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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vStyler
Reply #42 Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:35 PM
Reply #42 Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:35 PM
New Start button feature on my current WIP. Great Job Neil 
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bilbo1930
Reply #43 Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:36 PM
your current wip awesome !
Reply #43 Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:36 PM
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your current wip awesome !
Rutabaga64
Reply #44 Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:29 AM
Reply #44 Sunday, May 11, 2008 9:29 AM
This was not a fun upgrade.
I did the upgrade through SDC, and I lost wbconfig. I figured that had to be some kind of bug, so I checked this post and found out I wasn't alone. I opened SDC again and saw that it showed that WB wasn't even installed, so I installed it, then rebooted. When the WB configuration window opened after rebooting, I'd apparently lost all of my skins, only 4 were showing. I was just about beside myself, because I had so many skins, and I didn't want to spend hours reinstalling them.
So I decided to take a chance and I uninstalled WB, rebooted, then reinstalled WB. The good news is that this install was much different from the first, it took a lot longer and seemed to be doing everything it needed to do. Then I rebooted again, the configuration window came up, and voila, all of my skins were now visible. But none of them would load right...I still basically had Windows Classic showing, no matter what I did and which skin I tried applying.
I had a moment of wondering if this upgrade was making WB useful for only Vista (I am a stubborn gal who's holding onto XP until I have no choice), so decided to do a System Restore and roll everything back. I only had a System Checkpoint to choose from, so I told System Restore to roll back to that checkpoint. When it rebooted, it told me it couldn't restore anything because there had been no changes to my computer.
But suddenly WB was working just fine. I opened SDC and saw that I did indeed have the most recent version installed. So breathed a sigh of relief, and it looks like everything is okay.
But boy oh boy, this upgrade was a MESS to get through. Other people who see this thread before upgrading might want to wait until the bugs are worked out.
snake108
Reply #45 Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:14 PM
Reply #45 Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:14 PM
Rutabaga64,I agree with all you say about your attempts to upgrade to this latest version of W/Bs,i went through all that trauma trying to upgrade on my vista PC. I dont see many replies from stardock over these issues, its obvious from the posts that all is not well with this upgrade. I second your closing comments about not upgrading till all the bugs are worked out.
ALMonty
Reply #46 Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:44 PM
Do you have Norton antivirus? Norton has to be turned off for the system restore to work. The new Norton protects itself and doesn't allow any changes to be made. If you have Norton let me know through this thread and I'll write how to turn it off in case you need to use system restore again.
Reply #46 Sunday, May 11, 2008 3:44 PM
When it rebooted, it told me it couldn't restore anything because there had been no changes to my computer
Do you have Norton antivirus? Norton has to be turned off for the system restore to work. The new Norton protects itself and doesn't allow any changes to be made. If you have Norton let me know through this thread and I'll write how to turn it off in case you need to use system restore again.
jazzymjr
Reply #47 Friday, May 16, 2008 5:36 AM
Reply #47 Friday, May 16, 2008 5:36 AM
Man...this was a bear of an update! First, I updated on my laptop...went off without a hitch. So, I thought....yea! Then I did the update on my desktop...what a mess! The first go around, all I had was the original windows classic and a message that the wbconfig.exe couldn't be found. All of my skins were lost in action. I rebooted a few times to no avail. So, then I decide to restore my previous version. At, first, it wouldn't restore...but, eventually, I got it to restore. Had to reboot several times to get my blind to display properly. When all was well, I thought I would try again to update. So, I went to SDC and it showed that 6.1 was already installed...but, in wbconfig, it showed 6.03. So, I bit the bullet, and unistalled WB altogether and rebooted. Then came back to SDC, and re-installed WB. The skins were all there, so I thought..yea! Well, applied a skin, and all I got was the classic version of it. So, I rebooted again, and this time, the skin loaded properly! Whew!
I sure hope Stardock takes a look at this, and fixes whatever is broken with the update process!
jazzymjr
Reply #48 Friday, May 16, 2008 6:17 AM
Reply #48 Friday, May 16, 2008 6:17 AM
So, I rebooted again, and this time, the skin loaded properly! Whew! I sure hope Stardock takes a look at this, and fixes whatever is broken with the update process!
Well, I spoke too soon! When I went to change to a different skin, it crashed my computer! So, I have gone back to the previous version of WB 6...and, will not try to update again until Stardock fixes whatever is wrong here.
HauntingMorgana
Reply #49 Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:11 PM
Reply #49 Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:11 PM
Still having issues myself with this. My above post explains.
Basically....update wb, then wbconfig cannot be found. Cannot be started,etc.
So, reboot, redo, then it can be found, but then all of my blinds/skins are missing, as in gone.
Uninstall and then reinstall, same thing.
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Reply #41 Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:01 PM
after reinstall, figured that, cool feature