Stardock releases WindowBlinds 3!
Tuesday, November 13, 2001 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Stardock releases WindowBlinds 3.0!After months of effort Stardock has released its third generation of its popular GUI customization program, WindowBlinds. Version 3 of WindowBlinds adds a host of new features and on Windows XP makes WindowBlinds skins behave as native visual styles. It brings this technology to existing versions of Windows as well. Any Windows user running WindowBlinds 3 will be able to completely transform the Windows GUI to look however they want it to.
Stardock has focused on improving WindowBlinds’ performance to the point that it is, on Windows XP, faster than the bundled visual styles (Luna) when running a similar skin. It does this while using fewer resources and less memory as well. Stardock was able to do this by taking advantage of new hardware acceleration features in video cards (visit http://www.xpbench.com to see if your video card supports XP APIs). WindowBlinds 3 boasts a completely new architecture designed to minimize resource usage while providing new features such as SmartBars, Inclusion lists, Hyperpaint, per skin font/color customization, animated mouse-overs, and more.
For users of Windows 98, ME, 2000 WindowBlinds brings much of the new XP theming architecture over. In the coming months, users with WindowBlinds 3 on those versions of Windows will be able to take advantage of “XP theme aware applications”.
WindowBlinds allows users to customize nearly every part of the Windows GUI. Title bars, scrollbars, start bar, radio buttons, push buttons, etc. It can also add additional buttons to the title bar to enhance productivity such as roll-up buttons, URL buttons, always-on-top buttons, and more. It supports a fairly powerful but simple plugin format so that users can put nearly anything they want onto the Windows title bar.
The complete WindowBlinds 3 guide is at:
https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb3/wb3_guide_final.htm
Users can download it at: http://www.windowblinds.net.
Screenshots:
https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb-nov01.jpg
https://www.stardock.com/temp/wb3galore.gif
https://www.wincustomize.com/images/news/1182001101801PM1.jpg
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Frogboy
Reply #22 Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:47 PM
Reply #22 Saturday, November 17, 2001 10:47 PM
Sorry to hear that, drop me a note ( [email protected]) I'll make sure we resolve those issues. I have some suggestions too - in the performance option turn ON DDB paint. It's off now by default in Win98 to increase compatibility but that's slower.
Galfant
Reply #23 Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:12 PM
Reply #23 Sunday, November 18, 2001 7:12 PM
Are there any instructions for using the XP-WB skins with XP? I just upgraded to XP and had WB3 installed already. I haven't figured out how to use the skins. The SWkins tab in the Display Properties doesn't seem to change anything.
Frogboy
Reply #24 Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:56 PM
Reply #24 Sunday, November 18, 2001 9:56 PM
You need to reinstall WindowBinds 3 so that it's the XP version of it.
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Reply #21 Saturday, November 17, 2001 12:43 PM