

on Apr 18, 2005

One thing to consider is that if your PC is part of a domain it won't show a user icon anyway. My office PC doesn't show a Start Menu icon in any circumstances, whereas my home one does. Might that be it?

(At least I think it's the domain thing - something to do with it being networked... Doh, Mr Helpful strikes again.)

thomassen

on Apr 18, 2005

The little usericon in the top if the startmenu? WindowBlinds - User Overrider - tick "Show usericon in startpanel (if not domain)"

Hapkido

on Apr 18, 2005

I have the very same problem. The proprietary usericon for the skin I am using used to be displayed, if it had one. I think there was one skin that had a horrid usericon, hehe, so I disabled that feature in the User Overrides section. Then just today I wanted to have the usericon for the "Antares" skin displayed and enabled that option again. But the default usericon only displays. I've reapplied the skin, logged off/on, and rebooted but no go. And yes, the usericon.jpg is in the skin's folder.

Any other suggestions?

I'm also wondering when the WindowBlinds HELP section is going to be updated. It is woefully lacking and out of date for version 4.5.1. For new users, like myself, this is rather frustrating not being able to get information on various features.

Corky_O

on Apr 18, 2005

Has anyone tried this:

Enable user icon in WindowBlinds Config.

Copy the user icon image to "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures" folder (where "C" is the letter drive). Note - you may need to use the "Tools>Folder Options>"Show hidden files and folders" to see this folder.

Use the "Control Panel > User Accounts > change my picture"

It may be that Windows is assuming you do not want a user icon displayed after setting the WindowBlinds Config to disable it.

Not sure, just a thought.

essorant - you are correct, admins of domain networks generally disable user icons.

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