I've had problems with bbLeanSkin not skinning 32-bit apps on Windows 7 before. I was told I needed the Visual C++ Redistributable for both 32-bit and 64-bit environments. Even when installing them, bbLeanSkin wasn't skinning 32-bit apps. This had to do with Windows' 64-bit file system, since it stores 32-bit .dll in SysWOW64 while storing 64-bit ones in System32. The installer for the Redistributable would only install files on System32, so copying the .dll files to SysWOW64 solved the problem.
Unfortunately, that didn't help now that I'm on Windows 8. I'm not sure if it's an issue with the OS or I'm just not installing it right. 32-bit apps still don't get skinned or recognized by bbLeanSkin.dll. Does anyone here use bbLeanSkin on Windows 8? If so, please help...
Also, I'm using Mojmir's 64-bit build with its built-in bbLeanSkin plugin.
Files I've tried copying to SysWOW64 so far:
- MSVCR110.dll
- MSVCR100.dll
- MSVCR120.dll
- MSVCR110_clr0400.dll
- MSVCR100_clr0400.dll
- MSVCR120_clr0400.dll
They are all both in System32 and SysWOW64. OS is Windows 8 64-bit. bbLean is installed as a shell.
Attached is a screenshot of HexChat and explorer being skinned, while qBitTorrent(32-bit) is not. Firefox is 32-bit and not being skinned; what you see is my custom CSS applied through Stylish. Firefox is not included in exclusions.rc anymore, since I wanted to know if it was an issue with administrator privileges or 32-bit applications. Seemed like the latter, so I'm making this post.