Minimize problems

[ufoslava]

Something wiered happen to my minimize buttons (all of them!).
They had stoped working all together... in all layouts
WTF is happen' to my winamp?

Then something even worse happen: When i was searching the forums for solution - the search engine just stuck...3 times!!
(And returned error message...)

Is this the end of the world?

[Mr Jones]

Post example of your xml for your minimize buttons.

[ufoslava]

Miminize buttons are not the problem cuz they had worked fine till now...
Other skins stuck too...

[SLoB]

its a feature, not restricted to minimise but close & shade too

altho i have noticed it on the very odd occasion when refreshing skin, normally closing winamp and restarting fixes it

[Mr Jones]

Really?, I've never seen that before.

I've just spent the last two weeks perfecting an animation that runs on my min/shade/close buttons as well, didn't notice any funkiness with them....

Any 3rd party plugs installed by any chance?

[ufoslava]

Ow...didn't tried that...
What do you mean by "Restarting"? Shoud i restart my pc or Winamp?
Well resterting Winamp didn't made it work properly...

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by Mr Jones


Any 3rd party plugs installed by any chance?

[SLoB]

not here, if i get it again, will try and reproduce for bugtesting feedback

[ufoslava]

well i tried to install Vortex and failed somehow...might it be a problem?

[martin.deimos]

set up a new winamp installation or delete studio.xnf and winamp.ini

[ufoslava]

Thanks, man!!!
You saved me again...

[Michgelsen]

I had it too a few days ago, they suddenly stopped working. Restarting Winamp worked out for me.

[ufoslava]

Who knows the source of the problem?

[ufoslava]

Okay, enough!!
This is getting annoying!
Even after reinstalling Winamp, the problem came back!
What the heck shoud i do to make it minimize properly?!

[Mr Jones]

Well, you still haven't answered the question I asked you twice...

Originally posted by Mr Jones


Any 3rd party plugs installed by any chance?

You might also want to post some system specifications if you are looking for a tech support type answer, read this for futher information

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....d=161361#specs

For all anyone knows your problem is not related to the skin you are using , it's more likely related to some other outside system/application issue.

[ufoslava]

Well i got no 3-rd party thingies... i didn't even downloaded any yet...
My computer worked okay with the last winamp version (5.12) so my hardware cant be the problem...

Question: Does "Votex" skin makes any critical changes for Winamp?

[Foxw]

having worked okay previously and NOW are two different things.

It could be as stupid as something you recently installed. be it a critical update to your OS or some random peice of software..

Really, think back.. Have you installed ANYTHING since before this problem came up.

I would also do a check of your computer for any virus's or spybots, as thier netorious for wreaking things so subtly that windows ignores it but things like winamp n such will catch.

[Mr Jones]

Originally posted by ufoslava
Well i got no 3-rd party thingies... i didn't even downloaded any yet...
My computer worked okay with the last winamp version (5.12) so my hardware cant be the problem...

Question: Does "Votex" skin makes any critical changes for Winamp?

Did you follow any of the advice listed in the link I posted you?


If so, where are you system specs?
Hijack This log?
List of all plugins installed?

Seriously if you want help solving your problem stop with the 'it worked before and now it dosn't' lines and start giving up information that might actually help people to help you.

[ufoslava]

Okay... sinse you sure my system specs are so important...

Pentium III 866 MHz.
256 mb RAM
Windows Xp Pro SP2
Full Winamp installation v 5.12

No custom or downloaded plugins installed.

Since the problem only one error message appeared:
"Error updating DB file on disk. This should never really happen

Hit Retry to try again (recomended), or Cancel to abort (NOT recomended, and may leave the DB in an unuseable state)"

Problem is gone for a while after deleting studio.xnf and back again.

Unsuccessfully installed votex skin.

That's all i had to say... any more info needed?

[Mr Jones]

Hijack This log?
List of all plugins installed?

Instructions on how to get those are included within the post above,including links to hijackthis and a gen purpose plugin that will output all the loaded plugins you have, you'd be amazed at how many people insist they have no 3rd party plugins or that their system is clean when it eventually turns out that it isn't, the tech support forums are full of people who say that.

Have you also tried a full clean uninstall/re-install, procedure listed in the same link above.

[ufoslava]

Well the problem is gone after i had "cleaned the house"(full Winamp derictory removal) so thanks, guys, for tips.
More update soon and if it returns - ill make the log and list...

Mr Jones, dont be mad... it's bad for you (and us...), sorry if i made you upset...

Hope i healed the system...

[Mr Jones]

I'm not mad, I'm trying to stress the importance of giving as much information as possible when you have an issue with winamp, quite often it's something totally unconnected to winamp itself, you could have installed something else on your system that has silently installed a 3rd party plugin without you knowing, gen_nomad.dll is the best example of a silent install plug that got installed because of some other program that wreaked havoc on peoples winamp installs.

The only way for people to help you is if you help them by giving as much information as possible in the first place.

That way you'll get a clear and often correct response instead of people second guessing what might or might not be causing your problems.

Your lucky to have posted here, if you'd made a similar request up in Tech support without any relevant information your post would have been ignored from the off.