WB5 causes PerfectDisk scheduler to crash

Published on November 22, 2005 By Kevin_C In WindowBlinds

I've spent the last couple of weeks working with the support folks at Raxco trying to determine why my disk defragmenter (PerfectDisk 7.0) crashes whenever it is scheduled to run an offline defragmentation. After I sent a crash log to them they replied and said it was wblind.dll that was causing the problem with their application. I was able to work around it by excluding the particular executable from withing WB but it seems odd that I would have to do that for one executable but not the main program executable. The program doesn't seem to use custom windows or anything else so I'm not sure what the problem is but I thought someone might want to take a look just in case. BTW, I'm using the latest beta of WB5.

Comments

Hapkido

on Nov 22, 2005

I also use Perfect Disk 7.0 and have a couple of "Offline Defrags" but without any problems whatsoever. I'm curious to hear what further investigation reveals about your particular problem, just in case I run into this too at some future date.

Hapkido

on Nov 22, 2005

Man, I hate these double-posts/replies.

scorpio-logic

on Nov 22, 2005

I bet they just saw a dll they didn't know and accused it. A case of guilty before proven innocent.

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Kevin_C

on Nov 23, 2005

well, I can cause it to happen on a clean install of windows with only PerfectDisk and WB installed. I didn't just blindly listen to what they claimed the problem was, and if the problem is not WB in this case then why does excluding the PDSched.exe file from WB's skinning fix the problem? I wonder if it's some strange problem caused partially by the fact that I'm using a dual-core processor..

Kevin_C

on Nov 23, 2005

If anyone from Stardock support would like to look at the dump files I sent to Raxco just let me know as I have them and can send them in.

Neil Banfield

on Nov 23, 2005

And this happened with the current build of WB on OD?

Please send any info you have on the bug to neil@stardock.com

Kevin_C

on Nov 23, 2005

ok, I'll send you the transcript of the conversations I had with Raxco. As far as version, it was the version before the currently available build, but I'm guessing you'll see that in the dump files.

huntnyc

on Jan 10, 2006

Is there any progress on resolving this problem. It has affected me also because I use the PerfectDisk 7 scheduler. Thank you.

Gary

Neil Banfield

on Jan 10, 2006

This is no longer a problem as far as we are aware as it was resolved in one of the WB 5 betas before release.

yrag

on Jan 10, 2006

Upgrade to version 7.00.046

huntnyc

on Jan 10, 2006

Will retest then to make sure. I have latest build of both programs I think but I may try to go through Stardock Central now. Is there a newer build than the first one that was released for WB5? Thanks.

Gary

yrag

on Jan 10, 2006

What version are you using...Shareware (trial), Enhanced (paid), Object Desktop ...?

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