Derell Licht

Join Date 06/2004

+12

WB10 - theme backup question

I'm using Windows 10 Pro and WB 10.89
I have roughly 200 themes installed. I have made extensive mods to some of these themes, using the WB "Modify style" option.

I am trying to establish what I might need to do, in order to back up all my modified themes...
I know the active themes are installed in folder C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\WindowBlinds ...
Can I just save a copy of this folder tree, and copy it to a new machine??
My assumption here, is that the original machine has become unavailable for some reason (let's assume a disk crash).

Could I install WB on a new machine, activate it, and then just copy this folder over the new machine???

windowblinds

Advanced Search

Watch this post

Do not email me updates for this post Email me updates for this post

Successfully updated karma reason!

JanOscar

Join Date 12/2002

+1297

Yes, that should work. I have done that several times. After you have copied the Windowblinds folder to the new machine, you should click the cogwheel in the upper right of the WB config screen a click the "Rebuild list"

Successfully updated karma reason!

Hello,

Looking back at this thread, your saved preset will be saved into "SkinName.WBO7" files. So if you copy over these files into correct folder, it should be carried over.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Quoting JanOscar,

reply 1

Excellent!! Thank ye for this hint!

Successfully updated karma reason!

One more question on this topic:
I notice that there are a bunch of .dll and .wbp files in the base directory;
I am assuming that those are *not* related to any themes that I have installed, but are WB files, yes??
Presumably, if I back up from WB10.89 (which I am using) and restore to a Windows 11 machine using WB11, I wouldn't want to copy over any program files...

Or to ask the question backwards: is there anything in that root folder that I *would* want to include in this backup?

Successfully updated karma reason!

JanOscar

Join Date 12/2002

+1297

Quoting Derell Licht,

reply 4

Presumably, if I back up from WB10.89 (which I am using) and restore to a Windows 11 machine using WB11, I wouldn't want to copy over any program files...

Copy the folder with your backed up skins over to new machine into C:\Users\Public\Documents\Stardock\Windowblinds before you install Windowblinds on the new machine is the safest way to avoid conflicts.

Successfully updated karma reason!

Quoting JanOscar,

reply 5

Quoting Derell Licht,

Presumably, if I back up from WB10.89 (which I am using) and restore to a Windows 11 machine using WB11, I wouldn't want to copy over any program files...

Oh!! Excellent idea, thanks!!

Successfully updated karma reason!