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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 08, 2008

Stephen Gear
What version number should it display??

1.01[b].022

on Dec 08, 2008

First of all the beta didn't show now it does but says error retrieving data so still now go, what a cock up.

on Dec 09, 2008

As of 1.01[b].024 it DOES work! for me!! Go stardock team! You make me happy.

 

on Dec 09, 2008

mickeko
As of 1.01[b].024 it DOES work! for me!! Go stardock team! You make me happy.

That is good news. 

For everyone else still experiencing problems:

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!

on Dec 10, 2008

1.01[b].024 not working for me to

on Dec 10, 2008

After the update 1.01[b].025 not working for me to only the nice Aurora from windows vista

on Dec 13, 2008

After the update 1.01[b].025 not working for me,no matter what bootskin i apply, it boots up with  the Aurora from windows vista. Running Windows vista home premium, service pack 1, U/K edition. 32 bit.  looks like there are still serious problems with this software..

on Dec 15, 2008

I need more information about your locale settings to address your particular issue.  If you open the Regional and Language Options menu in Control Panel and look under the Administrative tab, what is set as your system locale in the "Language for non-Unicode programs" box?

on Dec 16, 2008

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. 

LOL.  Obvioulsy all our fault for living outside the US and leaving the system settings as default    

Have changed the system locale and all is now ok.  Is this a temporary workaround until it is fixed or will you be expecting systems to be configured in this way permanently?  Changing system locales before to something different than the user locales has caused problems with applications like SQL Server, etc.

on Dec 16, 2008

 

Operating System
    Platform:                Windows Vista ultimate
    Version:                 6.00.6001 (Service Pack 1)
    Language:                Dutch
    System locale:           Dutch
    User locale:             Dutch

Processor
    Class:                   Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU      T2350  @ 1.86GHz
    Identifier:              GenuineIntel
    Number of processors:    2
    MMX available:           Yes
    SSE available:           Yes
    SSE2 available:          Yes
    SSE3 available:          Yes

Display
    Primary:                 1280x768x32

Memory
    Physical memory:         2.086,3 MB
    Paging memory available: 4.194,3 MB
    Virtual memory possible: 2.097,0 MB

 

on Dec 16, 2008

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on Dec 16, 2008

wilfman




quoting post
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. 


LOL.  Obvioulsy all our fault for living outside the US and leaving the system settings as default    

Have changed the system locale and all is now ok.  Is this a temporary workaround until it is fixed or will you be expecting systems to be configured in this way permanently?  Changing system locales before to something different than the user locales has caused problems with applications like SQL Server, etc.

Hopefully, it's temporary.

on Jan 01, 2009

My bootskinpro version 1.01.024 works fine it tells me. And it did. Till i installed sp2. It just shows a blue aurora like bootskin. So i uninstalled sp2 because it has a lot of other issues. And now it still shows the blue aurora. I uninstalled bootskin, reinstalled, applied the bootskin. No error messages. Reboot, blue aurora.....

Which part isn't rolled back upon uninstalling sp2 that bootskin does this?

 

Vista x64

 

on Jan 02, 2009

getting the aura screen at boot

 

languaage for non unicode set to English (united Kingdom)

on Jan 03, 2009

RIGHT ON DUDE!  IT WORKING HEHE THANKS ALOT!

JUST WHAT WE NEEDED!

 

STAY COOL!

LOGAN6

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