WINDOWBLINDS BETA FOR VISTA ARRIVES!
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
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MSethWeisberg
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:20 PM
Reply #3 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:20 PM
Ok...you can't see it but I am doing a happy dance. Too bad that I am still at work for another 2 hours.
Orion
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:24 PM
Reply #5 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:24 PM
Orion rushes off to bed so I can give it a go when I get to work in the morning. 
BasketWeaver
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:26 PM
Reply #6 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:26 PM
So WindowBlinds 5.49 is only for Pc's that have Vista installed? So if that is true it looks like if you don't have a vista machine you won't be doing any WindowBlind updates. I would think these WindowBlind versions are going to get installed on the wrong pc's. (My old Inspiron laptop won't be able to run Vista darn it!)
Island Dog
Reply #8 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:32 PM
No. I'm running it on XP right now.
Reply #8 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:32 PM
| So WindowBlinds 5.49 is only for Pc's that have Vista installed? |
No. I'm running it on XP right now.
SteveGosselin
Reply #9 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:06 AM
Reply #9 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:06 AM
Yeap, all seems to works fine on XP. woooohoooooo!!
Very nice blur effect on skin change!!
Very nice blur effect on skin change!!
fudoshi
Reply #11 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:41 AM
Reply #11 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:41 AM
ooooo fantastic jump for joy wow exitment will kill me ty stardock
dustyshot
Reply #12 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:47 AM
Reply #12 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:47 AM
Hey I got it switched to beta on XP but I keep hearing beeps all the time. Is that supposed to happen? Never happened before with 5.1.
Aleatoric
Reply #13 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:53 AM
Reply #13 Thursday, November 16, 2006 12:53 AM
Giving it a shot right now. Works pretty well, even the transparent taskbar is 'live' 
So far the only issues I've found are that changing the skin caused explorer to die (got the vista 'something bad happened to explorer' dialog), and Office 2007, while it skins well, the titlebar buttons don't work, and there are some artifacts in the client area (on Excel at least). No show stoppers, though, and I'm pretty sure most of these will be fixed in future releases.
Great stuff so far!
So far the only issues I've found are that changing the skin caused explorer to die (got the vista 'something bad happened to explorer' dialog
), and Office 2007, while it skins well, the titlebar buttons don't work, and there are some artifacts in the client area (on Excel at least). No show stoppers, though, and I'm pretty sure most of these will be fixed in future releases.Great stuff so far!
dustyshot
Reply #14 Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:16 AM
Reply #14 Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:16 AM
Wanna hear something funny? I thought it was my laptop making the beeps when installing the beta. Well, I walked the kitchen to cook me some tator tots to snack on and forgot that my cellphone was in my pocket. I heard the beeps again and thought it was in my head and then pulled out my cellphone and the battery is dying. I have to recharge it. I thought that was funny. So it has nothing to do with windowblinds 5.5 at all.
MSethWeisberg
Reply #17 Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:10 AM
Reply #17 Thursday, November 16, 2006 2:10 AM
Aleatoric:
I can confirm both of your bugs so far.
The explorer dying does happen for me and so does the titlebar button issue in Office 2k7
I can confirm both of your bugs so far.
The explorer dying does happen for me and so does the titlebar button issue in Office 2k7
mrdickie
Reply #18 Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:10 AM
Reply #18 Thursday, November 16, 2006 3:10 AM
I'm running WindowBlinds 5.49(c) on Windows Vista Beta Pre-RC and (so far!) no problems at all. Thanks Stardock! God how i missed WindowBlinds!
mrdickie
Reply #19 Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:41 AM
Reply #19 Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:41 AM
All that this program needs now in terms of users of Windows Vista, is a Vista-exclusive skin. I actually quite like Aero, but there are one or two little bits of it I don't like.
Thanks Stardock for a wonderful program! Any chance of improving Windows Vista Explorer?
Thanks Stardock for a wonderful program! Any chance of improving Windows Vista Explorer?
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #20 Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:55 AM
Reply #20 Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:55 AM
Running this now, looks great
The only problem is, since installing this, I've been getting this funny burning smell 
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Reply #1 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 10:14 PM
Thanks