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 #3 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:00 PM
Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
Before the update, all was well.
Thus far, this has happened with Object Dock Plus (to this day, still cant run it, and have emailed support), newest Windows Fx beta (beta, so I can understand that), and now the wb5 update.
Anyway, it's nice to see that some updates are appearing.
Reply #5 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 9:49 PM
Delivered as promised.
Nice wallpaper incorporation feature.
Congrats to Stardock and crew. 
Reply #8 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:54 PM
Reply #9 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:16 PM
| I noticed absolutely nothing with this update! |
You really need an eye-specialist --- !!!
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:18 PM
Man I wish I had some money to buy Object Desktop right now... but I got to wait until probably this fall to get it.
Reply #12 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:42 PM
Reply #14 Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:17 AM
ended up having to insert this into a command line in the wb directory (heh, worked for Object dock Plus also, so i'm a happy camper)
CACLS.EXE . /E /T /G USERS:F
(was file in wb dir user permissions.txt)
Great job stardock.
Reply #16 Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:59 AM
Reply #17 Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:18 AM
And yeh, what is "Taskbar blurring"?? And where is the option to be found??Reply #18 Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:38 AM
IE7 support means handling some things IE7 was doing which upset WB. We will not be adding in support for animations etc in IE7 until Microsoft finish it.
Taskbar blurring is a theme option that some themes use for their semi transparent taskbars. I believe aura makes use of it.
Reply #20 Wednesday, March 22, 2006 11:57 AM
| Taskbar blurring is a theme option that some themes use for their semi transparent taskbars. I believe aura makes use of it. |
Is there a picture of how it looks like? Or do you mean that the taskbar is just semi-transparent?
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Reply #1 Tuesday, March 21, 2006 8:25 PM