WindowBlinds 5.01 released
Tweaks, faster, new features, bug fixes, and more
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock has released WindowBlinds 5.01. WindowBlinds is a program that enables users to completely change the look and feel of Microsoft Windows. With it, users can apply "skins" that change the existing Windows graphical user interface (GUI) across the entire system. Title bars, push buttons, radio buttons, the Start bar, and nearly every other part of the Windows interface is changed.
WindowBlinds is one of the most popular desktop customization utilities of all time, used by millions of people. It's also used by companies such as Microsoft, nVidia, ATI, Nintendo, Blizzard, and many others to create their own custom desktops. The recent Xbox 360 Desktop uses WindowBlinds for instance. Companies also license WindowBlinds based technology in the form of DirectSkin to make their own applications skinnable. For example, the ATI Catalyst Control Center uses WindowBlinds for its skinning.
WindowBlinds has skinning features not thought possible on Windows XP or before. For instance, WindowBlinds can support alpha blending in skins (glass effects and other visual enhancements in title bars and controls) as well as animation, shadows, sound effects, and more.
WindowBlinds 5.01 improves performance on X64 based systems, adds support for wallpaper management, taskbar blurring, IE 7 support, and various tweaks, bug fixes, and performance enhancements.
It can be downloaded at www.windowblinds.net. WindowBlinds can be registered on its own for $19.95 or as part of Stardock's award-winning suite of desktop utilities Object Desktop (www.objectdesktop.com).
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Reply #42 Friday, March 24, 2006 3:42 PM
Reply #43 Friday, March 24, 2006 7:32 PM
| Wow!! A little high strung aren't we?!? |
EltonFan has never been known for moderate thinking and social niceties...
Reply #45 Friday, March 24, 2006 8:15 PM
Reply #46 Friday, March 24, 2006 10:16 PM
Bkwtinyman,
If you are referring to the first shot from the left, the WB is "Arrow", and the wall is from "5imple Alpha".
Arrow WB https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=5347&LibID=1
5imple Alpha is installed with WB 5.01, and you can find the wall in the skin folder.
If you are referring to the first shot on top right, the WB is XBox 360 https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=5603&LibID=1
The wall is Galactic Civilizations II - Evil Robot https://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?SID=1&SkinID=26773&LibID=8
Reply #47 Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:09 AM
btw what happens is my game goes real real choppy, the graphics hardly move... kind like if I suddenly lost all my RAM.
Reply #48 Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:55 AM
Are you running your game in a window?
If so and you have an ati graphics card you will find things run slowly if you have per pixel alpha enabled & the game is using antialiasing. This has not changed from WB 5.0 though as its a bug on ATIs side.
Reply #49 Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:24 PM
Reply #50 Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:06 PM
Reply #51 Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:23 PM
Reply #52 Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:49 PM
i can't find a link anywhere
thanks
found it - Stardock Central
Reply #54 Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:01 AM
Mr Cabelguy: It sounds like you were just not using a per pixel skin with WB5.0 and are with 5.01.
Disabling antialiasing will resolve the problem.
Reply #55 Sunday, March 26, 2006 5:25 AM
Back to version 5.00[b].011 with which i don't get any trouble ...
Reply #56 Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:10 PM
Reply #57 Monday, March 27, 2006 2:44 PM
I have a directory "Wallpapers" with many subfolders for different categories "Renders" "Landscapes" "Winter" "Summer" "Places"
Reply #58 Monday, March 27, 2006 3:27 PM
Reply #59 Tuesday, March 28, 2006 5:55 AM
| Too bad the Wallpaper feature doesn't know enough to search subfolders. I have a directory "Wallpapers" with many subfolders for different categories "Renders" "Landscapes" "Winter" "Summer" "Places" |
Same for me, unless this feature is not included, the option "wallpaper" is useless i think
BTW, the best "Wallpaper Manager soft i know is Link which allow to have folders / subfolders and much better lists of wallpaper. Ex: i use a specific theme but i want the oportunity to change wallpaper; in a few clicks "WallPaper Changer" let you build a list of different walls (wherever they are on your disk), just save the list with a "talking" name and there you are ...
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Reply #41 Friday, March 24, 2006 9:50 AM
Wow!! A little high strung aren't we?!? While the suggestion to format your HD just to run WB might be a little extreme it's not like you or anyone have to follow his advice. And if you do feel an overwhelming urge to respond to people, you could at least be mature enough not to resort to name calling. I'm pretty sure you should have outgrown that by the 5th grade.