WindowBlinds 6.1 Now Available

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News

Stardock is excited to announce the release of WindowBlinds 6.1 today.  WindowBlinds is the easiest, and safest way to change the complete look and feel of both Windows Vista and XP by applying one of thousands of visual styles that are available.

These visual styles can change just about every element of the Windows user interface from the Start menu, task bar, title bar, push buttons, scrollbars, and nearly everything else in Windows.

The WindowBlinds 6.1 update is available to current customers as a free update, and users can upgrade either through Stardock Central or the Impulse preview.  The WindowBlinds 6.1 release includes the following updates:

  • Several maintenance and performance tweaks.
  • Option to force start button to the middle of skins.
  • Explorer background feature.

The Explorer Background feature allows users to change the background of their explorer, along with the background color and opacity.  There are 30 different background textures to choose from, including a "no texture" option that lets you set just the color and transparency of the Explorer background.

WindowBlinds has a free download available for evaluation, and is $19.95 for the full enhanced version.  WindowBlinds is also part of the Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancements.

Link: WindowBlinds

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WebGizmos
Reply #21 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 8:56 PM
Neil....after I did the recent update and rebooted I couldn't get WB Config to open up after several tries. Just restored my system and every things back to normal. Not sure what caused that...never happened before. I didn't uninstall anything before the update and updated through SDC.

No biggy though...seems the cool updates are for vista only anyway.

HauntingMorgana
Reply #22 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 9:20 PM
Hello Neil- I did not uninstall the other build first. Just let sdc do the update, and it rebooted. I'm running XP though.

Wet Monkey
Reply #23 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 9:32 PM
Thanks much Neil, that did the trick. I should have asked this question months ago. Thanks again.

VistArtXPosed
Reply #24 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 10:28 PM
Does WindowBlinds 6.1 finally support Explorer Backgrounds in XP? Because although Skinstudio 6 has an explorer background feature, it fails to work in XP, and only works with Vista. I should check this out.

vStyler
Reply #25 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 10:36 PM
I couldn't get WB Config to open up after several tries
Happened to me too... I reinstall wb and it seems to work fine now..

zakai1369
Reply #26 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 11:17 PM
updated without a hitch

WebGizmos
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 7, 2008 11:45 PM
Happened to me too... I reinstall wb and it seems to work fine now.
Thanks V....Maybe I'll give that a try.

TYCUS
Reply #28 Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:16 AM
Option to force start button to the middle of skins.


Images............, IIIMAGES PLEASE!!!!

..or i wont update   

Philly0381
Reply #29 Thursday, May 8, 2008 12:36 AM
The WindowBlinds 6.1 update is available to current customers as a free update, and users can upgrade either through Stardock Central or the Impulse preview.


I have switched to using Impulse for downloading updates, the WB update has not shown up there yet, it is showing up in SDC.

Do I cause myself problems by using SDC to download this update or should I just wait for it to show up in Impulse? Or because of the difference between SDC and Impulse do I all ready have the update and don't know it?


The fix was to clear out the XML folder, close Impulse, restart Impulse and the WB update was there.  

Bebi Bulma
Reply #30 Thursday, May 8, 2008 3:39 AM
Option to force start button to the middle of skins.

Images............, IIIMAGES PLEASE!!!! ..or i wont update

Was gonna say that myself. Pics 4 proof.

Nimbin
Reply #31 Thursday, May 8, 2008 4:52 AM
i also had the problem of not being able to open the config window after updating, opened SDC and it reported that windowblinds wasn't even installed, i ran the update again, rebooted again and everything went back to normal. It's now reporting the correct version in the system info tab on WBconfig to. yay

Brimo
Reply #32 Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:07 AM
I wonder why the standalone setup file is so much larger (at 23 Mb) than the one for version 6.02 (at 17 Mb)? There doesn't seem to be that much more stuff in it.

vStyler
Reply #33 Thursday, May 8, 2008 5:57 AM
i also had the problem of not being able to open the config window after updating, opened SDC and it reported that windowblinds wasn't even installed, i ran the update again, rebooted again and everything went back to normal. It's now reporting the correct version in the system info tab on WBconfig to. yay
This is exactly what happened in my case also.

Lantec
Reply #34 Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:32 AM
i also had the problem of not being able to open the config window after updating, opened SDC and it reported that windowblinds wasn't even installed, i ran the update again, rebooted again and everything went back to normal. It's now reporting the correct version in the system info tab on WBconfig to. yay


Updated thru Impulse...no problems. Seems that everyone reporting this issue updated thru SDC. Just an observation.

angus1949
Reply #35 Thursday, May 8, 2008 8:07 AM
Updated thru Impulse...no problems. Seems that everyone reporting this issue updated thru SDC. Just an observation.
I updated through Impulse (Slowwww) first and wbconfig.exe could not be found. So I ran SDC and the update was there. I did the update through SDC and WB launched fine.

HauntingMorgana
Reply #36 Thursday, May 8, 2008 1:22 PM
Update- Tried this yet again. Same issue. Rebooted, but then let it install through sdc (although the files/folder was there anyway) After 2nd install, rebooted, wbconfig in sys tray was able to start...but.... All of my darned skins were lost! I had 4 total after all of that.

VistArtXPosed
Reply #37 Thursday, May 8, 2008 6:26 PM

Explorer Backgrounds finally work in XP, but there some limitations. You can only choose the images which came with the program. Unlike Vista, which can use any BMP or PNG image. I tried applying an image for the first time in XP, and my computer rebooted automatically without warning. After rebooting, voila, it's there.

Now Windowblinds should not only allow ANY image to be used as an explorer background, but also allow other image file types to be supported such as JPG and TIFF. I hope to see an enhancement to this feature in the future.


sixshot
Reply #38 Friday, May 9, 2008 12:43 AM
Well after a few tries I got WB6.1 to run. I ran the update from Impulse and that didn't go exactly as planned. I told it that I wanna reboot later, which I usually do with any programs or updates that needs a reboot. So after manually reboot, WB tells me I gotta reboot again. Did that. Same thing happens. I tell it to go to Process mode or something and it doesn't work. I uninstalled it, reboot, installed WB6.1, and it runs. Then rebooted once more to make sure everything runs and is loaded/installed correctly and it seems to be smooth sailing from there. Now I have another problem... but that's for a different product altogether so I'll post that elsewhere. I can't comment on the new features in 6.1 but so far so good. Now if I can just get Windows to load my wallpaper correctly... (I want my Horo background dang it!)

bilbo1930
Reply #39 Friday, May 9, 2008 4:42 PM
Option to force start button to the middle of skins. Like vista default skin, if use doublesized taskbar, not overlay.....
How to set that?

snake108
Reply #40 Saturday, May 10, 2008 2:37 PM
my advise on this latest update is to stear well clear of it.i experienced most of the above problems,but in the end had to do a restore to get W/Bs to work again.Not very impressed with SDC at the moment.

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