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Fix (hopefully) for those with English versions of Vista and non-US locales
Published on December 3, 2008 By kaftw In BootSkin

It appears the true root of the problem has been for users with an English version of Vista that were using a non-US locale (such as the UK).  Unfortunately, the code that was looking for the location of the winload.exe.mui file ended looking in the wrong folder because it was assuming there would be a folder for that locale on the system, which there is not always.  However, there has been a beta released that should address this issue.  Please let us know if you are still having the same problems and whether you're using an English version of Vista or some other language version, and what locale you have set.

Update: There is a new beta that's been published for BootSkin Pro that should help alleviate some frustration.  However, there is one thing that has been discovered that will break BootSkin that is out of our control and is squarely on the shoulders of the user.  In the Regional and Language Options menu under Control Panel, there is the Administrative tab, under which allows you to change the "Language for non-Unicode programs" locale.  If this is set to a locale that you don't have a language pack installed for, then BootSkin won't be able to find the correct resources to edit.  This isn't a "bug" necessarily in BootSkin, so much as the way that locale settings are handled in Windows.  Please let us know of any further problems that changing this setting to the "correct" locale doesn't fix.  For users with English versions of Vista, you may have to set this locale to "English (United States)" if it isn't already.  You should be able to change the settings under the other tabs without incident so long as this setting under the Administrative tab is "correct."  Thank you for your patience!


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on Dec 03, 2008

The new beta is working wonderfully here (York, UK) for me on Vista Ultimate x64. Many thanks for working on this one  to all the guys at StarDock, it's much appreciated.

Regards,   Peter

 

on Dec 03, 2008
The new beta is working great for me also, (Cornwall, UK. Vista Ultimate x 32), thanks for sorting it out for us on the other side of the Pond, much appreciated.
on Dec 03, 2008

It fails to apply skins on my system. Vista Home Premium x64, Swedish (sv-SE).

on Dec 03, 2008

Does it give an error when you apply?  Or do the bootskins not show up when you reboot?

on Dec 04, 2008

Same to me:It fails to apply skins on my system. Vista Ultimate 32bit.

 

on Dec 04, 2008

Do you have an international edition of Vista?  Or are you using an English version with a locale outside of the US?  What are your language and locale settings?

on Dec 04, 2008

The new version failes here too. It applies the skin without errors, but I just see the default screen. Running Vista 32bit Home German with German locale. On my English Vista 32bit Ultimate with German locale it works fine.

Regards

Thomas

on Dec 04, 2008

On my system it actually tells me that it fails (there was an error applying [skinname]). Which is progress, as the last version claimed to be successful.

on Dec 05, 2008

OK Same thing here (error appliyng skin) but I have to ask, How do you get the new beta version cause Im using Impulse and it still give me version 1.00.035 witch is not working on my Vista Ultimat 32bit version.

on Dec 05, 2008

petipit11
OK Same thing here (error appliyng skin) but I have to ask, How do you get the new beta version cause Im using Impulse and it still give me version 1.00.035 witch is not working on my Vista Ultimat 32bit version.
make sure you have "show pre-release versions" checked.  It's on the blue  orb in the upper left)

on Dec 05, 2008

It's working, it's working!

on Dec 05, 2008

It's working, it's working!
A line from a movie?  A kid yelling it?

on Dec 05, 2008

It's not working to me

on Dec 05, 2008

For Stardock version Ireland settings Dutch

on Dec 06, 2008

Problems getting it to set skin(error appliyng skin)

Uk local, home premium

Also says their is an update available.

I install the update it then resetes its self and says their is an update.

 

What version number should it display??

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