Stardock Released WindowBlinds 6.0
Published by: Sierra, in News
October3rd2007
WindowBlinds 6.0 is a utility that allows you to give your Windows desktop a new style by choosing from thousands of various skins, downloadable from WindowBlinds website.

Also, if you create your own personalized skin you will add more functionality with the new buttons from the title bar which can be roll-up buttons, link buttons, program short cut buttons, or media player controls.
Stardock, its developer, specialized in customizing the look and feel of Windows, added WindowBlinds special skins which can make your Windows look like your favorite car, sports and many other favorites.
Take control of your GUI and change the wallpapers, GUI color, choose a new taskbar and Start button.
And don't worry about the memory usage, because the program has the latest hardware acceleration features of modern video cards.
Though, i have encountered some problems while trying it and i hope that it won't happen to you too.
Maybe it's my Windows' fault.
When i was dragging and dropping windows on my desktop, using one of the skins available, the window's margins came after the main window, with a delay.
And when i was uninstalling the program, windows got blocked and i had to restart.
And here is the list of summarized features:
• New start menu animation support
• Category filtering on skins in wbconfig
• Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
• Random skin support
• The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
• Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instead of the entire skin
• Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
• Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
• Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames. Has some limitations on XP
• Ability to save such changes as a preset
• Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
• Ability to skin the sidebar
• Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
• Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
• Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
• Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
• Support for explorer background bitmaps
• Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
• Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
• Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
• Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
• Skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI
• Clean and easy configuration dialog.
• Tons of configuration options for users
• Animation supported on title bars, buttons, and many other elements.
• Change the color of any visual style on the fly
• Per-application visual styles
• Doesn't alter any system files
• Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of Windows
As system requirements you’ll need to have Windows 2003/XP/Vista, 1GHz processor, 120MB free space, 256MB RAM, and DirectX 8 or later compatible video card is necessary for per-pixel alpha-blended skins.
WindowBlinds 6.0 is a component of Object Desktop software but you can separately for just $19.95.
The trial does not include all features from the full version.

Also, if you create your own personalized skin you will add more functionality with the new buttons from the title bar which can be roll-up buttons, link buttons, program short cut buttons, or media player controls.
Stardock, its developer, specialized in customizing the look and feel of Windows, added WindowBlinds special skins which can make your Windows look like your favorite car, sports and many other favorites.
Take control of your GUI and change the wallpapers, GUI color, choose a new taskbar and Start button.
And don't worry about the memory usage, because the program has the latest hardware acceleration features of modern video cards.
Though, i have encountered some problems while trying it and i hope that it won't happen to you too.
Maybe it's my Windows' fault.
When i was dragging and dropping windows on my desktop, using one of the skins available, the window's margins came after the main window, with a delay.
And when i was uninstalling the program, windows got blocked and i had to restart.
And here is the list of summarized features:
• New start menu animation support
• Category filtering on skins in wbconfig
• Tag filtering on wallpapers in wbconfig
• Random skin support
• The ability to save a re-coloring of a skin as a preset
• Advanced HSL re-coloring where you pick a single color and a range in a skin and you can just change that color instead of the entire skin
• Ability to edit the system colors from wbconfig
• Ability to change skin fonts from wbconfig
• Ability to control transparency and blur on start menu, menus, taskbar & window frames. Has some limitations on XP
• Ability to save such changes as a preset
• Vista-Ize me function which sets some defaults to have a more vista like look
• Ability to skin the sidebar
• Ability to edit a sidebar skin from within wbconfig
• Improved WB skin install when handling upgrades of skins
• Ability to alter the mouse over animation speed
• Ability to alter the default button pulsing speed
• Support for explorer background bitmaps
• Ability to use the Aero frames with the rest of the skin
• Blur support in title bars (and menus on vista)
• Lots of new sections for new Vista specific parts
• Including IE navigation arrows, IE tabs, start menu shutdown/lock buttons
• Skins virtually every aspect of the Windows GUI
• Clean and easy configuration dialog.
• Tons of configuration options for users
• Animation supported on title bars, buttons, and many other elements.
• Change the color of any visual style on the fly
• Per-application visual styles
• Doesn't alter any system files
• Safe, reliable way to change the look and feel of Windows
As system requirements you’ll need to have Windows 2003/XP/Vista, 1GHz processor, 120MB free space, 256MB RAM, and DirectX 8 or later compatible video card is necessary for per-pixel alpha-blended skins.
WindowBlinds 6.0 is a component of Object Desktop software but you can separately for just $19.95.
The trial does not include all features from the full version.









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